Sound cuts off after System Standy

I installed new modem and changed Power settings to system standby after 45 min. On retrieval, sound does not work. Before new card and new setting, only monitor was turned off in Display Properties>Power. After reboot, sound OK until goes to standby. On modem setup, I answered question to use system sound as OK. Thought it read "to use computer speaker. "

Modem is an AOpen FM56 -SVV Soft PCI Modem

System Info:
System Information report written at: 12/22/2006 12:00:36 PM
[System Summary]

Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name B-Q4C6K9Y41R9O2
System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation
System Model OptiPlex GX110
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~863 Mhz
BIOS Version Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A06
Windows Directory C:\WINNT
System Directory C:\WINNT\system32
Boot Device \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
Locale United States
User Name B-Q4C6K9Y41R9O2\Tom
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 522,468 KB
Available Physical Memory 282,800 KB
Total Virtual Memory 2,057,988 KB
Available Virtual Memory 1,435,196 KB
Page File Space 1,535,520 KB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

I would appreciate any help someone can offer. hate to keep rebooting as OS files not complete.

Tom G

 

Hello Tom,

Right after reboot when sound is ok - go into Sounds & Audio Devices via the Control Panel > look thru all the advanced settings and make a note of the settings.

After the sound stops working, do the same. What might be happening is that one of the sound souces or the speakers get muted. At least that'll narrow it down some.

What do you mean by that? That would seem to point to a repair of the OS.

Regards - Charles

 

Yes, Charles,

I noted the settings in Sound & Multimedia. Will compare when sound stops.

OS got fouled starting last November, 05 - Feb, 06 when ISP went bad and INet Conxn wnet south. Seemed like hacking or bad download. OS not worked well during reboot since. Have network unit without disk and waiting to upgrade to an XP Pro then Vista. I would need to get a 2K disk to repair OS.

Sound difficulties not related to OS problems. They just started recently.

Tom

 

Simply reboot the computer.
Printers as well seem to have trouble when coming out of standby mode.

 

Thank you for the help, gentlemen.

I removed the setting for standby only to turn off monitor. That seems to work, though it would be nice to use standby.

Rebooting works too, though it takes too long to do since the system files were compromised.

Tom