PC not starting up

macman

You seem far more concerned about a temporary loss of sound than a potentially permanent loss of data. If you haven't backed up, do it now, because your hard drive could fail again at any time, and this time it may be permanent, if you dropped the PC.
Check the sound via Control Panel to see which device has failed: could be hardware or the drivers that are the problem-or your attempted rewire, which certainly had nothing to do with the hard drive working again. Might be an idea to replace the wiring as it was before.

tavernman

macman wrote: »

You seem far more concerned about a temporary loss of sound than a potentially permanent loss of data. If you haven't backed up, do it now, because your hard drive could fail again at any time, and this time it may be permanent, if you dropped the PC.
Check the sound via Control Panel to see which device has failed: could be hardware or the drivers that are the problem-or your attempted rewire, which certainly had nothing to do with the hard drive working again. Might be an idea to replace the wiring as it was before.

Just a suggestion really and too late for you but before you move anything take pictures using your smartphone/camera and then make sure where everything goes

sebastianj

I have changed the Home page to msn and IE as the search engine, and somehow managed to get the windows to work, and once sure all ok i will back up the system. the pc has a subwoofer/ speaker set, I think the subwoofer has packed up and taken the sound with it.

seb

tavernman

sebastianj wrote: »

I have changed the Home page to msn and IE as the search engine, and somehow managed to get the windows to work, and once sure all ok i will back up the system. the pc has a subwoofer/ speaker set, I think the subwoofer has packed up and taken the sound with it.

seb

Are you sure the cable is in the correct socket ? Have you tried headphones in the headphone jack?

sebastianj

There is a Balance knob on one of the speakers, by turning it to one end I get very low sound coming from the other speaker, when configuring them. I tried a small Phone ear plug but no sound comes out of that.
seb