Speakers not working.

@optonline.net Terry

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Jun 16, 2006, 9:46:16 AM6/16/06

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My computer speakers (small ones) stopped working. Tried some new ones...
same problem..no sound. Could someone instruct me how to check the drivers
or sound card.
Thanks.

Mary

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Jun 16, 2006, 10:04:02 AM6/16/06

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Outlook question? You should check to see if your speakers are muted. Go to
Control Panel, Sounds and go thru all the links--volume control will have a
mute button. If there's a speaker icon on the lower right, use that to get to
the controls. You should ask about this in the forum for your operating
system.

Another Brian

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Jun 16, 2006, 10:06:37 AM6/16/06

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"Terry" <redmunds (remove this)@optonline.net> wrote in message
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Have you check to see of the speakers have been muted? Check Control
Panel > Sounds and Audio Device Properties. On the Volume tab, is the
Mute box checked? Another thing to check is if your PC has a hardware
mute button. Many laptops have a button to disable sounds.

Brian

Bruce Hagen

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Jun 16, 2006, 10:19:06 AM6/16/06

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Not an Outlook Express question. Stick to the XP newsgroups.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

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Vanguard

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Jun 16, 2006, 10:33:14 AM6/16/06

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"Terry" <redmunds (remove this)@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> My computer speakers (small ones) stopped working. Tried some new
> ones... same problem..no sound. Could someone instruct me how to check
> the drivers or sound card.

You can't manage to figure out that Outlook Express, Internet Explorer,
and Outlook have nothing to do with your speakers and yet you cross-post
to those groups. Yeah, bet you can't even figure out how to unmute the
volume control, turn on the power to the powered speakers, or turn the
volume control on those powered speakers, too. What a dufus!

DL

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Jun 16, 2006, 3:34:30 PM6/16/06

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I think you missed a couple of ng's

"Terry" <redmunds (remove this)@optonline.net> wrote in message
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antioch

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Jun 16, 2006, 3:49:14 PM6/16/06

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"Terry" <redmunds (remove this)@optonline.net> wrote in message
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Hi Terry
Ignore the gibes and insults - have you tried the suggestions given by those
who tried to help.
If not then the one group you did not post to which might have been more
productive, would been windowsxp.hardware.
Good luck
Antioch

antioch

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Jun 16, 2006, 3:50:53 PM6/16/06

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And what FORUM would that be???
Call that help??????????????????
Antioch

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE

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Jun 16, 2006, 4:28:13 PM6/16/06

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"Mary" <Ma...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Outlook question? You should check to see if your speakers are muted. Go
> to
> Control Panel, Sounds and go thru all the links--volume control will have
> a
> mute button. If there's a speaker icon on the lower right, use that to get
> to
> the controls. You should ask about this in the forum for your operating
> system.

He did that, too. In fact, in three fora for his operating system.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security"

Curt Christianson

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Jun 16, 2006, 9:10:12 PM6/16/06

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Ouch! Was that really necessary?

--
Curt BD-MVBT

http://dundats.mvps.org/
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http://www.aumha.org/
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Vanguard

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Jun 16, 2006, 11:13:41 PM6/16/06

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"Curt Christianson" <curtch...@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Ouch! Was that really necessary?

Yeah, I'm grouchy today, especially with dumb questions (dumb, in this
case, being the inability to discern by a group's title just what the
group is about). I feel no remorse about being abrupt with a poster
that deliberately shotguns their post to groups that are obviously
unrelated, especially to the problem.

Rainy

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Jun 16, 2006, 11:21:21 PM6/16/06

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I have no idea why this has happened to me, and why there is such an easy
fix.. but a reboot has fixed it before.. when I log back on I have sound...
:) Rainy

"Terry" <redmunds (remove this)@optonline.net> wrote in message
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deebs

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Jun 17, 2006, 4:57:46 AM6/17/06

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What if... ?

The user were dependent upon accessibility features with a preference to
sound prompts as opposed to mainly and singularly onscreen prompts?

Vanguard

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Jun 17, 2006, 5:12:04 PM6/17/06

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"deebs" <the....@bogusfalse.noo> wrote in message
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> What if... ?
>
> The user were dependent upon accessibility features with a preference
> to sound prompts as opposed to mainly and singularly onscreen prompts?

Pretty wild guesses on your part considering the dearth of information
from the OP. The OP said his speakers weren't "working". He didn't say
they didn't work for just the Outlook or Internet Explorer sound events.
Until the OP comes back with more details, there is no point in wasting
the time, bandwidth, and disk space proposing thousands of guesses as to
how to solve the ill-defined problem. I could guess that the OP was
plugging the speakers into the Mic jack instead of the Spkr jack, too.

Curt Christianson

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Jun 18, 2006, 12:52:08 AM6/18/06

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I hear ya Vanguard...You just caught me on an extremely patient day ;-))

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Curt BD-MVBT

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