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Best answer
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!
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!
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thanks its really very healpfull and really working.
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Thanks so much! I was so confused when my headphones didn't work. Thank you! :D
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.
-Chris
-Chris
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.
Anyway, hoped I helped. :)
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.
Anyway, hoped I helped. :)
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.
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 :)
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated :)
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!!!!
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