3.5mm jacks for sound card borked.
 

Alright, I've been dealing with my usb headset for a while now, specifically because I can get sound and my mic was working on it until the usb headset was busted.

The reason I went to usb is because the two audio jacks for mic and sound on my motherboard have completely been screwed over, and I don't know why. I -may- have deleted some files or something to that extent when I was messing around trying to get my usb sound to work, but for the life of me, I can NOT get that part of my motherboard activated again.

I reformatted my computer, fresh start, everything wiped clean. After Xp was reinstalled, I installed ALL of my motherboards drivers, and my other drivers. This time around, however, I noticed that my audio that was there last time (realtek, which I've tried to redownload AGAIN AND AGAIN but everytime I do the .exe files after i install the realtek audio drivers NEVER pop up), did not show up again after I reinstalled everything.

I've tried downloading every driver I can find for this motherboard of mine, but nothing is giving me sound. I'm currently trying one more from the actual product website, and if that doesn't fix it, I have no idea what to do.

My motherboard is an LAiveNF6G-VISTA, if that helps at all.

Perhaps you need to enable onboard sound from somewhere within your BIOS settings?

Start > Run > devmgmt.msc

Attach screenshot. I am particularly interested in anything with a red "X" mark or a yellow exclamation mark. Be sure to expand "Sound, video and game controllers."

Start > Run >eventvwr.msc

Right-click separately on Application and System. Save log files in evt format, zip 'em up, and attach here.