That's good to hear! Another possible cause of the problem. The XP firewall, or another firewall, may be blocking something the sound needs. See response 3 and 4 in this: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/...

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hmm it appears that this probleme is linked to another semi probleme... a svchost.exe shows under mem usage in task manager 55,000K and from what i can tell thats a bit on the steep end for a svchost... at first i panicked thinking it was malware or something (had it before like that) and ended it... well thats when this error popped back up... anyone know what the corrolation is and if i can fix it?

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Long time no hear from you. This is pasted here from another post I answered: No, svchost.exe usually isn't malicious. svchost.exe (Generic Host Process for Win32 Services) is a generic "slave" program that is commonly used by other programs to do some things in XP. If you press Ctrl-Alt-Del at the same time to pop up Windows Task Manager, select Processes, you will probably see several svchost.exe are listed, using differing amounts of Mem Usage. It is possible the program that is using a particular instance of svchost.exe is malicious, in which case a symptom MIGHT be that you see a constant CPU % used which may vary as you watch in Windows Task Manager even when you are doing nothing with the computer, but it isn't svchost.exe itself that is determining that. Some processes are used for many purposes by other programs e.g. svchost.exe, dllhost.exe, winmgmt.exe. .... "What is svchost.exe? Is svchost.exe spyware or a virus?" http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/p... "The (legitimate) svchost.exe file is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32. In other cases, svchost.exe is a virus, spyware, trojan or worm!" free trial version of Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security: http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/ ..... "What is svchost.exe?" http://help.lockergnome.com/Svchost... To see what programs are using the legitimate svchost.exe Start - Run - type: c:\windows\system32\tasklist.exe /svc OR if you want to check more frequently, "create a shortcut with the following command line: cmd /k c:\windows\system32\tasklist.exe /svc " "There are many other WinXP GUI-based utilities that can also provide you with svchost.exe utilization and information on what calls are being made to it: " ..... If you have something unknown that is accessing the internet.... Some malware uses the Universal Plug and Play feature of XP to facilitate it's dirty work - if you turn it off, that stops the malware. A utility here to turn it off: http://www.grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm Programs such as this can tell you what is accessing the Internet. Netlimiter http://www.netlimiter.com/ The Monitor is freeware.

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