Dead sound card?

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

So I had a power outage tonight and so I had to reset the CMOS on my computer. So I did that, reset all my settings and then when I got into Windows, instead of having sound I get this loud and constant hissing/static from my speakers. I reseated the card, and tried another PCI slot and still same problem. So I uninstalled my drivers, used Driver cleaner, reinstalled drivers and I still get the same static.

The card is an Audigy 2 ZS, speakers are Logitech Z-5500 in analog mode. Is my sound card just dead or could there possibly be another explanation?

 

[rasczak]

have you tried another set of speakers on this card? also try swapping this card out on to another machine to rule out the card and machine.

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

I tried it with my headphones and get the same static. Will try it on my other machine . . .