text: soundcard & soundcard  driver dilemma - sb live! card? though it could be a coincedence of time, after my mcafee updated my pc would not play any music or video but would play system sounds. i uninstalled the soundcard and rebooted - hoping it would fix itself. but that just killed all sounds and in control panel, it now states "no audio device installed". but yet device manager shows the card *is* "working properly". i have always had this card installed and i havent downloaded or installed anything except for mcafeee's daily updates. i also tried to re-install the soundcard driver after d/l'ing from creative, but because the pc isn't recognizing the card now, the driver wont install. i also had a 2nd card lying around and installed it, but there was no change at all - still no sound, same error mssages. if i try to open win media player, the error message says wmp "is not a valid win32 application". this just happned out of the blue and im stumped! i use winxp and the card is a soundblaster live! mod. #sb0220.  thanks so much for help! re-install windows... it'll take less time than trying to fix your cl sound card problem. i've spend many days trying to fix mine, got me nowhere... if the problem continues, try your card to another pc. if the problem still persist, it's a hardware fault.