hi, thanks for the reply. I just got home today, and found out I couldn't boot windows, so I had to boot from CD and reformatted everything. I tried running that audio drive from the site that you linked. When I run it, it reads:
Installation failed!
The audio driver files do not support your computer hardware. Note: If you uninstalled audio software without restarting your PC, restart now, then run this setup again.
Note that this was from a clean reformat, and the first thing I did was download winrar and opened the soundMAX audio drive files from the indicated site.