i recently spent a bit of time on my computer and got in a hole, firstly put my tv card in & ENABLED Overclocking in bios... both would bring windows to a crushing hault via blue screen, "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" or "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" i then removed the tv card, but kept getting the blue screen so i went into Device Manager and removed and disabled it and the pci slots? i then had complications with the sound card, i uninstalled and reinstalled the sound drivers NUMEROUS times, and i accidently removed/altered some of the sound thingys in device manager also like Mulitmedia Audio Controller which has never seemed to reappear.. i then took the sound card out and enabled integrated sound via bios, i then installed the drivers for that but after reboot there was STILL no "Audio device", what do i do next? or how do i go about getting sound back without reformatting(last_resort)? i miss my musical lifestyle.CjB.......You could TRY using your system restore .......restore back to the DAY before you made the initial changes .


dl65  Also, do you have the MOST updated drivers?

[glb]Flame[/glb]i went to the MSI website, and downloaded the altest sound drivers & even via 4in1 drivers, & isntalled, still nothing, cant get sound, another thing was i disabled plug &  play O.S in bios for a shortwhile too but re-enabled, that wouldnt matter right, also system restore wasnt enabled!! so cant go back ot the usual heh re-boot pc and hold down the f8 and chose last good config.......or if that fails type dxdiag in the run box and test for sound??what error does it report..