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Did I fry my motherboard or what?

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hclpfan

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So the other day I had formatted and was reinstalling my TV tuner card when I had a bit of an accident. I hadn't fully screwed in the tuner card and it is a heavy card and it slipped and was leaning on my sound card. Long story short I smelt some burning and quickly powered off my PC. The computer then wouldn't power on at all when i pressed the power button. Simply turning the PSU off and back on fixed that thought and I was able to boot up just fine so I thought everything was ok, however, I no longer have any sound. I thought i must have fried the sound card so i tried installing my onboard drivers but couldn't get that to work either. After trying a few different options I ended up completely reformatting this morning just in hopes that it was software related but there was still no sound. I also just borrowed my friends sound card because he has the exact same one as me (Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS) and tried booting up with it and there is still no sound. So now I'm assuming it must have something to do with my motherboard but I'm surprised that I would be able to boot up and do everything just fine on my computer except for sound if i fried part of my motherboard. Anyone have any ideas?

P.S. Yes I have tried different PCI slots
 
First thing to try is verify the onboard audio is enabled in the BIOS. Then make sure it's the primary sound device in Windows.

Next, verify a different PCI device will work in those slots.
 
Well I have tested other cards in the slot since the incident and they work just fine so it can't be the slot. Also, the onboard audio is set to Auto so I believe it should have worked if it was going to.
 
So heres a quick update on the things I've tried with no luck:

- Moving the sound card to a different slot
- Removing the sound card and using onboard
- Reinstalling the sound card drivers
- Borrowing a friends sound card thats the exact same model as mine and using it
- Formatting and the absolute only thing i do after the format is install my onboard drivers and try to listen to music
- Booting into an Ubuntu live CD to see if it was a windows thing

It seems that no matter what I do I simply can't get my sound to work. Ideas?
 
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