Windows Sound Turns Itself Off

hello
i have been plagued by this problem for some months now and i am at my whits end !! i will explain the details as follows
my pc is self build and mainly used to run flight simulator and other flying programs both simulated and real world .
i had a sound problem after doing a reinstal and upgrade ( bigger hard drive x2 new video card more memory ) after doing this i had treible sound problems in flight simulator , so i did away with the inbuilt sound on the mother board ( i turned it off in the c moss ??) and installed a soundblaster live card , the previous problems dissapeard , however i now have the problem of the sound turning itself off which means i have top go into control panel , sound and audio devices and there is another mystery , sometimes the mute box is "not " ticked , but the sound is still off , i have to tick the box myself , untick and hit apply , after a few minitues of flying it happens again , but it is irregular sometimes every few minitues , sometimes not at all ?? .
i have tried changing the settings in sounds and audio but nothing !!
it is not restricted to flight simulator , sometimes it happens with media player , DIVIX etc .

this is driving me insane , please help , any advice gratefully appriciated
kind regards
Bryan

my pc spec is
ASUS P4S8X-X MOTHER BOARD
INTEL PENTIUM 4 3.06 +GHZ/
2 GIG MEMORY
WINDOWS XP PRO SERVICE PACK 2
1/ 150GIG HARD DRIVE
1/300 GIG HARD DRIVE / BOOT

Try unistalling the drivers for the audio, and reinstall the drivers that came on the CD that came with the sound card.

Hello welshpilot,

That is a strange problem, can you look in the event viewer which can be found in administrative tools in the control panel. Look for errors and warnings in the system and application groups. This may gve some clues as to whats causing the problem.
Let us know what you find.

hello gentlmen
sorry for the delay getting back to you both , thank you for your advice , regretably the suggestion of uninstalling and re installing the drvers has no effect thank you anyway .
as for Alan's suggestion WOW where do i start !! seem to have a lot of errors ,warnnings etc , all going back several months , however as i have no other problem (yet "") with the pc i have deleted all the warnings etc so i can start afresh next time it happens i shall post a screenshot so you can see and advise ?
let me know if this is ok? please
thank youagain
Bryan

Instead of taking the screenshots of the event viewer, you can press the copy button (under the arrows) and then paste them here.

hi Alan
again sorry for the delay posting these , busy with work , here are the results from the event viewer , applicatioon and system , personally i can't make head or tail of them so i thank you for your help , i hope that you can tell me whats wrong and that i don't have to do a reinstall!!!
regards
Bryan

application
ype Date Time Source Category Event User Computer
Information 18/08/2008 07:01:54 avg8emc None 1 N/A BRYAN
Information 18/08/2008 07:01:52 SecurityCenter None 1800 N/A BRYAN
Warning 17/08/2008 22:26:01 Userenv None 1517 SYSTEM BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 21:05:44 Microsoft Flight Simulator 9.0 None 1000 N/A BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:55:16 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:55:15 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:52:34 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:52:33 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:52:29 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:52:27 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:57 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:56 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:55 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:55 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:54 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:54 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:53 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:53 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:52 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:47 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:46 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:46 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:45 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 19:51:45 MsiInstaller None 11606 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 19:23:34 SecurityCenter None 1800 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 19:23:04 avg8emc None 1 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 18:57:11 MBAMService None 1 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 18:11:21 MsiInstaller None 11707 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 16:29:21 MsiInstaller None 11729 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 16:29:21 MsiInstaller None 11706 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Warning 17/08/2008 16:28:12 MsiInstaller None 1001 BRYAN SHAYLE BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 16:06:59 Application Error None 1000 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 14:17:09 SecurityCenter None 1800 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 14:17:04 avg8emc None 1 N/A BRYAN
Warning 17/08/2008 14:13:22 Userenv None 1517 SYSTEM BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 11:39:06 SecurityCenter None 1800 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 11:38:59 avg8emc None 1 N/A BRYAN


SYSTEM

ype Date Time Source Category Event User Computer
Information 18/08/2008 06:58:57 Tcpip None 4201 N/A BRYAN
Information 18/08/2008 07:00:43 eventlog None 6005 N/A BRYAN
Information 18/08/2008 07:00:43 eventlog None 6009 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 22:26:05 eventlog None 6006 N/A BRYAN
Warning 17/08/2008 21:10:08 Tcpip None 4226 N/A BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 20:57:13 ntfs Disk 55 N/A BRYAN
Warning 17/08/2008 19:44:54 Tcpip None 4226 N/A BRYAN
Warning 17/08/2008 19:31:00 Tcpip None 4226 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 19:21:03 Tcpip None 4201 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 19:21:53 eventlog None 6005 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 19:21:53 eventlog None 6009 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 19:19:31 eventlog None 6006 N/A BRYAN
Warning 17/08/2008 18:49:33 Tcpip None 4226 N/A BRYAN
Warning 17/08/2008 18:15:56 disk None 51 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 18:02:04 i8042prt None 12 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 18:01:31 Tcpip None 4201 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 14:15:02 Tcpip None 4201 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 14:15:52 eventlog None 6005 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 14:15:52 eventlog None 6009 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 14:13:25 eventlog None 6006 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 13:58:57 Tcpip None 4201 N/A BRYAN
Error 17/08/2008 11:40:45 Windows Update Agent Software Sync 16 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 11:36:53 Application Popup None 26 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 11:36:53 Application Popup None 26 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 11:36:53 Application Popup None 26 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 11:37:46 eventlog None 6005 N/A BRYAN
Information 17/08/2008 11:37:46 eventlog None 6009 N/A BRYAN
Information 15/08/2008 19:03:25 eventlog None 6006 N/A BRYAN
Warning 15/08/2008 18:49:11 PlugPlayManager None 257 N/A BRYAN
Warning 15/08/2008 18:49:11 PlugPlayManager None 257 N/A BRYAN

Because the following involves making a change in the registry I would suggest backing up the registry so that if there is an error you will be able to restore it.

Backup Your Registry with ERUNT

• Please use the following link and scroll down to ERUNT and download it.
  http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php
• For version with the Installer:
  Use the setup program to install ERUNT on your computer
• For the zipped version:
  Unzip all the files into a folder of your choice.

Click Erunt.exe to backup your registry to the folder of your choice.

Note: to restore your registry, go to the folder and start ERDNT.exe

Error 1606: Could not access network location

Symptom

When you attempt to install an application which uses Windows Installer, you may encounter the following error:

Error 1606 Could not access network location %USERPROFILE%\RECENT\

Resolution

This may happen due to incorrect registry value type for Recent, in the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders

* Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
* Navigate to the above location
* In the right-pane, double-click Recent and set its data to:

%Userprofile%\Recent

Important: The Value type must be of REG_EXPAND_SZ type. If it is of REG_SZ type, delete the value, and then create a new value of the correct type.

* Close Regedit.exe and restart Windows.

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/msi1606.htm

Just my 2 cents?

I had a similar Problem, it turned out to be the Plug in from my Speakers wasn't making Contact?

Worth trying?

I jiggled the Plug until it made contact, Problem solved.

Speakers are quite inexpensive? Try another set of Speakers?

hello DC3 And Abacus 7

dc3 i have doen what you say in your post but i have no, recent key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders

and the only key there with REG_SZ is the "default"key .

any suggestions ??

abacus , not the plug as i have sound from the speakers it's windows that turns the sound off in "sounds and audio devices ,thank you anyway , perhaps you know of something else it could be ,,,, could the speakers themselfes be causing some kind of feedback to overdoo the system ???
i'll try anythig to solve this

thanks to you both for your time

regards
Bryan

abacus , not the plug as i have sound from the speakers it's windows that turns the sound off in "sounds and audio devices ,thank you anyway , perhaps you know of something else it could be ,,,, could the speakers themselfes be causing some kind of feedback to overdoo the system ???
i'll try anythig to solve this

thanks to you both for your time

regards
Bryan

Can you try another set of Speakers?

I admit it is a long shot, but it just might work.

hi
well tried that and no luck im afraid , looks like a reinstall , ah well
thank you for your help
kind regards
Bryan