Audio auto-muted???

[kedmison]

Ok Guys and Gals, here's a new one.

Let me give some quick background first. Have been using Hosterand MTU's laptop now since Jan of 2003. 3 to 4 times a week. NO problems. Nothing else but Hoster and Micro Studio, Excell, & Word on the computer. Computer is used for nothing but shows. Only time it goes on line is to update windows (XP Pro) and Hoster updates.

Last night after about 1 hour into show everything was fine and the next song started but no audio was coming out. I first thought the problem was with my Mackie system. Checked and double checked. No problem there. Then realized by unplugging the audio cable to the laptop would have saved me that amount of time; unplugged from the laptop and found that no audio was coming from the computer. Not having this happened before I decided to shut down and reboot. Came back up and still could not get any audio. I then went into control panel and looked at audio settings. The MUTE box was checked. I unchecked it and everything was then back to working order.

How,...could the mute box get checked by itself? Like I said, this has never happened before. Just curious if anyone else has encountered this and whether the root cause is a windows error or induced by Hoster.

Thanks,

Kelly