> "vangelis" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2E72F92C-3267-4779-996E-0C7FCB365591@microsoft.com...

>> Hellow to all of you good people out there,
>>
>> I am contacting you, because I am confronted with a problem with the sound
>> in my system!
>> Whenever I try to open an audio CD, or a DVD with my Windows Media Player
>> 10, or with any other media player installed on my system, everything plays
>> OK, except that I hear no sound at all!
>> Before I load the CD, or DVD, I can both play and hear video and music
>> through the Internet (using my Microsoft Internet Explorer) with no problems
>> at all!

>
>
> Next time this happens, check if the Windows Audio service is still running: Run->services.msc, scroll down to "Windows Audio", and
> look at the Status column. Does it say Started? If not, then for some reason, it has stopped (it should never normally stop, so
> something has made it crash). If it is not running, then close the Services window and open the Event Viewer: Run->eventvwr, then
> click the System branch. Now look at the list and see if there are any Errors from the Service Control Manager near the top. If
> so, then double-click it and see if the says that the "Windows Audio" service terminated unexpectedly. If you find this to be the
> case, then something is definitely crashing that service (which is responsible for all audio on your system) and we need to figure
> out what-presumably some CD player, handler, etc.
>
> If the Windows Audio service IS running and you still have to sound, then there is something else wrong and we'll have to run other
> tests.
>
>
> --
> Alec S.
> news/alec->synetech/cjb/net
>
>Dear Alec S.

>