Speakers/Sound

[Pumpkin]

This is probably going to end up being something stupid, but my computer sound doesn't work. It has an x over the volume, as if on mute, and when I try to unmute it, it starts troubleshooting and says my speakers are unplugged. I've checked all of my plugs and nothing is unplugged. Any ideas?

Thank you!

[CimminyCricket]

Right click on it and click on playback devices. Then post a picture of what it looks like for me! Mine looks like

[Pumpkin]

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[CimminyCricket]

Okay, open up the device manager. If you're on Win 8/8.1 you can just right click on the start button and find it on that pop up menu, or if you're on Vista/7 you can right click on the Computer/My Computer and select manage. Navigate to the point here and show me what you see.
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[Pumpkin]

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This part?

[CimminyCricket]

That part yes. You're using laptop or desktop?

[Pumpkin]

Desktop

[CimminyCricket]

Can you upload a photo of the back of your desktop (or front of you plug your speakers in there)?

[Pumpkin]

http://i.imgur.com/mUAhM2g.jpg

?

[CimminyCricket]

Unless your speakers are USB, it doesn't look like you have anything for sound plugged in. The pinkish port underneath the blue and green all the way to the right would be your speakers. VGA doesn't transfer sound, so what I would do now is look on the front for a port that has a picture of headphones on it, throw some headphones in that bad boy and see if sound works there.

And my next question would be, has it worked previously?

[Pumpkin]

I don't usually have anything for sound plugged in, it just comes out of the computer, but now it's on like perma-mute and says nothing is plugged in, when I've never plugged anything in before?

I plugged in headphones and it unmuted. How do I get it to work without the headphones?

[CimminyCricket]

Some computers have a little device on the motherboard that looks like this:
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It may be that your computer has one of these and it has burned out. It has been a long time since I have had a computer with one of these on it and I don't remember if it played sounds or not, but I going going to assume it did more than just play generic system sounds.

You could always run to Goodwill or something and pick up a set of speakers for less than $10 if you want something you can see.

[Pumpkin]

Alrighty, thanks Cim. I can't use headphones for too long or it aggravates my ears, so I'd rather not have to use them :<

[CimminyCricket]

If you want, you can pop the case open and take another picture. The only thing I remember those doing on newer computers is playing the beep code if something goes wrong. I know the speaker thing will work, but I also want to solve the mystery of why did sound stop.

Your case may have a speaker on it too, now that I think about it. I'm a turd sometimes. It'll be plugged in the same spot that little guy is.

[Pumpkin]

I don't know how to pop the case open, I'll ask sharky tonight.

I actually have a set of speakers, but either they don't work, or the computer won't play them. Never figured out which

[CimminyCricket]

Let's find out! Plug them in and we'll see!

[Pumpkin]

I don't know where they are anymore xD

[CimminyCricket]

Oh. Well, then maybe you don't ​have speakers any more.

[escobert]

Did the sound come from your monitor before? I don't see how that thingy for you motherboard would actually serve as speakers at all. It just does the beeps for your motherboard.

[Pumpkin]

I thin so, my monitor has speakers on it. Theres's nothing unplugged from there though and I tried unplugging all my stuff and plugging it back in

:shrug:

[CimminyCricket]

Yeah, the thingy for the motherboard wouldn't but there are cases that have speakers in them (really popular in the early 2000's). It doesn't look like she has anything connecting PC to monitor for sound to come out. :C

[Pumpkin]

I feel like I'm going crazy here because I haven't changed anything xD

[CimminyCricket]

You have 3 USB devices plugged into the back of your computer. One is mouse, one is keyboard, what is the third?

[Pumpkin]

the little wifi thing I think

And then I have this big blue plug to the monitor and the monitor also has a wall plug. The monitor seems to have a long white strip for something else, but I've never used it

[CimminyCricket]

Wifi makes sense. The blue plug to the monitor is the video. What long white strip?

[Pumpkin]

It says DVI-D. I also noticed a little square that says audio, but I don't have a plug for that?

[CimminyCricket]

DVI-D is just another video adapter. Those plugs are easy to come by and usually pretty cheap.

[Vyk]

There are obviously more technically advanced people replying to this thread than myself. But if the system recognized it before and its not working now, wouldn't uninstalling it in device manager and having it check for hardware changes and re-installing it return it to how it should be?

That's the most I have to offer lol Since it's not just muted or anything..

[escobert]

I hate dealing with speakers. And printers.

[CimminyCricket]

For serious. It's worse with network printers. An entire floor could be printing just fine, but then there's one user whose printer spooler service likes to turn off every 30 seconds >:C