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Sound on my laptop not working anymore
Thread poster: Manuela Junghans
Manuela Junghans
Manuela Junghans  Identity Verified
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Jan 9, 2011

Hi all

I hope there´s a technically versed person out there who can help me with a very easy solution to my problem.

Last night when I switched off my laptop the sound was still working and today I tried to watch a video (also tried tv) and there´s just absolutely no sound.

I´ve checked all the volume controls and they are all fully up.
Could I accidentally have changed something that prevents the sound from working?

Can someone maybe ... See more
Hi all

I hope there´s a technically versed person out there who can help me with a very easy solution to my problem.

Last night when I switched off my laptop the sound was still working and today I tried to watch a video (also tried tv) and there´s just absolutely no sound.

I´ve checked all the volume controls and they are all fully up.
Could I accidentally have changed something that prevents the sound from working?

Can someone maybe give me a clue what could have happened or did someone at some point encounter a similar problem and could provide me with the hopefully obvious solution? This is very odd indeed.

Thanks for any help.

Manuela ▲ Collapse
 
Jerzy Czopik
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Try to mute and unmute your system Jan 9, 2011

Did you just hibernate your laptop or switched it fully off, causing a system restart?
In the first case a system restart could also be helpfull.
Any headphones/external loudspeaker connected?
 
Manuela Junghans
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Germany
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Hi Jerzy Jan 9, 2011

I just hibernated the laptop, but that´s what I usually do and there never was any problem with the sound before.

There aren´t any headphones etc. connected, but I did try to connect headphones and they didn´t work either.

I will try a restart now, hoping that this will help.

I´m not sure if I understand what you´ve said about muting and unmuting the system? How do I do that?
 
Jerzy Czopik
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Show at the volume symbol Jan 9, 2011

right click it and select "Mute", then deselect this setting.
Sometimes this setting simply "hangs"
 
Manuela Junghans
Manuela Junghans  Identity Verified
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It´s working now... Jan 9, 2011

the restart seems to have fixed it, it´s now working again.

Never had that before, and hopefully won´t have it happen again...

thanks so much for your help Jerzy shock on the Sunday morning overcome...

Have a nice Sunday
 
Jean Lachaud
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Restarting solves many issues Jan 9, 2011

especially on laptops. Added bonus: it is cheap.
 


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