Speakers no longer working

Go to the Dell web site and down load new drivers for your speakers. then they will work.

control panel sounds and audio,volume you can adjust the volume or
advanced,speakers select appropriate speakers or
audio you will find 3 drop down lists make sure you have selected the right speakers or control panel,administrive tools,computer management,device manager scroll to sound,video and game cotrollers could be a yellow question mark? right click to re-install drivers
hope this helps

if it is through a headphone jack the computer will never recognize the speakers you'll have to right click on the speaker icon on your tool bar lower right corner and select adjust audio properties the click advance and select desktop speakers,

shut down the computer then unplug the speaker.then wait a little and restart it. as soon as it is ready,plug in the speaker. It should recognize and search for drivers. and the it should work fine. .

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using web...enter the details for your speakers and locate relevant specs ...you can progress from there

hi Avsandrick
Happy Holidays!
Doing a driver search don't help much, so I recommend 2 things here, wait until MS, make a Service Pack Cd, for Vista, or go to the Altec Lansing Page and see if for your particular model, there are drivers for vista.
other than that, a generic sound driver, could fix the problem.

This is due to your Drivers for your sound device are unavailable plz make sure that you have installed all your audio devices driver! try to reinstall it! it will help you

Try the speakers in another computer, to see if the speakers work, at all.

Make sure that the "audio" cable is connected to the GREEN "line-out" socket on your computer's audio-output. Not PINK, and not BLUE.

have you plugged anything else in to make sure the usb port is working? does the computer recognize the usb speakers when you plug the usb plug into the computer? do the speakers work on another computer? if you wiggle the usb wires around does it make a sound through the speakers? eliminate these questions so that we can move on to isolating the issue.