No Sound on MSI K8TNeo2 - $$ If Fixed

Hey guys I'm in dire need of some help.

I have a computer I sold to a friend for 200$ and can't get the sound to work and I feel like a jerk. It worked fine for me for 4 years then I get to his house and I can't get any sound to come out whatsoever.

The only thing I did before giving it to him was hookup the front LED button and reset button.

Specs:

MSI K8T Neo2
Athlon64 3700+
2 x 512 DDR400
X800XTPE
80G SATA Hard Drive
Silverstone Case

I am using intergrated sound and got the latest Realtek 97 drivers. Have rebooted and tryed all ports on the back with no luck. Went to device manager it is enabled, says its working and has no ? or ! next to it. Checked bios and made sure the intergrated was enabled and it was also.

ANYONE WHO CAN HELP GETS 10$ PAYPALED TO THEM if it works....

Thanks for any help,
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Any Ideas.... I've tried everything. I wonder if just buying a PCI soundcard would fix the problem...

I had the same problem and it was due to a power surge in the I/O port that also took out a wireless mouse that was charging and a memory stick to fix the problem i also tried all of the above
so try different speakers, if you have an internal speaker you may have pulled it out when hooking up the LED jumpers if that dosent work buy a S.B Audigy sorry i cant think of many causes to this phenomenon at the moment ill check back if i turf something up

I see no reason why a PCI card shouldn't fix it. That said, try disabling the detection in the Realtek drivers, make sure nothing is muted, try a different driver... the usual stuff, unfortunately, things I bet you've already tried. Also try uninstalling from the device manager, disabling the sound in the BIOS, restart, enable it in BIOS, try again...

Not terribly helpful, I realize.

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If the BIOS has an option to reset the IRQ autoconfig stuff, do that and reinstall the AC97 drivers.

Would going from my 5.1 surround sound speakers to his cheap 2.1 speakers affect anything? I wouldn't think so...

the speakers should not matter but you could always try a pair of headphones. if they don't work I say toss a pci sound card in there (even a soundblaster Live! would be fine.)