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Hello all,
First let me say this is a great forum and I am really glad I found it. From what I have read everyone here is very knowlegable and friendly (I hope patient too).

Here is my problem with yahoo. I purchased a new computer (a Dell Dimension 8400). I had not tried to use voice chat until a few months ago. When I did, the strangest thing happened. I was in a chat room and everything froze, nothing would respond. I had to go into the task manager and It read that yahoo was not responding and I clicked end task. Everytime I tried the same thing would happen. Even when I tried to use voice in the message box the same thing would happen. It does not happen right away, just a few minutes after I click to enable voice chat. It does not work by the way, I cannot chat nor can I hear anything. The voice chat buttons do not even light up. I have uninstalled messenger and even tried the new beta version. That one was worse, when I entered chat rooms voice chat was automatically enabled and I would freeze in a matter of moments. I have emailed yahoo support and the only time I got a response is when I seemed to get a little aggitated with no responses. But even then that stopped. So here I am. This has become more of a mission now, if there is something in my computer then I cannot figure it out. I have read through the forums here and some have had voice chat problems but nothing like what I have experienced. But perhaps I didn't read all of them, does anyone have any suggestions? Please,,,,any thoughts would be appreciated.
thanks