On Monday, Feb 24, 2003, at 15:56 US/Eastern, Russ Maehl wrote: > I am new at this board. Was interested to see if anyone else has been > experiencing disappearing audio. > > My sound will be working fine after a restart, but some time later I > can not > longer hear any sound out of the Cube. All the sound settings are > correct, > but nothing. Forced to restart to get the audio back. > > I am not using any 3rd party hardware and on 10.2.4. > > Is this a common problem or mine..... Russ, Are your speakers plugged into your Cube or into a Studio LCD? I have found that with my Studio LCD, only one of the two USB ports consistently works for speakers -- the other one quits working after a period of inactivity, and the speakers must be unplugged & plugged in again before they will work properly. Eagle