Realtek ALC880 - No audio device

I have a jetway Motherboard - M2A692-GDG.having a sound card Realtek ALC880.It is not working,when i go to Control Panel,Sounds and Audio devices,its says i have No Audio Device.I have installed recent drivers,from the motherboard manufacturers page.I have installed High Definition Audio Codecs.Still my sound card is not working.But when i put my speakers in other ports,it makes a crackling noise,which makes me feel,my sound card is working properly.


Any suggestions,i think i have tried every possible driver combination,obviously removing the previous drivers with driver cleaner tool.This problem came into effect after i reinstalled Windows XP,SP3 yesterday.


Hope anyone can give me suggestions.

I am sorry if i mentioned sound card,its integrated with the Motherboard.I am starting to feel that it got damaged.

You reinstalled windows, did you also use your motherboard CD to reinstall chipset drivers and sound drivers?

have you trieded updating directx ?

I'm running Windows 7 as well and only recently started having a problem like that. At first, the audio device disappeared completely, so naturally, I turned off my computer for a while and started it back up. The device reappeared, but to my dissatisfaction, no sound was coming out of my speakers. Everything appeared to work fine, except that I heard nothing, maybe some white noise. Upon restarting again, the device was again missing from the "Sound, Video and game controllers" section of Device Manager.

After some sleuthing I discovered my "High Definition Audio Controller" was appearing under System Devices... wtf.

I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, disabling and reenabling in BIOS, as well as seeing if it works in Fedora 11 like it used to.. wouldn't even work there.

I'd say it's pretty safe to assume that if it doesn't work in another Operating System, that I've encountered hardware failure. It's not like I can take it out and test it in another system, so I'm at the point where I'm going to buy a PCI audio card.

My suggestion to you is to download the Fedora 11 cd, you can run a Live Session (it means you can temporarily install the operating system to your RAM only, use it without affecting your harddrive) and see if your soundcard works.