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I am on a CPU that I built. It has a FIC AD11 Motherboard in it, with the AMD 761 chipset in it, and an Athlon 1400 Processor. It has 256 MB of DDR RAM, a Inno3d GeForce 2 MX Video Card, Windows 98 (First Edition) VIA Sound Card, with the 686B Chipset, and the drivers for that (its on the download drivers page listed under that chipset). I think the only other relevant information is the Harddrive and modem, a Western Digital 20GB Hard Drive and a 56K modem. That covers the required info that the front of the forum requests. Now to the problem.

My sound will go out sometimes, though i do not know why. I just downloaded the new drivers, hoping they would help, but they didnt. What will happen is I'll play a game (anything from Star Trek- Bridge Commander, to South Park Super Mario 2), and then when I'm done I'll get online or something, to find that my sound is out, and its playing through the internal PC speaker. Sometimes I can fix it through closing a certain program (which I assume is holding the drivers in use), but most of the time a restart is neccessary. Can anyone help?

It sounds familiar but I can't point to anything right now. Are these games ... new? Put out in the past year or two? Under W95 especially vendors did not follow sound routine instructions from ... Microsoft? and issues like this were common.
Flying Penguin can probably give you a good push in the right direction. But if he tells you it's an IRQ conflict be ready to throw an old fish at him