Question about laptop speakers

[HCI]

I know this is general question but my speakers suddenly went out on my laptop. "Toshiba Satellite with XP and SP2" although all the speaker software is the same on all.

Any Ideas? I have went though the device manager to make sure all the hardware and drivers are still there and also the crappy windows self trouble shooting but still no luck.

 

[charper1]

1. Make sure the correct default audio device is selected.
2. If not that, uninstall & reinstall the audio device via the device mgr.

 

[HCI]

Checked for the default device.
Unistalled everything in device manager then restarted and windows found and reinstalled everything but still no luck.:river

 

[charper1]

weird. any external mute button pressed or something? maybe something internal damaged? a U/R should have repaired a software/driver issue.

 

[HCI]

I think it is something internally I have been though everything and nothing is muted. I have not tried a external set of speakers or headphones so I will try them as soon as I find what my son done with them. :devil:

 

[Stargazer]

That is a good idea with hooking up some external speakers or headphones. That should tell you if it is hardware or software related.

 

[HCI]

Well I got it back working somehow?
I can hear anything that is not going though WMP which is ok cause I have Realplayer which I less prefer but it will work.

 

[charper1]

Try removing and reinstalling that WMP software if you care to get it working. Maybe something is corrupted. If you enable system sounds like windows open and close, can you hear that?

 

[damaged]

Did you try and use System Restore to restore it to a state before the problem arose?

 

[gizzer777]

Real Player

Well I got it back working somehow?
I can hear anything that is not going though WMP which is ok cause I have Realplayer which I less prefer but it will work.

Just an FYI

real player is MAJOR malware/spyware and even though the format is a major success. There are alternatives...use google. I learned about Real software years ago!

 

[charper1]

Correct Gizzer! The offical Real Player is "bad"; the software you speak of should be called RealAlternative.