K8N Sound Blaster(p17) Suddenly Invisible to Device Manager

I have Onboard Sound enabled in the BIOS, and I did have sound working for many months until I woke up this morning, turned on the PC and heard a "BEEP" from the PC Speaker instead of the usual windows event sounds. I looked at the Device Manager and my sound hardware was just.. Gone! Invisible! Disappeared!
I re-installed the audio drivers(specified in the downloads section of the MSI site for my particular motherboard: Sound Blaster Live! 24bit, or p17) but they did not detect their hardware. I even tried re-installing the mainboard drivers package(C51_CK804_MN30003.) What's even more strange is when I go into the BIOS and *disable* onboard sound, a mysterious unnamed "PCI Device" gets detected by windows(it goes away again once I re-enable Onboard Sound.) It had been suggested in other forums that un-installing it from Device Manager would make windows re-detect the hardware, but in this case there is no device to un-install!
Please help me help you help us all!
Here are my specs:
MSI K8N Diamond Plus(AMD socket 939)
Antec 430 Watt ATX PSU
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4gHz)
Corsair 1gb(2x 512mb) DDR400(PC3200) RAM
nVidia GeForce 6800 GS
WD 250gb HD
Windows 2000 Professional

BOSSKILLER:
The OS did not pick up the card. I saw no difference when placing it in both PCI slots, onboard sound disabled in the BIOS for both cases. IOAPIC is enabled and MPS Table is set to 1.4
Kane3_162:
I don't have any working floppy disks(all I had remaining were tested and failed!) But I did try flashing the BIOS using the LiveUpdate feature on the MSI website. The latest version they listed was 1.2, I was very paranoid about doing this without the ability to make a rescue disk... Where did you get version 1.34?
The BIOS update did not help in detecting either the onboard or PCI audio; I became suspicious of the PCI card itself, and dug around in the closet for another, found this ancient ct4740 16bit SB card and it was detected!
So now I have PCI sound, an updated BIOS, and a vaguely stupid feeling for not suspecting the first replacement card... Thanks again everyone, I hope this thread turns up in search engines everywhere, as a lot of good advice was given despite the simplicity of the problem: A burnt out onboard Sound Blaster Live! 24bit(P17) ... It happens
This seems like a coincidence, but I remember rolling back the nVidia Forceware Beta drivers before this happened. I went from 163.44, which was force-installed with the BioShock demo, and did a rollback to 94.24 because it was messing up a few games. Rebooted once and everything seemed ok, shut the system down and next time it was powered up the onboard sound was toast... But then it could have also been the wind storms and power fluctuations in the neighborhood, who knows...

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