No Sound. Driver Issue.

Hello everyone,

Just today I was using Google to find a picture for a paper I'm doing for college and it sent me to an archaic Angelfire site and when I clicked the link I got an error message on WinAmp:

DirectSound output v2.43
Bad DirectSound driver.
Code: 88780078

I researched the problem and switched the output driver for WinAmp over to a SoundMAX driver.

But the problem is, I have no sound anywhere else. Whenever I go into my sound and audio devices on the Control Panel, everything is grayed over and I cannot select anything.

I have an HP Pavillion 760n. I've tried everything I can think of with no success, so now I turn to y'all to help me out here. I'm losing my mind.

Thanks in advance.

 

Somehow the sound fixed itself. It started using a different sound driver and now works fine. Thanks for the ideas though, I did do the proper updates and now have the latest Direct X and WinAmp.

Thanks.