System Sound Problems Help Please

[iamloco724]

ok i have sound with everything else i play videos,music and i could even play the system sounds when i click on them to play but now i have this problem out of no where first the tray volume control dont come up anymore ive unchecked it and rechecked it and still not there and when i go into control panel and go to sounds when i click on a system sound i cant preview it in there but when i go to browse and open the file in media player it plays just fine but it dont play in the preview and i dont have any system sounds playing when i boot etc etc...so i dont know what to do any suggestions on what could be wrong here?

 

[AdmnPower]

that sounds really wierd you could try a system restore back to a date when it worked, might make it work again. Who knows it might be worth a shot. I don't think it's a problem with your sound card because as you said if you do it through media player it will actually produce sound.