Hello,

I'd be so grateful if you could help me.

I'm running Windows XP

Suddenly, I'm unable to hear musicmatch, windows media player, or realplayer sounds or see video, either stored on my pc or streaming.

I CAN hear my screensaver song, and the logon tone.

I have tons of Livewire files that used to play beautifully. Suddenly they stopped. I have done a system restore, and a defrag, and nothing's helped.

PLEASE, PLEASE help!!

Thanks very much.

ahas

Any idea what could have triggered this?

Check the Device Manager: RT click My Computer then click Manage then Device Manager or go to start/run/ devmgmt.msc for any "!"

Also: look in your Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id especially of errors that seem to coincide with this issue.