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

Hi,

One of the applications that *is* working is likely not terminating properly
or is staying in resident memory and is not releasing control of the sound
card. Hit ctrl+shift+escape and check on the processes tab, kill any that
might remain when not in use.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"dell" <dellamir@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:7P2dnTcI4N24VjPenZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>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
>
>
>

Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not fix the problem.


"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:umNZgiXCGHA.1312@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> One of the applications that *is* working is likely not terminating
> properly or is staying in resident memory and is not releasing control of
> the sound card. Hit ctrl+shift+escape and check on the processes tab, kill
> any that might remain when not in use.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "dell" <dellamir@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:7P2dnTcI4N24VjPenZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>
>