Windows XP Refuses To read my audio hardware

[justanotherday]

For the past two day's i've had problems with Windows Detecting my Sound Card. When I boot my computer my BIOS gives me a message confirming that it detected my Sound Card. But when I'm in Windows, despite the fact that I have the drivers installed/reinstallled it claims I have no audio hardware installed. So I tryed 3 things.

1. Switched my Creative Sound Blaster Live! to my Creative Audigy 2.
2. Unistalled SB Live's drivers, rebooted, installed Audigy 2's drivers, rebooted, Still Nothing
2. So I assumed it may be my hardware slots even though it's a new motherboard! So I once again rebooted, went into my BIOS configuration and enabled my onboard sound, still nothing!

Im currently running Windows XP SP1. If you have any recommendations or question please reply...
:music: = :|

 

[mikecel79]

What motherboard is it? Do you see anything in Device Manager with yellow exclamation points or red x's through it?

 

[justanotherday]

I use a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 v2.0 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394), an there is not exclamations nor red x's within device manager....

 

[mikecel79]

Do they show up in Device Manager at all? When the machine POSTs it should list all your PNP hardware. Do you see them in the list?

 

[justanotherday]

It shows a listing which is:

-Sound, video and game controls:
-Audio Codecs
-Creative Game Port
-Legacy Audio Drivers
-Legacy Video Capture Devices
-Media Control Devices
-NVIDIA(R) nForce2(TM) Audio Codec Interface (Onboard Sound)

I looked in the 'Other Device' Branch and it does have an exclamation point next to it... for my NVIDIA(R) nForce2(TM) Audio Device (Onboard Sound)

What is PNP hardware?