Has my onboard sound gone?

[Re83L]

Hi guys, I recently bought a new pc, and have been getting lots of problems with it (most of which was fix-able in the end )

Anyway, I have a partition with my old Windows XP on it and then a partition with Windows Vista...
I have just finished installing updates on Vista, and when I restarted, I had no sound, only "white noise" (lots of it, whenever sound was supposed to play)..

So : I thought it must've been the updates, so I re-installed Vista...
NO Change...
So I tried booting up in my old XP installation, still the same problem...

I live in Bloem, but bought my pc in Jhb, so I have to be certain that something's wrong before I send my pc up...

Is there any way of knowing whether my onboard sound is broken??
How would I know for sure?
(I went into my Control Panel=>System=>Device Manager , but found no ewrror there, everything seemed to be working fine???)

 

[XCalibre]

reinstall the drivers on xp and test it again. Uninstall it first though

 

[Re83L]

Did so, still the same problem...
It's doing it on both of my OS's, even after uninstalling/re-installing my sound drivers...
And it's even doing so after re-installing my whole Vista OS..

If it helps, my MB is an ASUS M2NE-SLi

 

[killadoob]

i'll be honest with you, now is your chance to move away from onboard sound and get yourself a soundblaster audigy

cheap about 250

you could try resetting your bios and see if that helps if not get the board swopped out

 

[Re83L]

Yeah, have been thinking about getting myself a SoundBlaster for a while now...
The only problem is : Tomorrow night's my first AGASA Clan match (COD2) and I need sound... So tomorrow I'm gonna settle for anything I can find in Bloem...
But anyways, I'll have to get my board swopped around in any case, I just hope that my problem is indeed sound