Sound not working...

[apHytHiaTe]

OK this is a friend of a sister of a friend kinda deal... The person's sound aint working. I'll let him\her do the talking

''i reformatted my pc today and reinstalled everything except my sound card won't work even though it worked this morning before the format... it's a crappy on board sound card and after i download every possible driver for it.. it won't accept them.. and the one driver that it did accept did no good for it... i also ran ones that came with the motherboard cd drivers and they havent worked either... i deleted and readded the hardware in device manager but that hasn't seemed to work, ive checked the BIOS settings and they all seem to be fine.. theres probably more ive done but those are the main things...''

I suggested newer bios and update chipset drivers... What else can he\she do? Oh and i'm still working on finding out the system specs.

thx in advance

EDIT: The person has already updated the bios.

 

[apHytHiaTe]

Specs are as follows

motherboard = ECS K7S5A 1.0

proc = 1.7ghz + AMD athlon

256 meg of RAM

sound card is on board

C-Media AC97 Audio Device

MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device

 

[apHytHiaTe]

Hello? Anybody home?