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My laptop has no sound from either the built in speakers or if I use headphones. I have turned every volume control I can find to maximum but to no avail. Help! Pablo
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What type of laptop HP , ASUS , COMPAQ , ACER ?.......... Up the
Volume on My HP Laptop
Open the "Start" menu and click on the
"Control Panel" icon.
Locate and open the icon that deals with sound.
Depending on your version of Windows, it will say either
"Sounds and Audio Devices" or "Adjust System Volume."
Adjust the volume under the "Speakers" icon.
To do this, click on the slider bar and move it up on the
slider.
If you need to decrease the volume, simply move the slider
bar down.
Click on "OK" when finished and close the
"Control Panel" window.
Click on the speaker icon in the bottom-right corner of the
screen for a faster volume adjustment. Simply move the slider bar up to
increase the volume and move it back down to decrease the volume.
Volume on an Acer
Laptop
Acer laptops are typically sold with
pre-installed Windows operating systems that offer sound-adjustment features
for increasing the volume on the laptop's built-in stereo speakers.
These same functions can also be used in tandem
with external speakers or headphones to increase the volume, as well as mute
all sound on the laptop.
If the computer should output an unusually low volume,
fixing the problem may be no more involved than sliding a control switch with
the computer mouse. Click once on the speaker icon in the taskbar on the lower-right corner
to open a rectangular window with a slide control.
Click and hold the left mouse button on the slide control to
drag it upward, increasing the volume to the laptop's maximum setting.
Click the "Mixer" button below the slider control
to open another window with volume controls for "Speakers" and
"Applications," adjusting each slide control upward to increase the
volume.
Be sure the speaker icon below each control is not
accidentally muted.
Click once on each speaker icon to remove the red circle
with a slash through it, which will restore audio.
Click the Microsoft flag or "Start" button in the
lower-left corner if the shortcut speaker icon is missing from the taskbar.
Click "Control Panel" to select
"Adjust Sounds" from the Hardware and Sounds category.
Acer laptops are typically sold with pre-installed Windows operating systems that offer sound-adjustment features for increasing the volume on the laptop's built-in stereo speakers. These same functions can also be used in tandem with external speakers or headphones to increase the volume, as well as mute all sound on the laptop. If the computer should output an unusually low volume, fixing the problem may be no more involved than sliding a control switch with the computer mouse.
Click once on the speaker icon in the taskbar on the lower-right corner to open a rectangular window with a slide control. Click and hold the left mouse button on the slide control to drag it upward, increasing the volume to the laptop's maximum setting. Click the "Mixer" button below the slider control to open another window with volume controls for "Speakers" and "Applications," adjusting each slide control upward to increase the volume. Be sure the speaker icon below each control is not accidentally muted. Click once on each speaker icon to remove the red circle with a slash through it, which will restore audio. Click the Microsoft flag or "Start" button in the lower-left corner if the shortcut speaker icon is missing from the taskbar. Click "Control Panel" to select "Adjust Sounds" from the Hardware and Sounds category. Hope this helps
The bleep cold be just a bleep device separate from the speakers. It looks like a round piece of aluminum with a large dot of white solid past on it with a wire attached.
1st. make sure the volume is up all the way.
Then try using a headphone just to make sure the sound card is working.
If the headphones work then it should be a setting somewhere.
Sometime the switch that turns off the speakers when headphones are plugged in gets stuck, try plunging them in and unplugging them out while music is playing.
If they don't work the sound card may be blown but it is still possible it is not.
Also, try Keyboard shortcuts for mute and UN-mute.
Try going to control panel and bring up the sound app and try different options in there for mono and or what ever it has, you may find the answer there.
If the headphones work but nothing else works you can always plug external speakers in the headphone plug.
Your computer should have a little speaker icon in the lower right hand corner of the screen on the taskbar. Click on it and check to make sure that volume slider is set to the maximum volume.
Also check the media player program that you are using for a seperate volume control since most players like Windows Media Player or VLC Media Player will also have their own dedicated volume control somewhere right on the media player window itself. So just make sure this second volume control is also set to maximum.
Otherwise that may simply be as much as your built in laptop speakers are able to achieve. Very few laptops will have loud high performance speakers built-in. Most people simply buy an aftermarket external powered speaker system to plug into the headphone jack of their laptop if they want / need loud high quality sound.
Here are some links to a few models of external powered computer speaker systems that are currently available on EBay:
Restart the computer, plug in and unplug some headphones as the AC'97 has a silly little "remember what volume the headphones were at" feature. Go into the sound mixer (start > run > sndvol32) click options > select advanced controls. If a button exists under the "Master Volume" channel inthe mixer, click it and make sure nothing that would turn off the built-in speakers is checked.
Double click on the volume control at the bottom right corner of the screen or go to control panel (by clicking all programs or windows logo) and choose Sound And Audio Devices. When you are in the volume control panel box, make sure that all volume controls are at its maximum. If this doesn't work, try a different speaker or a headphone. If your speaker/headphone has volume control, set it accordingly. If still nothing, reinstall the driver for your audio device.
There are 2 volume control buttons on the laptop. 1 turns it up 1 turns it down. Try turning the volume up. It may be up high enough for you to hear with headphones but now loud enough to be heard through the speakers.
Have you tried plugging in a regular headphone on the headphone port to see if is a problem with your sound device ot your speakers?? Cause if you plug in a regular headphone and it sounds ok then its a problem with your speakers itself! and if its a problem with your speakers, you might need to get them replaced!
When checking your volume make sure the The Main Volume Control is up and the Wave control is high also!
Some PC/Laptop control audio independently of the operating system! Like there is a lil volume knob right by the speaker jack or a key combination with the Fn key. Look for speaker control on your keyboard! It will look like speakers with an up arrow or looks like more audio, you'll know when you find it!
If those still don't fix your problem there is a possibility its a driver issue! Try to get the latest drivers for your audio device!
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