Windows 7 volume mixer and sound completely f*cked up

[paleyas2]

it just happened out of nowhere. my sound was working fine last night, then this morning I played a video and there was no sound. I clicked the volume icon in the task bar to see if I could hear the 'ping' when you adjust volume but it repeatedly froze and crashed (it's still doing this now after rebooting). Sound in control panel also crashes first thing when I try to open it. what the eff is going on? I want my sound back.

 

[MikeHawthorne]

Hi

Try remove your sound card in Device Manager and reboot.
This will force Windows to identify the card and install the drivers for it.

If it's just a corrupted file or something like that this should fix it.

You could also just try and update your sound drivers.

Mike

 

[paleyas2]

sound's back! hearing the windows startup sound upon reboot was bliss

thank you so much!