Page 3 - Sound stops suddenly in PC

ouch

Micky, out of curiousity, why do you only have version 1 of .Net framework installed?

Have you tried simply re-installing your sound card driver?

hmmm.
i m not too sure if i wud want to go there!!


JMH, i have reinstalled sound card......... nothing changed

Micky, a couple of sillier suggestions since I am out of other ideas.

If this is not an onboard sound card, have you
disabled any onboard soundcard
tried putting it in a different slot
checked to see what the processor is doing when sound stops?

Elija, its an onboard sound card.

I'll check the task manager for checking what the processor is doing when the sound stops

Starnge thing is that sometimes it just works without any problem

Onboard sound can go jumpy when the processor is busy

ok.......... i'll have a watch on the processor

ok, winamp stopped playing, all sounds are off.
i tried playing windows Media Player, song was showing as playing but no sound was coming.

Processor was not busy, using just 10-15%.

Edit: i restarted my PC, played in windows media player and again sound stopped......... no sound is coming from PC.

I know it's a long shot, but you could always try re-installing WinAmp and Media Player

I have reinstalled winamp.

given the fact that it's happening in both Win Amp and Media player leads me to believe that it is indeed a driver issue (if it were hardware, the sound would not work at all, unless, perhaps, it's a chipset overheating issue) The AC '97 sound cards used to be tempormental about their drivers (in fact some motherboard driver cd's installed the wrong drivers!!) You may try rolling back the drivers to the Windows included drivers (if supported by Windows) to do this, right click on my computer, go to properties, click on the hardware tab, click device manager, go to your sound card, go to its properties, click on the driver tab, and then "roll back driver" button.