Sound stopped working on computer

sahun

New computer, has been working alright all today, and now the sound has stopped working, and havent got a clue why. I have a basic idea about computers, so i know it isnt set to mute, the right cables are wired up and to the right places, yet no sound.
It is a vista computer so has that realtek audio manager so dont know if thats affected anything, ive unplugged and replugged in the cable from the modem to the moniter (yes the sound on the moniter is turned on)

So basically i havent a clue, and the more observant of you will have noticed, ive been having a few different problems and queries over this computer.

So any ideas of how to fix this problem??

sco0ter

Have you checked device manager to make sure that there isnt any errors with the hardware???

sahun

...ok advancement to the problem, it has started making the default pings computers do, and msn does its routine beep if someone talks to me. Yet it will not play music or any sound on a web page

sahun

sco0ter wrote: »

Have you checked device manager to make sure that there isnt any errors with the hardware???

Device manager says that everything is working properly, soundwise and monitorwise.

Have tried using headphones but has not made a difference

Toxteth_OGrady

Try running the sound tests in DXDiag. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DxDiag

:cool:

TOG

Garetha

Do you have a loudspeaker icon at bottom right near the time?

• Double click this (or find it via control panel, sounds ...)
• Click on mixer
• Check for any muted or turned down volumes

(The above is from my Vista Home Premium Dell laptop - so may be different on yours)

sahun

Garetha wrote: »

Do you have a loudspeaker icon at bottom right near the time?

• Double click this (or find it via control panel, sounds ...)
• Click on mixer
• Check for any muted or turned down volumes

(The above is from my Vista Home Premium Dell laptop - so may be different on yours)

thanks garetha but if you read my first post then you could see that i have already checked nothing is muted/turned down.

sahun

OK it has now randomly started working again, honestly dont know how or why it stopped working!!!
But when the DirectX thing has finished installing ill run the diagnostic and see if has anything to say, so thanks for your help guys :T

loksat

Right click on the sound icon and click playback devices

Click on all tabs and right click on each device and test them.