OK WELL I've done just about everything anyones ever told me to do to fix this problem.

the other DAY my computer was attacked by a virus, i got RID of the virus, cleaned out everything it did, that's fine, now everythings working but the sound.

I noticed when i went to play a game id bought, it was rather agitating. Ive attempted to update my drivers, reinstall drivers, and so on (on-board sound on a ASUS M2N SLI mobo). I have also ran the services.msc and made sure that windows audio was started, and is started AUTOMATICALLY, even set it to restart 3 times after it fails. The C-Media CM6501 Like Sound Device Driver IS installed on my computer, from disk, and even tried from the site, It is there, and in Properties, it even lists audio devices, MIDI Devices and Instruments, And Mixer Devices All which i have chosen to use on this device.

I have also tried installing Realtek Drivers, which are also up to date.... I am at a huge loss at this point and i have no idea what to do to get my sound working, and seeing as i use my computer as a gaming rig, sound is rather important to my gaming experience.

Any ideas or help would be much appreciated, as i have been going absolutely crazy attempting to figure out just what could have went wrong here.