Bump!! i have the same problem.. little different tho.. sound was
working fine when restarting and shuting down and all.. but today i put
the computer to sleep for an hour or so to take care of some business..
when i came back and started up i got stuck at the welcome screen and my
hdd led was frozen so i hit reset and when i loaded windows sound was
gone with the same symptoms.. everything seems fine in volume panel and
even in winamp but no sound coming out... i have win. vista ultimate x64
and a creative x-fi extreme music sound card (also 4gig of ram and a
evga geforce 9600gt 512mb with amd quad core black edition 2.5GZ on an
asus motherboard


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PaulieXP