Strange sound problem

[Kojak00]

Hello, newbie here with an odd problem:

Some time ago, I had to reset my computer for some kind of hic-up, and since then, the sound won't work - that is, mp3, movie sounds, system sounds and so on. Game sounds are still working fine though, which surprises me. Now, what should I do? A dxdiag gave the result that Directsound didn't work, and neither did DirectMusic for my Realtek AC97 and Microsoft Syntheziser. Midi and wavetable worked fine though. I'm running a P4 with Windows XP pro with everything else working fine.

I'm getting desperate here - what could be wrong?


edit: nevermind - seems the sound controls just had dropped to 0... 😳

 

[Proximon]

Hehe... the other day I was sure there was something wrong with XP because my USB HD wouldn't show up. A glance at my hub made me think it was plugged in, and I spent hours trying to work it out before I realized I had unplugged it days before and forgot about it.

 

[Enterra]

Well, what have you tried so far?

I would uninstall the sound driver, and reinstall it. (possible with updated drivers from the manufacturer.

If that doesn't work, pull out your trusty OS disk, and do a windows repair. That will restore most of your vital system files. Might just do the trick.

Let me know how it goes.

 

[Kojak00]

Thanks, but it solved itself due to that the controls had dropped - I did do a reinstallation of the sound drivers though, right after my first post, but that didn't do any good either...
What I still find odd though is that the sound was affected by a reboot - I have never experienced that before.