No audio! help required

[Vinniedub]

Hi there, I'm a new member looking for some help. (I hope this is the correct place to post this , if not I apologise) As from yesterday I'm totally without audio on my pc, the speakers have been tested and are fine. I can neither play mp3's nor CD's from either of my drives or from the C drive, I've also tried streaming audio from online radio and video files (the video is fine just no audio along with it) The only sound I get is the system beeb at start-up. The only thing I can think of is that windows media player wanted to install some updates yesterday but couldn't as I had forgotten to put the system restore back on following a recent virus, I abandoned the updates as I was using the media player at the time. I also re-set the system restore. A bit long winded I know, just trying to give as much info as poss. Does anybody have any ideas?
tia Vinnie

 

[FortiTude]

there are several things you should check, the first are the volume settings in the volume control panel. then i'd check the multimedia settings if the device is selected, and perhaps in advanced there if hardware acceleration is set, but that shouldnt really matter.
and check if the device is working correctly in your device manager (no "!" at the symbol)
the media player updates shouldnt be that important ...
and try other audio players than media player, foobar or winamp for example
forti

 

[LTR12101B]

Check that the volume control in the tray (Speaker icon) hasn't become checked as MUTE - don't know why, but it happened to a friend's system a few times - I wonder if there's an obscure hotkey combination?

 

[Vinniedub]

thanks for looking in guy's. already checked those apart from the multimedia suggestion. Since installing XP I always get the new hardware wizard popping up at start-up and when I checked in the device manager the multimedia video controller has a problem, since day one with XP it's never been properly installed, it will accept no other driver though. Having said that it has never had any effect re audio.