Dell Studio 1537

[xavierfan1]

Does anyone know anything about a Dell Studio Laptop.  I am trying to fix a buddy of mines computer.  I cannot get any sound to come from it.  If I go into the sound properties you can see the little equlizer playing but no sound coming from it.  I tried deleting the drivers and reinstalling them but that doesn't work.  Any feedback would be great!

[Allan]

The first question would be: if you don't know how to fix it why did you offer to repair it?
Look in device manager - any yellow exclamation marks?

[xavierfan1]

it thought it would be an easy task.  There are no yellow exlamations.

[Allan]

Go to start - run and type sndvol.exe (press enter). Make sure the volume setting is appropriate and nothing is muted. If these settings are correct there may very well be a hardware problem.

[xavierfan1]

nothing is muted.  I did a dell diagnostic and I had no issues.  Who knows.  I think the laptop is still under warranty.

[Geek-9pm]

[xavierfan1]

Yes I have tried that and still nothing.

[xirus]

Does anyone know anything about a Dell Studio Laptop.  I am trying to fix a buddy of mines computer.  I cannot get any sound to come from it.  If I go into the sound properties you can see the little equlizer playing but no sound coming from it.  I tried deleting the drivers and reinstalling them but that doesn't work.  Any feedback would be great!

did you make the item where you see the equalizer working the default sound device? once you do that, you may have to restart the program you were using to get it to recognize the new audio setting. i have the same laptop and my audio setting changes on its own from time to time.

[xavierfan1]

I have tried everything with this computer.  Set as default is grayed out. It will not let me.

[xirus]

sometimes i go the Dell Forum at http://en.community.dell.com/ and the question i have has already been asked and answered concerning my laptop issue.

here is a post from a person having the same issue as you. http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19268667/19465330.aspx#19465330

if that doesn't work for you, try inputting (No sound Studio Laptop) in the search box at the top of the Dell Community Home page. i hope this helps! 

[xavierfan1]

I really don't want to restore everything I guess I will have to if I want sound.

[xirus]

if there are audio programs that were put on the system such as Sound Blaster and such, you could try removing them and updating the audio drivers. if worse comes to worse, do a back up and do the F8 thing when you restart the system to do a factory restore.