This is the Miracle Journal because it is a pure miracle that I am able to type it today. I have probably had the worst day with technology than I have ever had, including the disk drive day because it had been shifty before. I should know the ASUS live chat agents' names by heart now. Simply put, updates (maybe an update AVG antivirus mix) screwed up my computer to where it would no longer play sound yesterday, but it was too late by the time I had realized what all it had actually done to get any help. So I waited until today, having restarted it, shut down and restarted, and tried to manually start my audio services where it gave me a nice