Thanks Grazie - I've done that several times - it happened yesterday and has been silent since.

I'm glad I've got another machine to work with, but .....

I've even tried removing then replacing the sound card, but no luck yet.

Ugh . .. .

Checked your Prefs?:



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What happened yesterday?

Check Cables.

Check OUTPUT from Green to another option/speaker.

. . thinking 'ere . . .

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Good questions Grazie - yesterday I did have problems booting, but eventually got into Windows ok.

This morning similar, so I unplugged the PC, vacuumed the dust, reseated sound card etc, and it booted fine, but no sound ....

Have you tried outputting to another Audio monitor/speaker? Anything.

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Are your speakers switched ON? Can you plug the speakers into another SOURCE and check?

. . I'm still trying . .

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Yes thanks for trying Grazie - yes, I'd already unplugged the speakers, & plugged them into my Mobile and they're working fine.

welcome to my world.... well unless the knobs at 7+

i suppose you've tried plugging into mb audio output? with/without audio card.

and, i suppose you've opened up windows own sound mixer and checked nothings muted or switched to the wrong output?

my sympathies..

Thanks Leslie - yes I tried those - it could be the sound card has died, but Windows says its fine.

I have a USB sound card on another PC which I'll try ......

did you try the motherboard audio out?

Yes Leslie, sorry I didn't reply on this before.

I've put the speaker plug into the MB speaker out, but I'm not quite sure how we "switch" output from one card to another (Windows 7) but no results so far ...

If you haven't already done this, this is the first thing I'd check. Your config might be different than this, but that correct output device should be selected.



...Jerry

Good point Jerry!

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thanks jerry, that's what i meant about windoz own sound mixer...

Thanks guys, yes I have been trying the Windows mixer - strangely when I select the Green speaker outlet it says speakers are not plugged in, even though they are.

One thing that really peeves me is that just about every online solution I've sought seems to lead to a registry scanner which finds lots of faults than wants me to register so it can fix. I don't trust these.

Not sure whether the screen pic will show correctly, but these windows are telling me that the Black digital output on the Realtek board is active, not the Green one, but even if I plug the speakers into the black socket, nothing changes.

Sorry, I can't get the image to happen - it's sitting on Dropbox here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/riff5byo52ln0cs/Realtek%20Screen.jpg

peter, take the s off https and it'll show up...

really very strange, what's your mb?

Pete, while in DB right click on the JPG and choose SHARE DROPBOX LINK. And it's that you post here. Did you do that?

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You need that SHARE DB Link.

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Yes Grazie, that's the link I posted above, but when I incorporated it in [ ....] brackets and added "img=" inside the [ ] it didn't work, even when I removed the s from http

I guess it's just not my night.

I see your piccie now.

OK, try Right Click on each of those "Not Plugged In" speaker devices and choose DISABLE. As here:-



Yours are RED - mine are GREYED-OUT.

Just making sure - yeah?

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I tried that Grazie - but it keeps reporting the Green/normal speaker output as not plugged in, even though it is!

... and it has the digital/black output as the default device, and even if I disable it, I can't enable the green one.

I think I'll sleep on it, and I'm out working all day tomorrow, so I'm giving it plenty of time to change its mind...