it doesn't play the initial sound of Wind... XP,

[daniel_10_pt]

when i turn on my PC, the tipical sound of windows is not played, as well as when i turn it off, and my msn mesenger doesn't play any kind of sound.. can somebody help me please??!!

[Cartoonite]

when i turn on my PC, the tipical sound of windows is not played, as well as when i turn it off, and my msn mesenger doesn't play any kind of sound.. can somebody help me please??!!

Is your PC playing any sound at all? If it is always running 100% silent, then you may have a problem with your sound card, sound driver or speakers. Alternately, you may have just muted the audio from the Windows Volume Control. Open the Run prompt (Start -> Run, or WinKey + R) and type sndvol32 and hit enter or click OK to check the WVC settings. The key sliders in this case would be Play Control and Wave/MP3.

If you are getting sound from the machine on some occasions, it's likely that you have just turned the sound options for these things off. Check the settings on your system sounds by double clicking the Sounds and Audio Devices icon in Control Panel and clicking the Sounds tab in the dialog box that comes up. Scroll down the list in the Program Events box. The events you are looking for are Start Windows and Exit Windows.

Sounds for MSN Messenger can be configured from this same dialog box. Scroll down the Program Events box until you find the section headed MSN Messenger. The 4 events that MSN Messenger can assign sounds to are listed here. (This is with MSN Messenger v6.2.0205, it may be different using other versions, such as the 7.0 beta, but I would be surprised if it changed very much.)

Other things to check if you aren't getting any sound at all from your system include the cabling and power/volume settings on your speakers themselves. Try connecting the speakers to another system and see if they work there. Also try plugging in a seperate set of speakers to this system, or even a pair of headphones, to see if you can get sound that way.

Hope this helps.