K8N Neo4 Platinum - Lost Sound

I have a K8N Neo4 Platinum mobo and recently I have suddenly lost sound in both OS's.  I am running XP64 and Fedora Core 4/64.  Primarily I work in the Linux OS.   I noticed that the sound was gone the other day while editing in Kino.  I have had power outages recently while on.  I am stumped why I am not getting any sound in either OS.  The speakers "pop" on on boot up and "pop" off on shut down, but nothing in between.  Tried different speakers, no luck.  Everywhere I look, the onboard sound appears to be recognized and has no problems, but nothing is getting out of the speakers.  Any help?
Thanks

you may have a try to uninstall the audio drivers and reinstall the audio driver here.
You may also check the software player you are using.

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