No sound from PC. Motherboard fried? (Solved)

It looks like I've come into some bad luck. What seemed to be a working Asus Xonar DG for a while, with occasional series of it not being detected here and there.. I came home last night to no sound from my PC.

I've tried using Onboard Sound again to no avail. I've checked everything from the mute button, to volume levels, disabling/enabling onboard sound in BIOS, installing/uninstalling drivers.

I'm using an AMD Asus motherboard and it comes with the VIA HD audio driver, so I am guessing I have no choice but to use those, correct? Well, those do not work either.

I've tried using headphone and speakers, both functional and working properly. Still no sound.

I was just playing video games yesterday and listening to music just fine, no issues. So, is my motherboard sound chip dead? I just want to make sure I rule out everything before I buy a new CPU and Mobo. I'll be switching to Intel CPU/Mobo this time because I just don't want to deal with VIA audio any more.

I also did a clean Windows Install, and that didn't solve the problem.

End of the road for me?

What seemed to be a working Asus Xonar DGElann2008

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]What seemed to be a working Asus Xonar DGspittis

It's a VIA problem I have the same issue on my AMD board, Windows doesn't know what it is, The motherboard drivers doesn't know what it is and even VIA's own drivers don't know what it is. Just a crappy solution AMD board vendors are doing on their boards. I ended up putting a old sound blaster in which worked surprisingly under Windows 7. xXDrPainXx

Totally up to you on whether to buy a new sound card or a different motherboard. Either jam more things into the board or buy a new board and hopefully buy one that doesn't have VIA HD crap audio. xXDrPainXx

THank you so much for your help DrPain and Spittis. I really appreciate you coming back to check on my status. :)