re: Sudden Audio Loss
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 5:12 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Special-K
(582 messages posted)
Normally the solution is to delete the device from the Hardware Manager from the
Control Panel and reboot. Windows should then recognise a "new" audio device and
install default drivers.
On Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 1:44 pm, colinp wrote:
>
>Hi All,
>
>I'm running Vista on a new Dell Inspiron 1720 notebook, and for the first couple
>of months everything was going relatively well. However, in the middle of the day
>yesterday all audio on my computer suddenly stopped working. I don't remember having
>made any changes, but suddenly my computer wouldn't play audio files or make any
>sound whatsoever. I've tried downloading the most recent versions of my audio drivers
>(SigmaTel high definition audio codec), uninstalling and re-installing the drivers,
>reinstalling all of the audio software that came with the computer, and even doing
>a system restore from a save point several days prior to the event, but none of
these
>had any effect. I thought it might be hardware related, but I ran some tests and
>the hardware itself works fine; if I go into the bios menu or boot from Dell's diagnostic
>partition I can at least get the some basic beeps. Does anyone have a thought about
>what might be going on here?
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- Sudden Audio Loss (colinp: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 1:44 pm)
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