Windows 7: Realtek HD Audio/Motherboard Not recognizing any Audio Devices.

Hello,

I'm gonna try and lay out my problem very simply, and then tell you what I have tried/done.

PROBLEM: When I plug in Headphones, I can not hear anything, and in the playback devices, nothing is shown to be plugged in. This goes the same for my other audio device which is a bose sound dock (for ipod but I connect using a 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable)



Okay, so here goes. When I first build the system and installed windows, i wasn't thinking much of the sound as i was installing updates and video card drivers and what-not. I did, at some point, connect the bose to the computer using the 3.5mm jack on the front panel of the computer. It worked fine, I heard the little sounds the computer makes when logging on. Since then I have had troubles with my network card and ran windows update and various other things.



Now no sound works at all. When I realized this I tried:
-Changing the actual front panel cable that is connected to the mobo from hd audio to ac 97 (and changing the setting in the bios)
-Searched for many hours online trying many different solutions such as:
-updating drivers
-rolling back drivers

Other things i've tried:
-system restore
-update bios
-install audio drivers from mobo disc

I have moved past being extremely frustrated and I now just dont know what else to do.

I would greatly appreciate any feedback what so ever :)
Ask me any questions you want

Try this.

Nvidia.pdf

Then this.

I don't have a nvidia graphics card. This won't work for me :/ (I tried anyways and the search resulted in no matches)

Thanks anyways.

I took a couple screenshots to show you guys what im looking at. Maybe it will help.

Does no one have any input on this at all? OR any other forum I can go post this? I still have not resolved the issue.

Still nothing??

I notice your speakers are shown as not plugged in.

Do you have speakers and can you currently get any sound from them, as opposed to headphones?

I dont technically have any speakers. I have had sound, but I had only connected a 3.5m to 3.5m jack to (these.

This was early on in my setup process. My guess is that through updating something somewhere it cause the sound to get messed up.

The only thing i was trying to fix at the time was this wireless pci card. It wasnt working. I solved that problem when i found out the card was way too old.