No Audio. Driver or damaged Hardware?

Hey fellas, I've already been through the gambit with this one I've managed to even try help through another site (tom's hardware) and nothings come of it.
Recently The sound went out on my computer I've tried every driver i could find. Uninstalling and reinstalling every time. My Windows audio service is always up and running and my device manager shows everything as running. It's weird, the system shows all feedback correctly and it'll recognize when something is connected and disconnected but It wont play a single sound for anything. *headphones speakers etc. I'm thinking it may be chalked up to a damaged integrated sound card? I'm not sure how likely this is. But i did recieve a message on startup a while back about a power surge or something of the sort.

attached are my system specs. I've never had audio issues like this.

 

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3Plus/M5A88V_EVO/
And that's my MOBO because everest didn't seem to get it on the report.

 

Some more things that might be useful. Image attached.