sound not availible

[Cameracut]

Whenever I want to play a piece of audio, I have one of two problems.

1. It plays but I can not hear anything although the speakers are
plugged in and I can hear the Windows sounds (eg. asterisk, log on,
shut down, little notification bubble down at bottom). Then I bring up
the volume control and it says there is no audio hardware installed and
I need to install some (it already is).

2. A message comes up saying "Failed to initialize Direct Music Audio."
.. Then it just closes it.

Thanks for any help

 

[sgopus]

looks like your sound drivers got corrupted and need to be reinstalled, I
suggest, you uninstall the drivers first and reboot, before attempting to
reinstall.
be sure you have the correct drivers before doing the uninstall.