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Nov 22, 2008

my computer has given me this problem in the past- and it righted itself. Not this time. I have a SoundMax onboard soundcard on a Gateway desktop, and according to device manager, everything is working fine, but no sound could come from the speakers. So I decided, maybe it is a hardware thing- I happen to have another Creative sound card here, lets try it. It worked! Yay! Then I restart, and then it stoped working too!I have two sound cards, one onboard, one PCI, both appear to be in total working order according to XP, and neither emit any sound after I restart the machine so I am assuming this is a registry issue or something windows related.

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
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MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

(Also, I have no clue why it says WinNT 5.01.2600 on the platform listing. That started happening when I was working with the TCP/IP connections, though it's not important as of now.)


If you need me to post any other hardware listings or, well, anything about my computer, just ask.

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> http://tinyurl.com/808g

> Hopefully you can try this first and everything will work out...Let us> know the results.

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