P35 Neo, no sound

Hey,
I'm using P35 Neo mainboard and got into a frustrating issue yesterday.
So yesterday I unplugged everything from the back of the computer (USB, power cable, headphones etc) and when I plugged it back in and started the computer again, I had no sound. At first I just thought I had put the cables into the wrong jack (which I had but irrelevant xD). I'm newbi when it comes to stuff like this but I tried all the jacks eventually and none of them worked. Skype said that it couldn't find my sound card. I once had the problem before when I had a friend helping me, we dealt with it for about an hour uninstalling/installing drivers back and forth and finally got it to work.  However yesterday I wasn't as lucky. I fought with this problem for more than 6 hours unable to fix the issue.
I got the right drivers and skype now says that everything works fine. The volume mixer shows that sound is playing but no sound comes from either my speakers or headphones. I have plugged it in the right jacks, even tried to jacks that aren't right and still didn't work.
I've tried to reinstall Realtek HD audio thingy. I've tried to reinstall my mainboard drivers. I've tried to uninstall all sound devices under Sound, video and game controllers and let it auto install it on restart. I've done all these things at least 10 times each. 
I don't know if this is a common thing or if I'm just stupid enough to realize the problem.  I really hope I can find some help here. If you need more information regarding my gear, just ask.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: I rebooted my computer once more and suddenly it just started to work again. Don't know why but I'm happy =D

you most probably need to have the Microsoft HDA Bus Driver installed in the first place before you can install the realtek driver.
but... I can't find the link to show you where you can download this driver. At the mean time, do you mind to try google for it first, while I'm doing the same thing here...
good luck

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    1.) Can this MB run Win 7 64 bit?
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