Why does the sound disappear on my laptop?
Due to its portability, a laptop is used by many to listen to music, watch movies, and work with audio and video files. If the sound disappears somewhere, then the laptop turns into a dull browser and typewriter. Now we will try to figure out the causes of the problem and also fix them ourselves.
Sound is disabled in laptop settings
Sometimes, in a hurry, we perform many unnecessary actions: we miss the sound settings in the tray, press special buttons on the keyboard that turn off the sound, backlight, etc.
Therefore, we check the condition of the sound. To do this, pay attention to the volume icon in the tray. If it is crossed out with a red stripe, then you should open the regulator and move the slider to turn on the sound.
Next, make sure that the volume controls on the soundbar are not turned off.
Now let's check at what level the volume of the speakers and other applications is set.
Sometimes we forget to remove the headphones from the special jack on the laptop and for this reason the speakers do not work. Checking the headphone jack.
Driver problem
Now you should remember all the latest installations of programs on your laptop. In some cases, there may be a conflict between them and those that were previously installed.
Therefore, it is worth returning to the previous state of affairs and removing the conflicting programs.
If you can’t remember anything like this, then move on to checking the drivers:
- Open “Start”, select “Control Panel” and go to “Device Manager”.
There you will see a tree of devices present in the laptop.
Sound drivers are located in “Sound, video and gaming devices”. We open them for viewing by clicking on the triangle on the left side. If the drivers are damaged, missing or out of date, a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark will blink to the left of them.
In this case, you should reinstall them. To do this, we find the disk that came with the laptop and use it to restore the drivers. You can also use for these purposes DriverPack Solution program, which will automatically select the necessary drivers.
Turn on sound in BIOS
It also happens that the sound is disabled in the BIOS itself. It's quite easy to check:
- Go to BIOS.
- Then we look for our sound device in the “Integrated” or “Advanced” tab. It depends on whether the sound card is integrated or not.
- Opposite the name of the sound device, we check the state in which it is located. If it says “Disabled”, then you should enable it. To do this, press “Enter” and select “Enabled”.
- Next, save the changes - press “F10”.
We wait for the laptop to reboot and then check the sound.
Windows audio service does not work
Open “Services” using “Run”. To do this, call the utility by pressing hot keys "Win + R".
We write in the line
Najimaem "Ok".
Now we look for “Windows audio” in services and check its status. The third column should say “Working”, as shown in the screenshot.
If it is not running, then right-click on it and select “Properties”. Here we set automatic launch, then click “Run”, “Apply”, “Ok”.
Missing audio codecs
The most popular video and audio playback formats are:
In order for them to be played on a laptop, you must install K-Lite Codec Pack, GOM Player. The problem, of course, may lie not in the settings, drivers or codecs, but in a malfunction of the sound card or the speakers themselves.
