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<blockquote data-quote="Paranoid Delusion" data-source="post: 333167" data-attributes="member: 13176">OK assuming you have in MP config audio renderer set to default directsound device, and with something playing, keyboard attached, bring up the start menu to gain access to the task bar, select your speaker icon in the taskbar and see if MP is muted, if so just uncheck.If it not, then maybe, just maybe you've got the same problem that my neighbour had this last friday, where his sound suddenly went all peculiar with his Realtek ALC889A as well, uninstalling the driver and software, rebooting and reinstalling from the motherboard utilities cd fixed this for him.Wonder if there was a windows update for this over the last week that's gone pear shaped, whilst your at it get the latest directx&nbsp; from <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C1367BC3-4676-481A-BFAA-5C15D1D7199D&amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank">here</a>.The <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2DA43D38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank">November Directx</a> update is not working, so M$ may be having some problems with there servers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paranoid Delusion, post: 333167, member: 13176"] OK assuming you have in MP config audio renderer set to default directsound device, and with something playing, keyboard attached, bring up the start menu to gain access to the task bar, select your speaker icon in the taskbar and see if MP is muted, if so just uncheck. If it not, then maybe, just maybe you've got the same problem that my neighbour had this last friday, where his sound suddenly went all peculiar with his Realtek ALC889A as well, uninstalling the driver and software, rebooting and reinstalling from the motherboard utilities cd fixed this for him. Wonder if there was a windows update for this over the last week that's gone pear shaped, whilst your at it get the latest directx from [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C1367BC3-4676-481A-BFAA-5C15D1D7199D&displaylang=en"]here[/URL]. The [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2DA43D38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en"]November Directx[/URL] update is not working, so M$ may be having some problems with there servers. [/QUOTE]

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