I definitely have the audio volume turned up, both software-wise and hardware wise...to confirm this, I do hear sounds through the speakers whenever I play the test sounds through the Control Panel; it's just that nothing else works. I've tried streaming audio/video through Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, sound effects through applications and Quicktime...none of them have functioning audio.
Just so you can see what my Mixer looks like, I've attached a screenshot of it. Notice that it's a little glitchy looking, the font is wrong for Media Player and there is some black space on one of the bars...also note that the green bar for the high definition audio device, indicating that the computer is outputting sound, is not matched on Windows Media Player (where I was playing a song), so somehow or another the sound is working at the driver level but is not being output through the actual applications.
I know, this is an extremely weird problem...but fortunately, the last remaining issue with my new workstation before it's fully functional.
Any ideas on what I can/should do to fix the problem? I'd like to avoid a total system reinstall if at all possible, but that is a last-resort option. I definitely don't have a 500 watt RMS 5.1 speaker system just to look pretty
Thanks !