Wayne Parham Messages: 18793 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
Check the speaker icon on the lower corner of your screen. Make sure you didn't accidentally mute it. Turn the volume up with that control and see what happens.
Check the speaker icon on the lower corner of your screen. Make sure you didn't accidentally mute it. Turn the volume up with that control and see what happens.
Definitely try that first.
If that doesn't work, and you've only just updated to Windows 10, it might be a driver issue. Run an update or google your laptop and "windows 10 drivers" to see if you can update them.
Finally, if you have external speakers try using headphones in the jack (or use the speakers on another device) to make sure the speakers are working.
I don't know what's wrong with Windows 10 since I was in a similar situation a few weeks ago. I checked everything and it just seemed to be a hardware problem. I gave up until last week when the sound seems to have come back on its own.
Thanks guys. Turns out it was something to do with the audio driver. I uninstalled it and turned the laptop off, and when I turned it back on again, it was automatically re-installed. It's cool now.
gofar99 Messages: 1955 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
Illuminati (5th Degree)
Hi, This seems to be an ever more often problem. The more Microsoft fixes things the more things that don't work. A worse issue IMO is that Microsoft installs lots of APPS than I have zero use for on a desk PC. Without telling you either. Fortunately I have two different programs that can ferret them out and I trash them. There were 26 earlier this month in a supposed update. Back to having things quit....my external sound card (twice), my mouse (once), my Ethernet card (once), my graphics program still doesn't function well on attachments to emails and once some unknown failure that caused the PC to go into safe mode. Not a great track record IMO. If I had a really unusual PC I could understand some of the problems. It is mostly typical, ASRock board with an A6 CPU, 4 GB ram, 256 SSD, Siig audio and Nvidia video all on a wired LAN. If Microsoft keeps trying to cater more to phones and tabs it may drive me to Linix. Stepping off my soap box now....
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