Here is my problem. I have a MSI 6330 Lite MB, 500+mb of memory, 2 40 gig hd(One for system and one for MP3s), 64 mb Evil Kyro AGP, Real Hollywood Decoder card, 3 com nic,and realtek nic, surfboard cable modem, 24x cdrw, 12x Dvd, 1000 AMD Athalon and a SBLive Plat. 5.1 w/ Live Drive, all running WinXP Pro. I have quite a few programs installed on this. Two of these programs were XP Plus! and XP Media Update. One day my sound quit working but not after I installed these programs directly. I reinstalled drivers and it worked again. Then a couple of days later when I turn on my computer and there is no sound device. In the Device manager, there is the SBLive(WDM) and the SBLive Gameport and the devices are working properly. I go to control panel and then sounds and multimedia and it does not have any audio devices listed. Only the wave modem is listed but no SBLive.

Anyways, I have another machine just generic with SiS 7018 sound and it was working fine and one day last week it did the same thing. So, I went into the Add/Remove Programs and uninstalled XP Plus! and XP Media Update, restarted and there it showed back up in the control panel's, sounds and multimedia. So I think great, All I have to do is go home and unistall these things. (Before this I have already been screwing around with the drivers for three weeks, contacted Creative Support and gave them my scenario. They sent me a detailed message saying to rename the extensions of some files and then delete the SBLive folder in Creative and then reinstall with the updated XP drivers. This did not work previously.) So back to the story, I still have no sound but it says they are installed and the devices are working properly in the Device Manager just no audio device's in control panel's sounds and multimedia. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone out there no a fix short of reinstalling? That is my next step, but I definately think I found a bug with either the XP Plus! or XP Media Update and WinXP. Thanks for any help, info, or advice on my topic. Willy Paycheck