My Speakers just stopped making sound!

[Sunnygirl123]

Hello,

I am embarassed to say I know nothing about how my PC works--I just use it!

All of a sudden my speakers stopped making sound. They are connected and turned on, but they don't make any noise at all.

I have an HP desktop with 2 Harmon Kardon speakers that came with it.

Thanks for any advice!

Sunny

[BIG JOHN]

Hi welcome to VDR, lets start with the obvious first, double click on the little speaker icon down by the clock, if there is a checkmark in the mute box, click on it with your mouse curser & remove the check mark. BJ

[fink]

Also check the back of the computer to make sure they haven't accidentally been plugged into the wrong jack. They should be plugged into the green colored mini plug jack on the sound card.

You can also plug a set of walkman type headphones into that jack to see if there's actually signal there to eliminate the small possibility that there's something wrong with the speakers themselves.

Do any types of sounds work?.... mp3s & video etc or is it just system sounds like dings, chimes, and startup/shutdown etc sounds?

[Sunnygirl123]

Thank you both very much for your replies.

Excellent suggestion about the mute button--unfortunately, it's on full volume so no mute this time.

There are no sounds at all. No dings, no streaming video audio--nothing. I put some earphones into the green 'out' jack--but still no sound. There's a note beside it that says 'caution--powered speakers required for sound' so does that mean the earphone test isn't valid on my computer?

Thank you again--any and all suggestions are appreciated!!!

[BIG JOHN]

Hello again, just to clarify. it does not matter if the volume slider is all the way up, if the mute box is checked there will be no sound, right click on the speaker icon & click on open volume control, a window will pop up & show several slider bars, at the bottom of the window under each slider bar you will see a little box that says mute, make sure there are no checkmarks in any of them. BJ

[Sunnygirl123]

BIG JOHN--

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!

When I right clicked on the speaker button (I didn't even know it had a right-click option) the 'wave' was on mute. I have no idea how this happened, but as soon as I un-muted that piece, I now have sound again.

I have a huge project coming up with audio and I was starting to panic, thinking there was something wrong with my computer.

You have no idea how much I appreciate your help.

Thanks again!!!!!

[BIG JOHN]

Hi Sunny im glad to assist you & glad that it's working again. Appreciate you coming back & letting me know it worked. Come back & see us again ya hear. BJ

[atje5]

hi my hp computer with the same speakers just had the same problem and when I try to open the volume control it says the is no sound device or something like that i checked and all my wires are fine i tried to unplug the speakers since my computer has an internal speaker I tried plugging another pair in nothing it wont play anything please help

[Midknyte]

Next time, create a new thread instead of reviving a 3 year old one.

As stated earlier in the thread, did you check that the audio is not on mute?

Did you check device manager to make sure your audio devices are working?

[atje5]

i tried to check if it was on mute it would not allow me and now the volume button isn't even there i tried another pair of speakers and that didn't work i tried no speakers because my computer has a built in speaker that didn't work and i went the the control panel and it didn't help anything

[Midknyte]

Did you check device manager to make sure your audio devices are working?

Verify that the audio is working in device manager. It would help if you told us the make/model of the sound card or motherboard if you're using onboard audio.