alright heres my problem.... my friend comes to me and says his computer wont play sounds anymore.. and asks me to fix it for him. he has a DFI NB73-EA motherboard that has intergrated sound when i go to control panel it says that there is no audio device and under the audio tab it says the defualt device is modem#0 line playback... i go to device manager and it doesnt show an audio device nore does it show any conflicts it just has this under it Audio Codecs, Legacy audio drivers, Legacy video captre devices, Media control devices MPU-401 Compatale MIDI device Standard game port, Unimodem half-duplex Audio Device, and Video codecs so lets start out with all the things that ive done. first i tried system restore to a time when the audio workerd...nothing then we tried reinstalling the drivers from the motherboards website still nothing... then i used the drivers cd that came with the computer and still got nothing.... so then we decided to completly wipe his hard drive, reformat and install a fresh copy of windows XP...still nothing ive done all the windows updates gone to the motherboards manufactures website and dled all of those updates apparently its a realtek ac97 audio driver that i need since thats whats on the disk that came with the computer but im not completly sure since this isnt my computer..... any help would be greatly appreciated ive been working on this for the past couple of days and havent gotten anywhere and are getting very frustrated at this point.....