Nexbie post, I think i killed my sound card!!!

Hi hope this is in the right section, I'm looking for any help i can get. I got a virus on my comp after 1 of my chinese workers plugged there memory stick in unbeknown to me. So i went round deleting everything that looked suspicious. However i seem to have deleted something to do with my sound card.

Its a Dell Inspiron 9400 with the OEM soundcard which i believe is a soundblaster something. But when i try and play itunes or similar there is no sound and when i click on the mixer it cant be found. Ive tried downloading drivers but im not 100% i got the right ones,



Any help would be greatly appreciated, im stuck in china and cant watch dvds!!

 

ye olde reformat and reinstall never fails

alternatively you can check if you accidentally deleted the driver and try to reinstall it.

 

cheers, for the reinstall i assume i need a disk which i dont have with me. Ive tried drivers but it says no compatible something is found for this application!!

Sorry im not great with computors

 

. XP?
. try using this driver from here
http://driverscollection.com/?H=Inspiron 9400/E1705&By=Dell
. you can also try to un.install the audio device inside your device manager, reboot and let windows dearch and re.install it

cheers ...