In a notebook (and in most desktops these days) the controllers and sound card are integrated onto the motherboard. The only reason I hoped it might be missing a controller driver is because that is the only non-hardware failure reason I could think of as to why it wouldn't see the sound card.
Do you have any restore points prior to when it failed? If you have an old restore point I would try that. If you have a W7 Install DVD or restore disk I would run the repair option. And if none of that helped, which I suspect it won't, then I would back up my data to an external HD with Windows Easy Transfer and then I would take one last try with a full install. I truly suspect your computer is physically damaged and none of this will fix it but I would try it before I absolutely gave up.
Sorry, that's the best that comes to mind. Maybe somebody else will come along with another idea.
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