Hi all,
I have a speaker problem.

When I go to listen to music on my comp or watch a movie ETC ETC. It says cannot open sound card not found. YEt some days it works.
NO shows no youtube vids work. I cant even hear funtrivias LOUD adverts. the only thing i can heear is msn noise. HELP!

It might be worth reinstalling the sound drivers, or seeing if there are any updated drivers. It could also be a hardware fault. If it's a separate sound card, perhaps it isn't seated into the socket properly. Contacts can sometimes tarnish and this leads to a poor connection. Moving the sound card around a little in its socket might cure that.

Get someone to look into that for you if you're not adept at that sort of thing.

How would I do that?

I am not as technology inclined as ‘tellywellies’.

If you have no knowledge of how to go about such things, you would need to be prepared to learn it from reading the many articles to found on the Internet. Also, if you want to try and fix computer problems, you need to be prepared for the fact that they can be made worse instead of better. One thing can lead to another sometimes.

A good place to start would be to read the Windows Help and Support files. They have a 'Fixing a problem' section there. One of them is about sound troubles. Follow the steps next time you have no sound. Anything that you find wrong, have a search for the symptom on the Internet. See if it has been encountered by anyone before and read what the cure was.

If this approach doesn't help and you are not particularly interested in going further (or don't have any 'know-how' in this field), perhaps it would be best to take note of the last sentence in my post above.