Hello,
I had to have everything re-loaded onto my computer, at a local shop. Now everything thing works except my speakers, or even headphones on the front plug. I have made sure everything is plugged in correctly, turned on, all the volumes are set at the highest level possible. All my drivers (SB Live) say they are fine and working. Please help me.
Do the following:
Go into
-> control panel
-> device manager (must be an administrator)
-> sound, video and game controllers
- Right click on your audio device
- choose "disable"
- wait a moment and right click, choose "enable"
Should be working perfectly!
Are you from Central Michigan University? If so wanted to say hi, and was wondering how it was going? This is Chester from BCA 342 avd. audio class. Anyway I lost my audio randomly while I was streaming music from Pandora. I had headphones in and bumped the power cord to my Gateway Laptop, and poof my audio was gone.
I'm running windows 7. All of my drivers are up to date. I've tried setting default audio disabling and re-enabling it, and a few other things I can't recall atm. Nothing seems to work. However when I look into the playback options it says that no jack information is found for my default speakers. I'm wondering if that could be the problem? Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Thank you!!! I just googled this the right way this time because last time I tried to figure out why the speakers, headset jack, and even the microphone weren't working anymore I didn't have any success. Thank you :) You just made my day!
Ok, I had the same exact problem, except that I have windows vista. I hope that this helps you out because I know it can be a little annoying. First, go to your control panel, then you go to hardware and sound. In the hardware and sound, you will see this thing that says sound. Click sound, and a little screen will pop-up, double click speakers, then another little screen will pop-up. On the first tab, it'll say controller information, then whatever it is, next to it (on the right side) there will be a button that says properties. Click on that, and another screen will pop up, click on the little tab that says driver, and you will see all these options, click on update driver, and maybe it'll work. Hope it works with XP, I kinda doubt that it's the same programs, but it's something.
hay chris my speakers dnt work nd I tried that (i have a vista ) and when I got to the last part it wouldnt let me click on update driver do yu have any idea what I can do ?
i have an idea for that. I also followed the direction which chris has already gave, anyways there is a button which you can change the settings or( change settings) click that and there u go, ur now allowed to cick the update the hardware.
hi chris.... I really appreciated posting you're idea about not working my speakers and headphone as well in my laptop... I also had windows vista...thanks a lot...always take care.
I found that I have a win32tool, or something like that virus that is keeping my speakers from working, I have tried spybot and my own anti virus software to try and get rid of it, but I can't get it off. Any suggestions?
i have xp when I went to control panel and I clicked on sound and stuff it says that there is no audio device found ,but when I connected my speaker plug in my I pod it works . so what should I do now ????????? pls help me
Hey, basicly I have the same problem, my speakers and headphones are not working, I followed your instrustions and I did all of it, but it says at the end after I click update driver "the driver for your device is up to date" and my speakers or headphones are still not working? Can you help me please? X
i cant find the hardware and sound maybe because I have windows vista can u tell me the way u fixed it on your computer since we have the same type of symstem? Pleeze & Thanx!
look I have xp and it doesnt say anything about sound and hardware btw I am not stupid but for xp (sucks) it only says shit like sounds speech and when I get something started what happens is it tells me hardware not installed properly except I have done the speakers twice then when I got it going (once) it said you are not the administrater even though I am the only person on the computer an I am the only one with an icon.but on my friends he wanted to know if you could change the administer sould u please help please
Hey guys, I was actually reading all your comments in hopes of finding a solution myself. I had the same problem most of you have or had.
I'm running a Vista Home Premium 6-bit laptop/notebook, and my sound drivers/cards are "Avnex Virtal Audio Device" and "Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221"
There are other two which I found to be useless so I won't name them.
My laptop (gateway) was working perfectly fine until I plugged in a pair of headphones, then all my sound completely went away. I was going insane and thought about unistalling my sound cards and installing new ones, but I'm not good with computers and was going to mess it all up worse, so I decided not to.
Anyway, I couldn't find an answer, and non of yours seemed to work, so I fooled around with them, and finally ended up Making the Conexant speaker the default speakers.
I did this by going to Control Panel > Sound >
And you'll see the speakers there. I had Avnex as my default, so I pressed on it, And pressed Properties. Then I went through all the taps and tested everyone. Non seemed to work. So I went to Conexant and did the same thing. The test worked and I heard some beeping sounds.
My Fiancee next to me asked me why Avnex was the default, and I said I didn't know, it was that way before I did anything, so I got the idea to make Conexant the default drivers and it worked. I started getting the beeping sounds when I get a pop up or something, so I tried my Itunes and WALAH! :D
I thought I had burned down my speakers or something because (being a huge fan of downloads) I have kept my laptop on 3 days in a row now. (the file is huge and my internet is BLAH. *cough* Comcast *cough*) and my laptop has gotten BURNING underneath.
I solved this problem on my asus p5 plus by updating drivers. I did a search for via high definition drivers for 64 bit win7 and obtained a sizable download called v7300A zip. I ran the setup and bingo- front speaker/ mike jacks work fine now.
dude why dont my headphones work when I plug em in my laptop I think its because of this program I downloaded called hig definition audio'' for some reason I cant remove that program please help
hey I had xp on my comp and my speakers which were plugged in the back jack socket worked fine. I installed vista home edition and I had no sound , my speakers in the bottom right hand corner has a cross and it says "no audio output device installed." I have tread all the comments and followed step by step , I have all the current drivers updfated yet my headphones and speakers arent detected when they are plugged in either jack plug.
can somebody give me a link to get a sound card driver for my pakard bell istart 1379, I had vista, removed it and installed xp now my speakers dont work
UMMM yeah..... I tried all of chris's excellent advice and some of you guys too but so far it's not working. It's probably because I don't have my original realtek audio speakers. They got lost when I moved and my friend gave me anothers set. They're Harman/Kardon. They work fine when I plug my ipod in but they don't work with my computer please Help!!!!!! I'd really appreciate if u did. I'm too broke to go get professional help. I barely can pay for my internet!!!!
i have an acer aspire 5720 running vista. I recently got the hard drive replaced as the old one was screwed.everything seemed to be working fine after I got it back until a few days ago when I was using the line-in input to record using the sound recorder. after unplugging the cord from the line-in jack, no audio seemed to work. internal speakers, internal microphone and all three jacks on the front panel aren't working. ive tried plugging headphones in but they don't even show up as being plugged in. when I try to play something, it registers in the volume mixer as playing through the speakers but I still can't hear anything. ive installed and reinstalled Realtek HD Audio but it doesnt seem to make a difference.ive looked in the devide manager and it says everything is working fine.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated :)
the best way to get them working is to go to task manager and delete explorer then type in explorer.exe in the open program box found somewhere on task manager then it should work
ive had this problem befor it will be because your sound dirver is uninstalled to findout go to control panel> system >click on the hardware tab at the top>divice manager> now if there are any yellow question marks with explenation marks next to it they will be uninstalled drivers just enter them into google and download them
Make sure your Volume onspeech,and Audio devices the computer isnt on mute... To check push start,controlpanel,Sounds,then press the system volume you should beable to get it from there. :)
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