speakers keep packing up

barjam_2

every now and then my speakers wont work on pc when i switch them on they seem ok but just no sound comes out of them i just dont know what to do with them i have looked at trouble shooot but they say they are working fine as i'm not techie minded i dont know what to do next any ideas please

aliasojo

Might be completely irrelevent to your situation, but I used to have a similar problem with an old pc. It turned out that a program I was running was effectively changing the sound settings and I always ended up with a tick in the 'mute' box in the audio properties which meant no sound, every time I ran this particular program.

No idea why or how it did this, but it did.

Have you checked your audio properties? Start>Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices?

barjam_2

yeah aliasojo i have checked there and it says they are working fine i also made sure the mute button hadnt been pressed cos that happened once before

aliasojo

Try unplugging them and plugging them in again, blow away any dust...loose connection maybe?

barjam_2

:rotfl: did that!!! sorry had to laugh cos you sound just like me... i had already done everything you asked


anyway sorted it now i went into device manager and updated the drivers the bit where it said the speakers name hey hey:j how techie is that:D thanks anyway aliasojo:beer:

aliasojo

Glad you got it sorted.

I'm surprised that the drivers were an issue though, especially since the speakers were working and it was only every now and then this was happening. Weird.

Viz_2

I had an issue with my sound a few months ago. I did the exact same thing and updated the drivers. They were perfect again.