Sound issues macbook pro

Hi
I have a MacBook Pro 2011 that  has been working well. It runs OS Lion.
Recently after a restart there was no sound and in the settings it said no output device found. This seems to be a common problem.
I have tried a few different things unsuccesfully including reinstalling Lion.
It seems to be a software problem and the only solution that works consistently is to do the following:
1) restart in safe-mode followed by
2) restart and pressing the cmd-alt-p-r combination
Would appriciate if anyone had better suggestions or fixes
cheers
Christian

Daigohgoh wrote:
Or try VM Ware 3? I hear it runs Win 7 better than VMW2? (at least until the drivers for Win 7 comes out for Mac)
I agree. In fact, I have been using VM Ware Fusion 3 for Windows 7 too. Having tried Parallels Desktop 5, I can tell you that VM Ware Fusion 3 is much better. I have found Fusion to be so much cleaner on my system. Parallels Desktop 5 feels like it has been butchered together. This has just been my own experience.
Good luck!

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