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Issues with sound and playback
About a week ago, I had a problem with sound on my computer. It started off when Windows Media player would not play files on my playlist (This is not a codec problem, I have CCCP installed). It would say: "cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device." It would go through the songs in my playlist, marking them with an "X", until the sound works again and it is able to play the song.
The problem got even worse when system sounds would stop playing. Videos on YouTube did not work. So I think the sound problem is universal.
Also, the song playing on Windows Media Player would sometimes "skip," around 20 seconds before the song ended. I looked on the Microsoft page and the recommendations were to reinstall the sound driver.
I updated and installed the sound driver several times, and it still did not fix anything.
My laptop model is Sager np5165, I don't have a dedicated sound card, and I'm running 64x Windows 7.