System sounds disappeared?

Question

I CAN'T hear system alerts and sounds via internet connection.

I CAN hear Audio CD's, mp3's payed through WMP and any games that I instaled (Diablo etc).

I have done:
1) Uninstall and reinstall drivers
2) Upgraded drivers
3) Did a Windows Repair
4) Checked all volume settings
5) All speakers work because I can play Audio, just can't hear system sounds

I have a RealTek 97' sound card with Windows XP system, running Kaspersky Virus 7 and a hardware firewall.

I have checked the newsgroups, and all services attempting to find a solution and nothing has worked. ANY other suggestions would be great before I break down and c:format again...

Thank you!

I also attempte a system restore and there is nothing to restore too after doing a the windows repair.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled IE and Firefox. No luck as well as have a system sound theme selected. Can't hear anything.

When going into the control panel to set themes for sounds, the windows default is selected and when 'testing' the sound below, and the play button plays but I hear nothing.

Answer 1

Have you tried going into Control Panel and checking your sound settings? You should be able to pull up the list and see if they have someway became unassigned. You should be able to go down the list and assign any sound you want to any feature listed and then click the test button at the bottom of the sheet and hear the sound. You would use the Change Sound Scheme page for this.

Ron

Answer 2

Go to Control Panel and open the Sounds tool and select the Default Windows sounds (or the like) OK it and restart PC if need be.

Sounds like your Sounds theme is either set to none or was configured to not play system sounds.

Cheers

Answer 3

Go into Control Panel, under start, then, click sounds and audio devices, then set a volume.

Answer 4

go to control panel

then select "sound and audio device"
go to sound tab
select a theme
press ok

Answer 5

maybe its your browser.