Audio devices only showing up with dummy output. No audio

[lemonickous]

I have an ASUS FX553VD with dual boot Win10 and Mint 18.1. The only available drivers are for Windows 10, on the site and they are by Realtek. I was getting audio when I was installing mint out of the USB drive. however, since booting from my disk, it's only showing dummy output available. I tried purge removing and reinstalling alsa-base, pulseaudio, force restarting alsa, restarting my PC multiple times to no avail. I also verified that

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/etc/default/speech-dispatcher

has the line

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RUN=no

Following is the audio relevant output from my command

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lshw

*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 31
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=32
resources: irq:130 memory:df420000-df423fff memory:df400000-df40ffff

aplay -l always gives me no soundcard detected.

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~ # aplay -l
aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...

More information:

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<pc name> # ps -ef | grep pulseaudio
lemonic+  5747     1  0 22:06 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
root      7065  2440  0 22:19 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulseaudio

I'd appreciate any help, thank you.