Sound is busted

So...let me make this as quick as possible for i am running out of patience.
My sound works in WMP and VLC player, or any program like VirtualDJ or Reason, but anything else is muted.
I have no Windows sounds, i have no youtube sounds in any browser (i had to upgrade to IE 8 to find this out and that was a waste of time.)
I tried everything possible..reinstalled drivers codecs, and still nothing works...
I beg for your help, otherwise the anger just might burst out and my computer will suffer...physically.

bump?

do you have a sound card or are you using the one integrated in the mobo?
if you have a sound card, make sure you disable the integrated sound in the bios so you only use the sound card
then check in control panel what your sound devices are.