pci and onboard sound all gone...

[ksizzle]

so i plugged my receiver/speakers into the wrong hole on my soundcard... instant hard crash. rebooted to no sound device installed. took out pci card thinking the onboard would still work, but no. device mgr shows no audio device on high definition audio bus installed. tried reinstalling everything, completely uninstalling, downloading the drivers, searched for something to do, but no matter what the hd audio bus isnt on and theres no sound shown as being installed.

did i really blow out my soundcard? :/ wtf is going on? thx

edit: xp sp3, audigy2 old card pci

 

[nickbits]

you plugged what into what?

 

[ksizzle]

rca(?) splitter from receiver into minijack, plugged the mini end into the soundcard, possibly on mic or line in? never plugged it into the mobo built in sound jack but that wont now either... speakers are still working, just not the soundcard or anything

 

[corkyg]

red=mic; green=spkr; blue=line in. Plugging speakers into the wrong port would not blow the soundcard. You must have had something else on that line that had power. RCA splitter from Rcvr? Sounds like possibly what should have been Line In. That could be an amplified signal.

 

[RebateMonger]

That's pretty strange. Folks have been plugging the wrong things into the Speaker, Mic, and Line-In/Line-Out on sound cards for 25 years now and I've never heard of a problem. If you plugged the receiver's amplified OUTPUT into any of those sound card jacks, that could be a problem.

Also, it's hard to visualize how an overload would blow both the Audigy2 AND the onboard sound. You'd think something that hot would take out the whole motherboard, not just an unused onboard sound system.

Do either the Audigy2 or the onboard sound systems show up in the Device Manager? If the onboard system doesn't show up at all, is it enabled in the BIOS?

 

[ksizzle]

its def coming from the CD input on the receiver which is why i think its so strange... :/

the audigy card is not showing up anywhere, incl device mgr. and the drivers were uninstalled. when i go into sound control panel, says no sound device installed.

under sound, video and game controllers, the 'audio device on hd audio bus' is missing but thats it...

edit: o and yeah, its enabled under bios

 

[RebateMonger]

How about making a Linux Live (Ubuntu is fine) CD/DVD and booting to that? See if Ubuntu recognizes your sound hardware. If they don't show up in Linux either.....