Volume control w95 not fuctioning

[mhall]

Here is a puzzler?

I have a lost the ability to control sound related items through my volume control panel in Windows 95. I still get audio through the speakers and I can play a music or game CD and have no problems hearing the related audio. I can use the volume controls on the speakers to control the level of sound, base, and treble. My microphone is not usable and I would like to get this running for another application.

When I adjust any of the controls it has no effect, muting does not work, I can't use the microphone to record with, not even the volume control on Winamp works.

Here is my system:
P200
64 meg ram
Creative Labs SB AWE 64
W95b

Prior to Christmas this volume panel worked and I thought the perhaps a game that had been loaded had altered the settings. So I removed the game and it has remained the same.

I have tried to deleting the sound card from device manager and then removing the software and then re-installing the software again but without any luck.

I have tried to update the drivers from Creative Labs - no change.

I even re-installed the multimedia component of windows, which also did nothing.

You folks have never failed me before.

Any ideas???

Thanks

Mike

[courto]

You have tried reinstalling the multimedia component? Did you specifically choose volume control in the details of multimedia? I would remove it first then try and reinstall. If that doesn't help I would be thinking about reloading windows on top of itself.

[mhall]

Yup - tried that too. I am sure that I did it correctly but then again you never know with windows? I even just specified to load the volume control section but maybe I need to do the whole multimedia section again?

I had thought about doing another re-install again but I was waiting to see if anybody had any other ideas.

Thanks

Mike