Sound Suddenly Stopped Working

level1paladin

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Onboard Realtek HD audio on the Asus P6T board.

I noticed last night when I tried to play something the sound wasn't working anymore. It hadn't been restarted in a week, so I'm not sure what could have caused that.

I have ensured playback devices are enabled and I have set both the 5.1 speakers and the C-Media USB headphone/mic audio device to default. Didn't make a difference, no sound coming out of the headphones or speakers.

In the Asus ExpressGate I can go to YouTube and my speakers work fine, so it's gotta have something to do with Windows.

I ran windows troubleshooting on Playing Audio and it says "Hardware changes might not have been detected" with a little yellow exclamation point and no other options but to close. It does say detected next to it though, so I'm not sure.

It happened all of a sudden, so I'm not sure what the deal is. I'm downloading the new Realtek audio drivers stickied at the top of this forum and hopefully that may make a difference.


I checked Device Manager in safe mode and it shows no little yellow exclamations indicating an issue. I cannot pull up Device Manager in regular mode, and I've tried to do a SFC /scannow which also doesn't work.

I also cannot get system restore point to open from the control panel, system, uninstall a program. So somethings farked up with Windows.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
CPU
i7-920
Motherboard
Asus P6T
Memory
4GB Corsair DDR 1600
Graphics Card(s)
nVidia GTX 470
Sound Card
Realtek Onboard Sound
Monitor(s) Displays
24"
PSU
TX 650W Corsair
Case
X-Navigator
Cooling
Fans
Have you run an Anti-virus scan?
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Bruce ... somewhere in his 40's
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2400 MHz
Motherboard
INTEL/D975XBX2
Memory
4 GB
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung SyncMaster 914v
Screen Resolution
1280 x 1024
Hard Drives
2/500GB each ... ST3500630AS ATA Device.
One is not connected
PSU
Rocketfish 700 W
Case
G.Skill Gigabyte Chassis
Keyboard
Standard PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse
Microsoft PS/2 Mouse
Internet Speed
DSL
Antivirus
Avira Internet Security
Browser
IE 11
Other Info
ATI HDMI Audio
Yeah, Avast! didn't come up with anything.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
CPU
i7-920
Motherboard
Asus P6T
Memory
4GB Corsair DDR 1600
Graphics Card(s)
nVidia GTX 470
Sound Card
Realtek Onboard Sound
Monitor(s) Displays
24"
PSU
TX 650W Corsair
Case
X-Navigator
Cooling
Fans
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