PC audio is gone - any fixes?

My old man was messing around on my PC and somehow managed to wipe out my sound driver (ask God how...) so now that little gray speaker icon is totally gone from the bottom right corner... I can't hear anything at all, whether it's an MP3 (Winamp) or just some movies on DVD... Any chance you guys could suggest some ways to fix this mess??

PS - I do have this one thing: Realtek HD Audio Manager and if I dig through some of its settings I can actually hear stuff... but everything else is just dead silence???

Thanks for understanding and for any help you can give 👍

Control panel ---- Sounds and audio Devices, go ahead and check there to make sure you didn't accidentally leave the Mute box checked.

Noah Miller6 said:Check the Control panel ---- Sounds and audio, just make sure you haven't accidentally checked the Mute box.

No checkmark here—it actually says "No Audio Device" right at the top...

Give it another shot and try reinstalling everything related to your sound card...
First, run an uninstallation, then perform a clean install.

Every time I check the properties, everything says it's running optimally... Look, I'm no tech wizard, so I really don't want to go through the whole uninstall and reinstall nightmare just to end up breaking something else...

(If I end up deleting the program entirely, can I just just download it and install it all over again?)

Well, if you actually have the disc, then obviously you can install it... and if you don't, just grab it online and install it that way.

Noah Miller6 said:well if you've got the CD, then obviously you can install it... and even if you don't, just grab it online and install it that way

don't have the disc... any chance you could drop a link where I can download it? thanks

ruggedfox28 said:I don't have a disc drive... can you drop a link where I can download this? Thanks.

Which version of Windows are we talking about here? XP or Vista ???

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOU...ver-R164.shtml

Windows XP

http://www.softwarepatch.com/utiliti...ver-vista.html

Windows Vista

Man, thanks for the help with XP... just got everything running again, sounds good now...

(this is the second time you've had to "fix" my PC—first was that Windows Genuine issue)

I owe you a drink!

Thanks again 👍

Maybe I'll make it out to San Francisco once I get there... if I ever do. Honestly, those locals in the Bay Area kind of intimidate me. heheheheheeh