ok heres the thing,about a month ago my sound card decided to not play sounds anymore,i can play audio cds but not games or other formats,i cant play music files from my hard drive,winamp and media player both say i have no sound card installed, device manager says i have all the correct drivers and i have audio devices and no conficts but the multimedia in control panel is empty with no devices,ive tryed uninstalling my soundcard,reinstalled ok,uninstalled drivers,downloaded new ones,installed ok,uninstalled multimedia reinstalled ok,i even have a spare new soundcard,i put this in a different slot in the computer downloaded drivers and installed ok,same problem my volume is not muted,im out of ideas,i have everest hardware detection so i have the correct device names and as i say audio cds play great but nothing else. i am running win98se 450mhz and my soundcard is creative ct4810