no sound hardware found?

[legit]

my pc sound was working happily, when one of my mates pc had problems. We swappd HDD's and video cards, to test his equipment. Then i decided to put everything back to the way it was. I did so and now my pc does not find and sound devices. I uninstalled and reinstalled the officail drivers. I formated my HDD and still no sound found? (i use on board sound, giga-byte drivers)

any ideas?

[essexman]

is it disabled in the bios??
sounds it, as windows is not finding it.
only other thing is buy a sound card.

[legit]

my mate had a spare sound card around so i am using that, but why did that happen?

[essexman]

you might of changed something in the bios or you might have disabled it in device manager.
or just faulty

[dooka]

HI
I'm Think that when u swapped ur HDD ur friend has a virus (some viruses attacks hardware and eleminate it) like what happend soon to me my HDD was destroyed.

[Random]

This thread is over 6 months old, i'm quite sure legit has solved his problem by now. ;)

[wardude13]

Lol this is a really delayed post.Are there viruses that can really diable your sound card? Because today when i turned on my computer the sound card had disappeared in windows. I checked the sound and audio device properties button and it said there was no sound card installed. I went to windows update and all it updated was security stuff (even though Security Update for Windows XP (KB913446) failed):disgust: I restarted the computer and turned off my external usb drive. And then the sound card worked :artysmil weird huh? so was it turning off the external hard drive or installing not even relavent drivers that fixed it?

[Random]

There will be viruses out there that can do that, its hard to say if it was a virus or the external HD, you should have kept it turned on and they saw what happened.