Sound Card De-De-De-De-Dead??

[pillainp]

Hi all,

Here's the deal:

I have a SoundBlaster Live DE! 5.1 sound card, as can be seen from my sig. Now this card has been working fine and giving me really great audio. I have been using the KX Project's drivers for this card, and they are really good.

A few days ago, however, I changed out the PC stereo speakers (Creative SB-S20 stereo) connected to the front audio port (the rear port is occupied by my Stereo Player and it's speakers), and tried attaching a pair of Bose speakers that my bro-in-law brought down from England, just to see how they sounded.
Since then the SB Live! card has been making a noise that is just like when you say "De-De-De-" in the title of this post.

I have tried removing it, cleaning the drivers up using Driver cleaner, and reinstalling it on both the same and in another PCI slot.

I have had no luck getting this card to work. It just keeps making that sound all the time. It does not matter which drivers I use (KX Project, Creative's drivers that came with the card, or Windows XP's native drivers for this card).

I am therefore currently using the motherboard's onboard sound.

Is this card fried? If not, what else might be wrong with it that can maybe be fixed?

All help appreciated,

NPP

[fatboyjim]

Sounds like it's a goner, have you tried it in another machine?

Jim