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05-29-2008, 09:52 PM
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Name: Glenn City: Baskerville State: VA County: Mecklenburg Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 59 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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My laptop has suddenly lost sound capabilities, both through internal and external speakers which I have used through earphone jack  Any ideas from our resident IT hardware people ? I have heard of MP3 type devices getting gunk in headphone sockets which disable internal speakers as though a headphone jack was plugged in Anyone heard of this occuring on a laptop? Sound settings appear to be set correctly. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. 
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05-29-2008, 10:03 PM
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Name: Bas City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 35 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Hmmm, many laptops have a "mute" button as well as volume up/ down somewhere on the case. What model do you have? Mine has them top left of the keyboard. Some have them in the center in front of the keyboard (or side) Any chance you hit that by mistake? If both internal and external speakers are silent, it's probably not the speakers!
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05-29-2008, 10:06 PM
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Name: Tracy City: Salisbury State: NC County: Rowan Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 47 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Sounds like a sound card problem possibly. Most laptops have them intergrated with the main board.
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05-29-2008, 10:07 PM
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Name: Glenn City: Baskerville State: VA County: Mecklenburg Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 59 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by Bas  Hmmm, many laptops have a "mute" button as well as volume up/ down somewhere on the case. What model do you have? Mine has them top left of the keyboard. Some have them in the center in front of the keyboard (or side) Any chance you hit that by mistake? If both internal and external speakers are silent, it's probably not the speakers! Laptop mute button does not seem to be engaged , when depressed it lights as designed. This is a Compaq machine. 
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05-29-2008, 10:09 PM
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Name: Glenn City: Baskerville State: VA County: Mecklenburg Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 59 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by newtowood Sounds like a sound card problem possibly. Most laptops have them intergrated with the main board. Integrated as in non-replaceable ? 
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05-29-2008, 10:25 PM
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Name: RAS City: Pikeville State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Try reloading the sound driver
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05-29-2008, 10:26 PM
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Name: Tracy City: Salisbury State: NC County: Rowan Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 47 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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the sound cards are built on the main board. however some facilitate add on cards. My experience with Compaq tech support has been good in most instances. It could be something as simple as a driver issue or conflict. I would try calling Compaq tech support.
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05-29-2008, 11:13 PM
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Name: Glenn City: Baskerville State: VA County: Mecklenburg Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 59 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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05-29-2008, 11:17 PM
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Glad you got it working again. Puters can be frustrating at times can't they? I have built a good deal of computers from scratch and still tend to overlook the simple stuff when something goes wrong. 
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Once again I did not check the obvious before panic set in. One of the sound control sliders was all the way down but I just checked to see if any mute buttions were activated 
All ok now, thanks guys !!! 
