Hi,
I have a PC which has been working fine with regards the on-board sound for a couple of years. Suddenly, it was noticed that the sound no longer works. I have checked the sound and audio devices properties box in the control panel. This told me that there was no sound device attached. Also, all of the controls were greyed out.
I rolled back to the oldest system restore point I had. This was about a week ago. This time the sound and audio devices properties box said that there was a device attached. Also all of the controls were back to being in black and usable. When I tried out various sounds, no sounds actually came out of the PC. I tried headphones and the speakers, but to no avail.
I backed out of the restore as I had installed a number of programs betweenm the two points in time and I didn't want to lose them.
The only thing I can put this down to is that I run a regular registry scan.
This fixes my registry but perhaps this time it's fixed it good a proper as they say.
Is there anything I can do to repair the damage? I've tried reinstalling the drivers (using Driver Detective) but got nowhere.