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Greetings. This afternoon when I still had sound, I played a .FLV file with my VLC player(latest version). There was no sound when the file played, but sound wasn't important at the time so I disregarded it. Upon completion of the .flv file I noticed that as I tried to run another .flv file using my regular flv player, I had no audio at all. I tried various mp4, mp3, wmv, mpg, avi files and realized that I had no audio whatsoever anymore. None, regardless of what format or player I chose. That is the situation now as I write this 4 hours later. My Creative 24 bit sound blaster card is dead in the water, and there was nothing wrong with it before I ran the flv file through the vlc player. This has happened before and I was always able to get the audio working again, but this time, nothing I do works on restoring the audio. When I ran the Creative diagnostics program, it doesn't find anything wrong. All the settings are as they're supposed to be. I simply have no sound anymore emanating from my sound card. As I tried everything I could think of(including re-booting and re-setting all of my audio options to their defaults), I decided to give this forum a try and see if anyone can point me in the right direction. Here are my system specs:
Win/XP Pro fully updated, Creative Sound Blaster 24 bit sound card(with the latest driver), 128mb ATI video card, 1gb ram
Thanks for whatever help anyone can provide.

Bob C.

.....I don't know that's weird. Try some headphones do you have sound thou headphones?

Boot a rescue CD and see if you have sound. If not, then your soundcard amplifier might have fried - this can happen with some really crap hardware if the software audio volume is raised too high. If it does work, your Windows installation is somewhat wrong.

Hello again folks. I can't explain it, but after a 9 hour shut down and a cold boot this morning, my sound is back. I didn't fiddle with anything else to get this result, I just shut it down and turned it back on this morning and now all is well. I guess goblins infected my machine for a few hours and then departed. Thanks to those that replied.

Bob C.