What is wrong with my audio?

Question

My pc's audio is not working

my speakers are fine, my headphones are fine, and i checked every volume setting but they are all messed up

why is this happening

Answer 1

First make sure your sound is not on Mute, then check your sound options, if you use windows, the control panel is the best way to check on sound. then make sure all of your drivers working good, make sure you sound driver is not disabled, i would first go to device manager and see if nothing is question marked, or yellowed out.

Answer 2

Check the driver for your sound card.  

Also, do you have Vista SP1?  Check to see if it messed up when it installed. I have seen it mess up sound settings and the thumbnail view on taskbar when it's not installed properly.

Answer 3

are you sure it's not on mute?