My sound has disappeared.

schiff

The sound on my laptop has virtually disappeared. The volume icon on my taskbar is on maximum and I've checked everything via Control Panel.

No jingle when I open up, no ping for an incoming e-mail, won't play music CDs, won't play the sound on e-mail attachments - but it will play the sound on film DVDs. Seems very odd that but there must be a simple explanation I bet? It was working OK yesterday and I've only updated Real Player since. Could it be that, I wonder?

Help needed please - any ideas?

schiff

garcia

Have you tried double-clicking the speaker icon on your taskbar so you can get access to all the system volume levels?

schiff

Muchas gracias Garcia!

Did it & it worked (my Spanish is very limited!). There were four sliders on the display and two were at the bottom - I moved them up to the middle. No real idea what I was doing but hey! it worked.

schiff :beer:

Just_Looking_3

schiff wrote:

Muchas gracias Garcia!

There were four sliders on the display and two were at the bottom - I moved them up to the middle. schiff :beer:

One wonders why they moved on their own, doesn't one. :rolleyes:

frestuffwooo

This often happens to me after using video/music playback or editing programs - dont know why - must be due to the programs iternel soubd levels?

garcia

schiff wrote:

Did it & it worked (my Spanish is very limited!).
schiff :beer:

Guess what? Mine too!

Just_Looking_3

garcia wrote:

Guess what? Mine too!

Oh heck, not you too. :eek:

Mr_C_10

Mine vanished a while back (had a thread in here funnily enough) and I still don't know how to solve it, a good pal of mine who knows his stuff looged on to my pc via remote assistance and he also hit a brick wall.

Are there any programmes I can run that might give me a clue what the problem is ?

garcia

Have you double-clicked your speaker icon?

Does *any* sound come out ever???

schiff

Mr_C wrote:

Mine vanished a while back (had a thread in here funnily enough) and I still don't know how to solve it, a good pal of mine who knows his stuff looged on to my pc via remote assistance and he also hit a brick wall.

Are there any programmes I can run that might give me a clue what the problem is ?

I'm making a note of what Senor Garcia told me - for future reference, should it ever happen again. Suggest you do the same! I've given up trying to understand the whys of computer behaviour. I find it's enough to know the possible solution(s).

schiff

Mr_C_10

garcia wrote:

Have you double-clicked your speaker icon?

Does *any* sound come out ever???

Tried everything , driver reboot etc, still nada

A trip to my local pc repair shop is looking likely. Not a bleep for the last couple of months.