Why is there no sound on my computer?

[underpants]

it is an emachine using pretty standard Windows stuff and Internet Explorer

I have checked the sound thingie in the bottom right corner of the screen. Tried with and without earphones.

:shrug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Do you have speakers?

If you do, are they turned up?

It's the only thing I could think of!

Good luck.

:hi:

[underpants]

3. Yep

:shrug:

[rug]

2. Are you plugged in?

[underpants]

4. Yep

:shrug:

[Orrex]

5. Is it in the woods? With no one there to hear it?

[underpants]

16. The funny is strong in this one

:rofl:

[gmoney]

6. Restart?

speakers plugged in? switched on?

[underpants]

7. Did that. Yep. Yep

:shrug:

[hippywife]

8. Check the volume settings on what you

are trying to listen to, and the speakers, and the central volume control on your computer.

[Chan790]

9. Do you know how to check the drivers for your sound card?

If not, what OS are you running?

As long as it's not Win7 or Windows 3.1 I can probably walk you though it (but not those two OSs because I haven't used a Win 3.1 machine in about 15 years and the only Win7 machine I've ever used doesn't let me have admin access so I don't know how to do anything in Control Panel.)

[underpants]

12. It is Win7

[gvstn]

10. Have you had sound recently?

If it just started today then the simplest thing would be to restart and let all your drivers get reloaded it may have just been a quirk while windows was loading up.


Did you right-click the speaker at the bottom right to fully open the controls? Make sure none of the choices is muted.

Otherwise it could be a missing audio driver (but unlikely it would just disappear).

[underpants]

11. Yeah my daughter was playing a Dora game on line

no problem.
the earphones dropped off the desk and hit the reset on the surgeprotector.

NOW the speaker icon is gone-THAT just happened.

[gvstn]

13. In win7

Try Start/Orb and then Help and Support on the right hand side. In Help window type troubleshoot sound. It will give you an option to start the troubleshooter. I haven't used it but Win7 is very good at automatically fixing problems. See what it says.

[underpants]

14. You lost me at Start/Orb

Sorry to be so dumb about these things

[underpants]

15. GOT IT!!!!

Something was disabled. IT fixed it.

thanks

[gvstn]

18. Glad you got it sorted!

I turned on Hawaii Five-O and let this thread slide.

I'm running Win7 and must admit that Microsoft got their automatic troubleshooters just about right. I know I've had a few networking problems over the past several months and it has always been able to fix things automatically. Back in XP all the troubleshooter did was ask a bunch of irrelevant questions and then end up with no suggestions. Sometimes new things really are progress.

[petronius]

17. Have you purchased any other electronic devices recently?

Your computer could be jealous and is giving you the silent treatment...

Don't know much about Windows 7, but if you have automatic updates running it's possible that a new (and non-functioning) driver was installed. You could try rolling back to the previous driver. Or, you could try running Windows update to see if a new driver is available.