Computers hate me!

babyshoes

Aargh. I am using my OH's computer at the moment, as she has gone away and taken the laptop. I watched something last night, then put the PC on hibernate and went out. When I got back, I turned the PC back on and found that there was suddenly no sound at all.

I have established that all the wires I can see which should be connected are connected - though there is no obvious reason why they should have come out, as I was out and we don't have a cat or dog which could have pulled them out. The power light is lit on the speakers and on the amp under the desk.

I have also checked that the volume is up and nothing is on mute. I have re-booted the pc just in case.

Does anyone have any ideas what else I could try (bearing in mind that I am supremely un-technical), or do I have to live without iplayer until she gets back to fix it? :eek:

Lokolo

Have you tried anything other than iplayer?

babyshoes

Yes, I have tried youtube and 4oD. Not even the windows noise plays on startup.

Marauder999

It isnt a Dell laptop by any chance?
My Dell keeps doing this and is generally fixed with a reboot but seeing as you have already tried that all I can suggest it try rebooting again.
You could check to see if the Drivers have any yellow crosses against them tho but if you are a novice then you probs need to be walked through this.

free4440273

try a reinstall of sound drivers and/or a system restore/ they don't hate you --- just treat them nicely

bengalknights

goto control panel and uninstall the sound card download the latest driver then restart and let it reinstall hopefully that should solve the issue.

redcard

Windows sleep / hibernate functions are notoriously unreliable - best just to switch the thing off

closed

ditto - reboot

debitcardmayhem

from post 1 I have also checked that the volume is up and nothing is on mute. I have re-booted the pc just in case.

Minus 1 for hibernate ... used it for 5 years with XP/Vista/7 no reliablity probs here(other than can't be b***ered to wait for full start-up ) never use sleep here tho??

eyeinthesky

Look in the system tray in the bottom right of the screen, find the speaker icon, right click and open the sound manager. Have a look around there, you will probably find that the sound has been turned off or disabled. Try checking a few boxes in there, you will probably get it working again.

rdpro

if you have windows 7, is a 'known-ish' bug - Start > Control Panel > Device Manager; Locate your 'faulty' device in the list (in your case, probably IDHC Audio), right-click on it, select uninstall but do not remove driver when asked (only remove driver if it fails after next steps)

Go to Actions and select hardware changes (or similar) - rescan and W7 should pick up your 'lost' hardware again.

I really hope this is fixed in the next service pack!