My laptop speakers are not working, they gave a cracking sound before stopping hp 550

I think it's a software problem. Unistall drivers. Restart. Reinstall drivers. Restart. Check settings.

1) You can restore the computer to some data that your know was working good.
2) go to the control panel and then Sound open the icon and adjust the speakers.
3) you can disable the driver and update the driver for sound from the www.hp.com
God bless you

you stop the speakers and add vlc media player it works nicely.

sounds like the Audio patch cord, i had around 5 of them that do that ...sometimes i hear the music thru one speaker, cracking noise sometimes it works when the wire is twisted, but i would try a new patch cord first.....my patch cord worked fine on some stereo units others break up

have you tried re-installing the driver? was it working before, has something made it stop? otherwise you might need to replace the bluetooth unit. A external USB one mmay be cheaper.

Sounds like a cracked circuit board. get someone to solder a jumper across the crack to complete the circuit.

hp 550 drivers http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3765010&taskId=135&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3764998〈=en&cc=us&submit=Go%20»

Download Drivers from :

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This will resolve the issue

It may be the speakers are going bad or you may need to update your sound card drivers.Try going to your setting for your sound and make sure the settings are correct.Make sure they are set for laptop stereo speakers with full hardware control.

I had the same problem; my laptop's speakers suddenly stopped working but I could still use the headphones and sound was fine.

I played around a while and searched the net; and I got them to work:

Open Control Panel- Sound, Speech, Audio Devices-------->
1) Audio Tab
2) Under 'Sound Playback' hit Advanced
3) At the bottom where it has Speaker Setup change it to "Laptop Stereo Speakers" (mine was initially on "Desktop Stereo Speakers" for some odd reason)

Problem solved, Thank God (Alhamdulilah)!

Hope it works out for you :)