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I'm not 00% sure if this is related to my X-Fi, but it is definetely a wierd problem I can't find the solution for. Basically, when I go to Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices/Sounds, and try to play a sound from the Windows default theme, the grey box to play the sound remains grey. Additionally, none of the sound scheme sound effects ever play, either, even though I have it set to play them (no sound at startup). Even wierder is another problem with the sounds and audio devices menu: My MIDI music playback default choice (under the Audio tab) is just a blank line, and if I try to change it to "SB X-Fi Synth A [A000]" or any other device and hit apply, it just resets itself when I open the Sounds and Audio devices menu again. Which means I can't play MIDI files, which is also very frustrating. Same for Voice Playback under the Voice tab, it is stuck permanently at blank, even though my sound card is an option.
I really could care less about the sound scheme problem, but I have a nagging suspicion that it's related to a bigger problem that I have. I get no sound from Flash videos/movies on YouTube/other internet related things. In almost all my games, the sound is perfect, but on the internet nothing works.
I'm not 00% sure when the problem started, and no one I talk to has any idea whats going on. There have been a few posts on this already, but none of them found a solution to the problem besides a complete reformat, which I really don't feel like doing right now.
Some things I've tried:
Uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers (I use an mp3 player too, and I deleted all of that)
Running Dxdiag and doing all the sound tests (passed them all just fine)
Running services.msc and making sure Windows Audio is enabled.
Gone to Device Manager/Audio Codecs and made sure all codes were enabled
Made sure that there is no red x/yellow exclamation mark over my sound card in Device Manager
The only guess I have is that it is somehow related to a codec pack that I uninstalled/reinstalled, but I can't remember if that happened at the same time as the problem, since I've had this for a while but haven't tried very hard to fix it.
Thanks.

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