Audigy 2 Help nee

Ok I have had my audigy 2 value for a while now and never had any problems but 2 days ago it stoped working,well for the most part anyway. When i try to play music off my pc i get an error message "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly." So?I went into control panel and sounds and devices and everything is ok but the?playback option is grayed out and i cant select a devicebut the sound rec and all that is working i even went to sound recorder and tested it and it worked. I then updated the drivers from this website to the newest ones and still didnt work then i moved the card to a differnt pci slot and still nothing. I just find it wierd that everything else works but the playback. I am on windows xp and have done nothing to the computer software wise or hardware wise from the time it was working till now. Any help would be apreciated.Message Edited by chuck987 on 03-7-200604:5 PM

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