Sound Card Woes (resolved)

The other night I was running windows update, and noticed that there was an audio driver listed on there. Now normally I don't download drivers from windowsupdate, but I had a lapse in judgement and went for it. I checked it, started the downloading, and went to bed. This morning, the installation for the driver had hung at 99% and the browser window was frozen. I killed it, and tried to play an audio file. No sound. I head to device manager. Uhoh, I think -- it was trying to install a driver for my on board sound, which conflicted with my SB Live! Now, anything I try to do in device manager pertaining to my SB Live! or onboard MMC driver results in a freeze. I can't disable, roll back, or update. I tried installing the creative drivers -- it says I don't have a creative card installed.

I'm at the end of my rope here. Any suggestions are welcome.

Try uninstalling them, if that doesn't work, try doing it in safe mode.

Looks like the installer changed the On Board Audio setting in the BIOS. I switched it back to Auto, and we're golden.

Good, glad to hear you got it working :)