Microphone with Conexant HDA and Working with green check mark and 2. SPDIF Interface with Conexant HDA and Working but no check mark. Speakers, with Conexant High Definition Audio and Working alongside the icon and a green check mark and 2. Some functionality will be unavailable.' I click 'OK' And get the 'Sound' window with three tabs for Playback, Recording and Sounds. and get a 'beep' along with a different little window ('i' in a blue circle) telling me 'Failed to start the WAS. It's next sentence is 'Would you like to enable WAS?' I click 'Yes'.

I Left-click on the speaker and get a message, in a little window with an 'i' in a blue circle, telling me that 'This computer cannot play audio because the Windows Audio Service is not enabled'. I don't want a shortcut so on to the next. 'Open' is in heavier/thicker black print. Right-click on the 'Sound' speaker and get the 'Open' and 'Create Shortcut' options. I'm on an HP Pavillion 6400 running Vista 32-bit. I right-click and I get the pop-up menu with 'Open Volume Mixer' grayed out and the other three choices below, non-responsive. A little pop-up saying 'The Audio Service is not running' appeared with the 'i' in a blue circle. First I clicked on the speaker in my taskbar because there was a little red cirle with an 'X' in it there. I logged in one day a few days ago and could NOT get my sound to work.

Window audio service is not enabled