Hello,

I recently am experiencing a sound dilemma. My computer has long been working quirk free. I disconnected and the reconnected in a new location. When I reconnected the computer, I soon found that NO sounds worked:

I tried to access my music files: File types not recognized

I tried to play the windows theme sounds: "file may be damaged or may use an unrecognized compression format..."

I tried to test my sound device hardware: Sound Hardware cannot play sounds

I tried Control Panel>Sound & Audio Devices> Sound> Device Playback> Advanced: error- DirectSound settings not available

I tried to play movies (avi) and receive notice that the audio for the movie is missing or something, and am advised to close out or play without audio.

I have been through the device manager, and the sound card Creative AudioPCI (ES1371,ES1373) (WDM) is enabled and "working properly". I haven't the slightest as to what is wrong.

I have never had a problem to date, and can't seem to figure where it exists now. I even went to services.msc and checked windows audio services... it's fine.

Will you assist me in my quest? MUSIC IS MY LIFE!

SPECS:

Unit: OEM Prebuilt
Intel Celeron CPU 1.7 GHz

O/S: MS Windows XP

Mother Board: I don't know

Sound Card: Creative AudioPCI (ES1371,ES1373) (WDM)