No sound, Windows XP, sound blaster CT4740, Please HELP

I recently moved to a new apartment - when I hooked up my pc for the
first time in my new place, no sound, I assumed there was some type of
damage to the card.

Just in case, I checked everything
- no conflicts
- device is enabled
- volume up
- speakers tested independently, they work
- nothing on mute
- tried a number of drivers, number of PCI slots

I then purchased SoundBlaster 16 PCI CT4740 cheaply confident it was a
hardware problem. Windows XP did the initial install retrieving its
own drivers. After a reboot, no sound. I installed off of the CD,
loading the drivers provided on the cd, no sound. I downloaded the
latest drivers from the CreativeLabs website, forced XP to use them,
and still no sound!! Now I'm just confused. If not a hardware
problem, what else am i missing. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

- Dan

whoopsy wrote:
Just in case, I checked everything
- no conflicts
- device is enabled
- volume up
- speakers tested independently, they work
- nothing on mute
- tried a number of drivers, number of PCI slots

umm... exactly *what* type of sound are you attempting to play? If you
have only tried and failed with CDDA you might be missing a connection
from the drive to the card. If you're trying it with a TV card umm... i
can't help you there.
One time, strangely enough, I had a sound card that didn't work. Turns
out Windoze was sending the sound to the line-level output on the card
instead of the speaker out.

--Pandora Xero