How come my computer has no sound?

Question

How come my computer has no sound?

Answer 1

Do you have a sound card?

Is your speaker connected to a power and to your computer port and is it turned on?

Answer 2

Make sure your Sound Driver isn't disabled, it may have inadvertently disabled itself during shutdown:

Go to Device Manager (Start> RightClick My Computer> Properties> Hardware Tab> Device Manager) and right click on your sound driver and choose enable. If not, try updating the driver, that will effectively restore it to factory settings if there's an update available.

If you don't know the name of you Sound Driver, so to Start> Run> dxdiag. Now go to the Sound Tab and any sound hardware installed is listed.

If that still doesn't work, the driver may have been uninstalled. If so, go to your computer's manufacturer's website and go to the "Support" section. There should be a link for drivers. You will need to know your computer's model, but once you enter that it will give you and option to download any missing drivers. Just find the Sound Driver and install it.

Hope that helps =]

Answer 3

Are the speakers plugged in? is the sound turned up? is the sound on mute?

Answer 4

Could be many things... try being much more specific: you can e-mail me on yahoo if you want i can try to help you, but if you do tell me all about your set up (including whether it is a desktop or a laptop, what connections you are using, etc.)

Answer 5

Assuming you are not a complete moron and the speakers are plugged in correctly...

(This assumes Windows).

Go to the system Control Panel and double click "System".  Depending on whether or not you are using XP or Vista the way to this link will be different, but keep your eyes peeled for something called "Device Manager".  Once you have found that scroll down to "Sound, Video and Game Conrollers."  If, in this category, something is listed as Multimedia Audio Device with a yellow question mark, then you need to install the proper drivers.  The best place to find the driver is to go to the manufacturer's web site for your laptop, find the support section, your pc model, and download the audio drivers.