I have a dell Inspiron 8600 lap top with windows xp - I've had it for a
little over a year and the sound used to work just fine.

Now I do not get system sounds, no sound in yahoo messenger and no sound in
the microsoft pinball game that came with it, and no sound on the dvd/cd
drive. All these things had sound a couple of weeks ago. Sound is not
hugely important to me so I can't stay exactly when it stopped working.
But I would like to watch the occasion dvd on my lap top.

I *DO* have sound in real player, itunes and media player. So my speakers
are working.

Also the speaker icon has disappeared from the task bar sys tray. I
checked all the settings and the option to put the icon in the sys tray is
checked - but it's not there.

Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Maggie