Hi, My speakers won't

posted by shortfuse51 on Jul 12, 2008

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Hi,
My speakers won't work on my "Vista" laptop. I have made 3 trips to bestbuy. "it's 20 miles round trip." The geek guy got them working,when I play DVD movie. befor they worked on music only,could not get them to work on music. They geeks got them working with the DVD part , now they won't work with my music. I have them home and they won't work.
My speakers are "NS20908"

Comment by shortfuse51, posted on Jul 18, 2008

I don't know? The speakers in my laptop? The portables I just bought?
I did find they will work all the time with a DVD playing. But once in awhile with downloaded on my laptop.

I have the same problem.

Clarification Request

by exon33, posted on Jul 18, 2008

What kind of laptop do you have? This is all fixable. I take it you have X-530 speakers?

Solution #1

posted on Jul 19, 2008

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Your Majorgeek seems to have been a Minorgeek. When you purchase external speakers to use with your laptop, you must configure your laptop for them. Since your system appears to have worked before you tried to use external speakers, I doubt that you have a problem with your sound device driver. Still,
go to control panel,and check device manager to see if you have any problems. If you have a problem flagged, let me know. If not, click on Hardware and Sound, then on Sound, and see how your laptop speakers are configured. Majorgeek should have turned off your internal laptop speakers and configured them for your external speakers. If they didn't, that likely explains your problem. Configure them and test the sound there.

If you need to use your laptop speakers (say you take your laptop somewhere without your external speakers) you will need to reconfigure your sound to the laptop speakers whenever you need to use them. Let me know if this solved your problem.

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