'Morning Roqk,

I've worked my way through most of your links. It's certainly an interesting problem you have. You mention DriectX. I'd certainly be reinstalling that. The link below is at the MS website regarding reinstalling ...

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/search.aspx?q=directx

My take on all the above is that your soundcard is fine and the files are fine. It's just the link between how Windows uses the sounds in its software. From what I read, re-installing DirectX is well worth a shot. You've got nothing to lose.

Regards,
Noel


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