I can't hear any sound from my computer, at all.?

Question

Earlier today, I was able to watch a video on YouTube, and the sound was just fine. Several hours later, I went to play a game, and I found I had no sound at all. I then tried playing some music. Nothing. I went and turned my mic on to see if I could hear any ambient sounds (like rubbing my fingers on the boom of it), and still nothing. Then I went to plug in my speakers, and still no sound. Mind you, I keep the volume at max at all times... did I blow out my sound card?

Yup. I rebooted.

Well, originally, I had my headphones directly plugged into the sound card. I did swap them with my speakers, to ensure it wasn't my headphones, but no sound came from my speakers either (other than the crackling sound while trying to plug them in). I will fiddle with the sound drivers and update my question afterward.

Alexander : as above details, I didn't blow out my headphones, unless I happened to do it simultaneously with a pair of unplugged speakers. ^_~ I ensured I plugged them in the correct port (actually, since I can't really *see* the back of my computer, I wound up plugging it in all three ports while Winamp was playing, so by all rights, I should have heard something). Someone couldn't have messed with the settings, since I've been sitting here all morning (and I had already checked for anything muted earlier). I do not have integrated sound (as far as I understand it). This is, by no means, a new computer... it's about 5 years old.

Edit: Last detail was meant to Blade, not Alexander. Plus, I wouldn't need new drivers if I got new speakers. Drivers have nothing to do with speakers, but rather the "inner workings" of the communication of the hardware with the motherboard.

I checked out the drivers, and they're all there. I am also unable to do a rollback, since I disabled that when I first got the computer (kind of a major hinderance on a small hard drive).

Lol. In frustration, I rebooted a second time. Guess what. It works again. Thanks for all the advice... the simplest answers are usually the right ones.

Answer 1

did you reboot?

Answer 2

You probably blew up the speakers probably not the sound card. The sound card only transmits the signal, while the speakers produce the sound. Try testing it with a different set of speakers and make sure everything is in their right ports. Nowadays, most computer manufacturers would put labels and colored to where you need to hook everything up. Another possibility is that somebody muted your the sounds setting. To see if this is so, go to Accessories in your Start up menu. Go to Entertainment menu and select volume control to see if you see the mute boxed checked. If so, simply click on it and you should get your sound back. If you tried all these all of these things, I would either think that your motherboard is acting up because most motherboards come with integrated sound. If you have a sound card, then that would probably be the problem. You can find new parts for your system by going to new egg if you know how to install new parts. If not, call up your computer's manufacturer to see what they have to say. If this is a new computer too, it should be under warranty and they will have a guy come out to see what the trouble is with your computer for you. I highly doubt you need new drivers unless they are new speakers that you just connected.

Answer 3

You might want to try a different set of speakers to see if it works if you blew them out. If not you could have screwed up some your sound driver. You can go in to your control panel - Systems - Hardware - then click on the Device manager tab.. look and see if your audio drivers are still installed. If not you can go into Microsoft.com and download another audio driver. You can also try going back and go through previous checkpoint on your PC so that your computer can relapse and fix the problem.

Answer 4

appears like your audio motive force is the two disabled or lacking. try this: flow on your initiate button, flow on your administration Panel, elect device. on the Hardware tab, elect "gadget supervisor". There would desire to be an expandable option observed as "Sound, Video, and interest Controllers". If there is, amplify that, and navigate on your Audio motive force (that's one in all those categories/producers, so i won't call it right here). appropriate click it, elect properties, and it will demonstrate its prestige for you. you additionally can elect to enable/disable it. in case you do no longer see your motive force or the Sound/Video/GameController menu, then your motive force is in all probability lacking/uninstalled. you will would desire to reinstall it, which could be executed out of your desktops producer internet site (working example, the two Dell/HP/Toshiba/and so on. web pages) it can be a somewhat basic, step via step technique to place in the motive force.