Firewall,Sound card

[The Despondent Mind]

Ok i just don't know what happened i was siting on my pc started Empire at war launcher and i got an error that my sound card is disabled or missing , now i can't play anything on media player . For some reason i checked my firewall and when i try to enable it i get the following messege:
"windows firewall setting cannot be displayed because the associated service is not running. do you want to start the windows firewall/internet connection sharing (ics) service?"

when i click yes, i get this messege:
"windows cannot start the firewall/internet connection sharing (ics) service."

Any idea ?

[irishron]

Tried restarting your computer? Mine catches a glitch every so often.

[The Despondent Mind]

Yeah restarting helped . But i don't wanna this to happen again .

[irishron]

Windows being Windows, it just may anytime. So far in 2011, I've lost my keyboard just turning on the computer first thing in the morning and had to reboot.

[Top-Tier-Tech]

Windows being Windows, it just may anytime. So far in 2011, I've lost my keyboard just turning on the computer first thing in the morning and had to reboot.

I've had this problem with certain motherboards and certain keyboards. Remember that motherboards can be the reason for these occasional hiccups just as easily as windows.

[irishron]

I've had this problem with certain motherboards and certain keyboards. Remember that motherboards can be the reason for these occasional hiccups just as easily as windows.

Very true. My Win7 install is a year and a hlf old, totally up to date, and the motherboard is about six months older. It could have got caught in the Vista to 7 transisition but I've kept the BIOS and chipset up to date, just in case.