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?
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. sounddevice.PNG
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?
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?
Some computers have a little device on the motherboard that looks like this: 12-201-032-TS.jpg
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.
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.
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