No audio on my laptop

[merlin_2]

You have  seem to have solved your own problem?

[SRH]

No, the sound still isn't working but it sounded like you didn't have any more suggestions.

[merlin_2]

Do you now anything about pcs.........or is this some kind of web-game you have started on........pc chess.stop playing the fool........as most people take the british for idots we are not.........the yanks/candians/ossies maybe.

[SRH]

Yes, I know a little bit about PCs, enough to have tried the things I've already tried but clearly not enough to figure out what the problem is. And no, this is not a game. I'm not playing the fool at all Merlin, if you can help I'd appreciate it if not then just quit responding. There's no need to get rude. I am honestly having a PC problem here and would really like to get my sound fixed without having to take it into a shop and pay a whole bunch of money. Besides, how would I have any idea you're British? I found this site on a Yahoo search for computer help. Geez.

[merlin_2]

Shall we start from.......whathave you done...........was this laptop bought on emay.....the specs are......?

No one gains from timewasted.........not even you/?

[SRH]

I bought my laptop brand new off the Gateway website in June 2003. The sound has always worked until today. Just Saturday I was playing a CD and everything was fine but suddenly today there was no audio. No error message, no nothing, just no audio. I added some new software about a week ago but it didn't affect the sound as far as I know of because it worked since then. I have WIndows XP Home Edition Version 2002 with Service Pack 1 (I installed Service Pack 2 about 3 weeks ago but it really slowed my computer down so I took it off. Don't think that affected the sound). I also have a Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20 GHZ, 2.19 GHz, and 248 MB of Ram.

[Fed]

Take a look in your device manager for !s and Xs and ?s.

[SRH]

Thanks, but I checked the device manager and everything there looks good. No red or yellow marks, just the normal pluses.

[Fed]

I would try re-installing DirectX 9.0c.