Recently, my sound card stopped working, i've tried to shut down, detach it, connect it and start up, no luck, any idea what might be happening?

when you connected it again, was it in the same slot or a different one?

same

try a different slot

i'm trying to get rid of a beep coming from sound card.

like for example whenever someone IM's me a beep goes along with the flashing of the messenger screen. how do i eliminate this beep? it's annoying.

Do you mean a beep that comes from your speakers? Or from inside your computer? If it's your speakers, then there will be a setting in the IM application to change the sound options. If it's coming from inside your computer, which would be a little weird, it could be the onboard speaker on your motherboard. In that case, you want to check the Windows mixer and look for a PC Speaker volume (or similar) and adjust that.

Also one other thing, if you go into the Windows Control Panel and into the sound and audio devices icon, there is a tab called SOUNDS where you can adjust system sounds. Change the sound scheme to NO SOUNDS and see if that helps.

the sound comes from the onboard speaker in the motherboard i think. i had already tried that NO SOUND thing, but doesn't help.

boot into your system bios. there are sometimes options to turn it off.

F8 right? or F6? i'll try both for now, if that doesn't work i'll check for your answer.

edit: i got in the bios but can't find any audiosettings.

not sure i have any more tricks up my sleeve. you might try finding out the manufacturer of your motherboard and seeing if they have any details on disabling the onboard speaker.

yeah i might do that, thanks anyway