Ok, smart people, I have a challenge for you. My sound function is almost totally dead. Can't play CD's, can't play .wav files, video clips are silent. However, I discovered recently that on Yahoo Chat, the voice function works very well. Also, while on chat, I was sent to a URL having a .wav file. While the "talk" function within Yahoo was active, the file would play. Once I logged out of Yahoo, the .wav file went silent. Do any of you smart people have any suggestions I could try? Signed, Desperate! aka Cliff Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.