Recent content by davbeisner

EDITED: accidentally posted twice...

Thanks, Randy... You're right... I did forget to mention the type of sound card I have. My bad. The laptop is an HP Pavilion dv7-1245dx, and it's running a soundcard which (as best as I can tell) is called an IDT HD Audio Controller. I checked services.msc and both audio services are running...

UPDATE: The sound output from the headphones jack IS working, just not from the laptop speakers. FWIW, this laptop has mute/volume controls above the keyboard, and they all are working (the audio mixer reflects what they're doing). However, the mute button always turned red when I had the sound...

UPDATE: I went into the Device Manager and uninstalled all the audio devices. Then I ran a scan for hardware changes and Windows found and re-installed all the audio devices (and several others that had failed to install when I updated to Windows 7!). Now all the audio device options show up in...

Ok, I have an HP laptop which initially had Vista 64 on it. I reformatted and reinstalled with Windows 7 64 Ultimate. After the install, I went to HP's website and downloaded all their drivers and packages for my laptop, for Win7 64. However, periodically my sound would just simply quit...