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And now the laptop's sound card is working again. Actually its performance has been spotty in all the years I've had the thing - I just thought till now that it was the laptop's speakers that were the issue, because WMP never complained before that it was actually unable to play sound files (a symptom from over the past few days that I haven't mentioned here). Pretty sure this isn't even the first time it's conked out entirely for twenty-four or forty-eight hours and then come back. It's perfectly possible that this happens all the time and I never noticed before because, when I'd be on the computer while Leah and I were watching tv, I'd just mute the laptop outright.