to add to my other problem (re: IE problems -> able to watch videos, but no sound heard). sound was working fine yesterday, came home from work went to listen to my music and nothing. looked through this forum for advice, tried suggestions:

- did the windows troubleshooting and no help.
-did the device manager thing, says sound/audio device is working fine. no exclaimation marks or question mark icons
-mute is unchecked, volume devices are all up
- tested speakers out by plugging into my own stereo, working fine
- my sister DID say that she accidently turned off our power bar before the computer actually shutdown (could that affect it?)

d/l'ed this evereset report for you guys....i dunno....i almost give up

Summary

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Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name
User Name

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2200 MHz (22 X 100)
Motherboard Name Asus P4S8X-MX (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)
Motherboard Chipset SiS 661GX
System Memory 496 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (12/20/05)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter SiS 651_661FX_741_760_760GX_M661FX_M661MX_M 741_M760_M760GX (16 MB)
3D Accelerator SiS 330 Mirage Integrated

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter SiS 7012 Audio Device

Storage:
IDE Controller SiS PCI IDE Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive ST3802110A (74 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-252F (52x/32x/52x CD-RW)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 76308 MB (31156 MB free)

Input:
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse HID-compliant mouse

Network:
Network Adapter SiS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (24.36.74.255)

Peripherals:
Printer hp psc 1300 series
USB1 Controller SiS 7001 PCI-USB Open Host Controller
USB1 Controller SiS 7001 PCI-USB Open Host Controller
USB1 Controller SiS 7001 PCI-USB Open Host Controller
USB2 Controller SiS 7002 USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller
USB Device USB Human Interface Device

again, simple pc talk please. any suggestions are appreciated, thank you in advanceEasiest fix would be to try re-installing the sound drivers...all kinds of GOOFY things can happen when a machine is powered down improperly...k, did the reinstalling of driver (with someone walking me through it) and nothing.
went to this site: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dlac97-2.aspx?lineid=5&famid=12&series=8&Software=True#8Windows

d'led and installed and still no sound.

what on earth am i doing wrong? :-?Can you swap another sound card in there to see if it works ? ?
It's not an impossibility that the card itself has gone South....Maybe your computer is haunted?! Probably not but I had the same problem with my sound card. Except my sound card wasn't even being detected. It just randomly stopped working. I moved the card to a DIFFERENT ISA slot. Didn't work. Reinstalled drivers. Still didn't work (You should make you install the CORRECT drivers for your card). So I gave up and left the computer by itself for a few hours. Scarily without doing anything when I turn my 'puter back on the sound card works! :-? *CENSORED*. Although the computer turns itself on by itself when I don't tell it to (I can't anyway, I checked) every once and a while. BUT just in case your computer is, don't do something bad to your computer or it may start doing those things! Or worse, delete the contents of your hard drive. Quote

I moved the card to a different ISA slot. Didn't work. Reinstalled drivers. Still didn't work (You should make you install the CORRECT drivers for your card). So I gave up and left the computer by itself for a few hours. Scarily without doing anything when I turn my 'puter back on the sound card works!