Please have patience, I have been trying for a very long while to get a solution to this problem and am using every available resource, you may have seen this post in other forums.

Hi Everyone, this is a long and very difficult problem, I have tried everyone's suggestions and still the Volume Icon is never in the NA after a reboot, it always appears after going to control panel, opening Sound and Audio devices and removing the check mark, clicking apply, replacing the check mark and again clicking the apply.

Would a Windows repair or reinstall help? I don't want to loose all my present information, but a reinstall would also give me the opportunity to enable AHCI, which I need so my external SATA backup drive can be recognized without having to turn it on and reboot, which is what I have to do now.

Thanks for any help.

Jim