Sounds like in your volume control panel you have the cd and wave set to mute. On some computers you have two of these. One in the window program, and one from your soundcard mag.. You may have to look in your program menu for a mixer program under the name of your soundcard mag. Pc ----- Original Message ----- From: Cliff Messner To: PC Helpers Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:47 AM Subject: [pchelpers] sound problem 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. 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.