It's Sound - but not as we know it...

TheBramble said:

SONY VGN AR41S. Vista (no choice…) Managed to disable the integral speakers while setting up a bluetooth headset connection. Have spent a few hours since trying to get the speakers to work again!!!

Nothing coming through now on speakers, bluetooth or external (wired) headphones socket.

Uninstalled drivers and disabled devices. Rebooted. Automatically found the devices re-installed and enabled. Some progress.

Control Panel – Sound - Sounds tab. Can’t get any sounds from testing the basic windows stuff (asterix, critical stop etc). BUT…when I click on the speakers icon and then click on the ‘enhancements’ tab – I can get sounds on tests for those elements (stereo balance, bass enahancement etc.).

So, the speakers ‘work’ but only there. No apps generated sound, or webs based sound checks coming through on any channels.

Short of sending this piece of kit back, anyone have any suggestions?

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TheMoneyMachine said:

Check that you have your speakers set as your default playback device,

Control Panel - Sound - Playback Tab - You should have a green circle with a white tick in over the speakers icon (if not right click on the speakers icon and select 'set as default device').

I am sure you have already checked this anyway.

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TheBramble said:

Hi everybody, thanks for your replies.

The problem seems to have gone away now. All by itself. Nothing whatsoever to do with the suggestion from TMM to set speakers as default. Absolutely not.

Tch! I bet there there are some real knob-heads out there that wouldn't have thought to have checked that first. I dunno, glad I'm not one of them....






{Cleese type total-body cringe....}

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