Audigy 2 ZS Notebook and a stupid, stupid frie

A couple of days ago a friend of mine decided to press the PCMCIA card eject button. I told him not to do this, but he's an idiot. So he presses it, and the card pops out. After this, my laptop freezes, and I have to do a "hard" shutdown. I boot it back up, and now the speakers no longer work with the Audigy. If I shut the computer down then start it up without the card in a PCMCIA slot, the speakers work fine, except with the less-than-stellar sound quality. When I use the HPJ (Headphone jack) in the card, the headphones work fine. Now, this isn't any great inconvenience for me, but I would like to resolve it, because I don't enjoy having to use my headphones when I want to listen my music. And not using the card with my speakers isn't an option. It sounds like crap without it.
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OK, thank you for the information. More than likely something has gone wrong with your Windows registry. Rather than delve into that, I would suggest that you go back into Device Manager, and 'Uninstall' you 'On Board' sound card, and reboot your machine. While the notebook is off, remove the PCMCIA card, and this will force the OS to reinstall the on board sound into Device Manager and hopefully the registry as well. Once this is done, you should see a return of your on board sound card's functions and be able to hear you on board speakers.
Please note, that it may take a secondary boot prior to hearing your on board sound card kick in. Simply 'Uninstall' the on board sound (and have the 'Drivers and Applications' CD/DVD from your notebook at hand... and the OS installation disc too), reboot then when the system logs back on it should reinstall the on board sound. It may ask you for the drivers CD/DVD and the OS CD/DVD during this process. That is why I suggested that you have it there when you start. Once this is complete, you should reboot and when your system comes back up you should have sound in your notebook's speakers.
If not, leave a message. There is one instance, I can think of, where you would successfully reinstall the on board sound (and it's system registry entries) and the sound NOT come from your speakers.
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