Asus P5KC with incorporated Realtek ALC 883 died?

MrSnipyCat

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Hello all.
2 Days i was having some graphics card problems (Nvidia GeForce 8800) with my computer, my graphics card apparently fried and it seemed it took my pci-e slots with it but after putting in a backup graphics card (Nvidia GeForce GT 220) and a CMOS reset the pci-e slots started working again.

Now to my problem, today when i turned my pc on, my on-board soundboard (Realtek ALC 883) stopped working, it was "working" according to windows but no sound was coming out of my headphones but when i unplugged and plugged my headphones from the jack i could hear that little static sound that you normally hear when you plug something to a jack, meaning it was working, so i restarted my computer, when i logged back into my user this appears and the troubleshooter says everything fine and no other error appear.

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And i also had the realtek driver installed so that wasn't the problem because it was working the day before, and i also thought it could have something to do with the problem i had 2 days ago so i did another CMOS reset, still not working, reinstalled Windows 10, and its still not working, but now when i troubleshoot the problem this pops up when it didn't before the Windows reinstall:

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It says that the hardware changes not being detected got fixed but every time i troubleshoots/restart the pc and re-troubleshoot that pops up saying it got fixed when it obviously isn't...

When i also try to add it manually to the device manager this error pops up:

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So is there a way to fix this problem , or did my on-board card actually died overnight?

My Hardware, and as you can see it didn't detect a soundboard:

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Solution
That first one is pretty good, better than ordinary, cheap sound blaster anyway. Other ones are not bad either. All windows past XP recognize them and use without special drivers. If you use any other sound card make sure you turn inbuilt one off in BIOS.
If you have HDMI capabilities you can also use something like this: http://www.ebay.com/bhp/hdmi-audio-splitter

MrSnipyCat

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Are these usb sound cards as good as pci internal ones?

I was thinking about buying one of those ebay unbranded copy's of creative sound blaster that only costs like 10€ so i could have sound back