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Hi Donna,
Line In should not have any effect unless you are listening to an external
sound source. (e.g. tape recorder)
Try the following , another poster with no sound found the following
"logical" diagnostic useful :-
1 Unplug speaker lead from the back of the CPU box and plug into the h'phone
socket of a walkman. Can you hear through the speakers? If not, the speakers
are not working.
2 Plug the walkman h'phones into the back of the CPU box. Can you hear? If
not, there are sound card problems.
Speaker Problems
Do you listen through powered speakers? Are they switched on? (at the
speaker switch and at the mains and on the PSU) Are all fuses OK? Do you get
voltage out of the PSU? Is the vol turned up a bit? If the answer to all
these is yes, switch off and on at the speaker switch. Do you hear a click?
If so the fault possibly lies in a faulty back-of-the-box to speaker cable;
if not the fault possibly lies in the speakers themselves. If you can get
the back of the master speaker off and fancy poking about (all low voltage
inside), you may find loose or broken wires you can re solder.
Last or even first double check, can you borrow a set of speakers and
replace yours?
Sound Card problems
1 Courtesy of Noel Paton -
Reboot to Safe Mode
Open Device Manager
Remove ALL Sound & Multimedia devices
Remove ALL error-flagged devices
Remove ALL entries in the 'Other Devices' branch - if present
Reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall the required drivers,
hopefully curing your problem.
2 Check the volume control icon (bottom right, near clock) Single click
Master vol setting. Is the slider minimised or mute tickbox ticked? If so
untick or move slider to 50%.
3 Double click vol control icon to bring up mixer panel. (select SHOW ALL)
Are any sliders muted or minimised? If so unmute and/or bring up to 50%
level. (suggest only Mic Input is muted)
4 Check volume slider on your player software. Is it Muted or minimised?
Unmute or increase to 50%
--
Delboy
A common mistake that people made when trying to design something completely
foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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"Donna" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:%23XULDyGkFHA.2852@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> The "sound" has stopped working for some reason. I've checked the volume
> control, and it is not muted. Something called "line in balance" is muted.
> Checked system properties/device manager and the are no question marks.
> Any help would be appreciated
> thanks
>
>
) So thanks for posting Donna.
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