Laptop Volume My laptop volume doesn't work. I recently had my computer wiped as it had viruses on and as it is an Acer computer I've been told to download the audio drivers off the Acer website but they don't seem to work once downloaded onto my computer. Can you help?

Reinstall drivers for sound. then the volume control(mixer) will be put in the tray.

Laptop's sound can fail to work for a couple of reasons:

(1) the sound drivers are not properly installed - as far as I know, every computer manufacturer's web site will allow you to download their hardware drivers for free. Hope you've already done that.

(2) the sound hardware in the laptop are either disconnected or failed - a small number of laptops actually use separate sound cards (instead of integrating the audio hardware on the main board). Hopefully you've already checked that, too.

(3) the audio output jack (headphone) is damaged - in which case the sound hardware is functioning 100%, but there's no sound produced due to a shorted jack.

That being said, if it's neither of the above, the cheapest means of getting some basic sound to a muted laptop would be a USB sound card and a set of external laptop speakers. If it sounds elaborate and expensive, I assure you it's not. Assuming you're running Windows (hopefully XP or newer), you can buy a USB sound card on eBay for around $2 and pay about the same price for a cheap set of cheesy laptop speakers - plug the USB sound card into a working USB port, plug the speakers into the USB sound card, it's plug and play, and ... viola - you'll get $4 worth of cheap sound. It's a bit cumbersome but it's a cheap workaround that I've done before when a laptop went mute and I had only a shoestring budget to work with...

We're probably missing some information here... but, I recently upgraded an ACER to Windows 7, the volume control would not work at all. I had to download drivers from the ACER website for Win-7, then all worked well.

The problem is with your laptop keyboard driver, Reinstall it. The driver is provided in disc included with laptop. You can also download it from acer website OR go to this link http://www.acer.co.in/ac/en/IN/content/drivers and select your laptop model number and Operating System installed in your laoptop.

I have had that laptop once and had the same problem. I knew that it was the maximum volume of the speaker so I purchased external USB speakers to connect to the computer and the sound was clear and loud enough to hear anything played on the computer.

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You should install the sound card driver. The proper drivers should be given while buying your laptop. If not or you lost it, you cn download the driver from acer's site.

hi there, if this was recent, try doing a system restore a day before it happened. If your kids played with it, they may have gone on a site where a virus was present. If you want to reinstall the drivers, go to the Acer website and ask for technical support.

Have you reloaded your laptop's operating system, as well as all drivers for other parts of your computer, like Wireless and CD/DVD driver? Did the computer actually have a virus? Viruses best removed with antivirus software before wiping the entire Hard Drive. Let me know if this is not helpful ... [email protected]

Try the Fn key and F11 or F12 - that should turn up/down the volume on your Acer, depending on the model

Hope this helps - good luck!

Try downloading the drivers for your computer from the computers website.