PCSX2 0.9.6 and no sound capability

[RikuoAmero]

Well here's a puzzler. Just a short while ago, I installed PCSX2 0.9.6 as well as Daemon Tools Lite (on top of a PowerIso install). I successfully got .Hack Infection running, however, for some reason windows has lost all sound capability...well sort of. I have sound in Skype, I hear the login sound in Skype and the Test Call feature has sound, but nothing else works. I go into Control PAnel and Sound, and test on both Speakers (Creative SB) and SPDIF Out, the computer thinks its testing and I hear nothing. I've tried reinstalling the drivers with a restart but still...the only sound I hear comes from Skype.

I've tried media files, video and sound in Windows Media Player, MPC-HC and VLC, tried setting their Sound Outputs, nothing.

So, I'm stumped. Anyone got any ideas?

Update: In Control Panel->Sound, I have four audio devices

1) AMD HDMI Output (coming from my Radeon card)

2) Speakers (C-Media USB Audio Device) (that's the Tritton AX Pro decoder box connected by USB cable)

3) Speakers (Creative SB X-fi) (the sound card's analog jacks)

4) SPDIF Out (digital optical out)

Usually, I have number 3 selected as Default Device and Default Communications Device (in the Creative Audio Control Panel ->Encoder tab, I have Dolby Digital Live selected, and it tells me to select 3) as my default device, even though my Tritton headset is connected by digital optical cable for audio out (the USB cable I mentioned before is for the headset's microphone).

I've found out that for some reason, I only hear sound when Speakers (C-Media USB Audio Device) is selected. For some reason, Skype automatically switched to that one from number 3, that's why I was only hearing Skype. I could select C-Media as my Default Device, but it only supports two channel audio: I wouldn't get true 5.1 audio.

I have done a System Restore, to just before I installed PCSX2 0.9.6. Still no dice. I can tell Speakers (Creative) and SPDIF Out to test, but I don't hear anything.

SOLVED!!!! Wanna guess what the problem was? What I didn't think of checking before I started poking around with drivers? Yes, apparently my superior brain didn't think to check the simple thing first - like that the digital optical cable was still connected