Losst sound through laptops own speakers but can hear through headphones

gillyp · #1 Apr 25, 2008, 12:52 PM

My HP pavilion laptop has suddenly lost sound. If I plug headphones in I can hear, however the minute I remove the jack there is no sound.
I have tried reinstalling drivers but it says that it failed each time.

I'm not very techy but if somebody could help I would appreciate it?

progunr · Apr 25, 2008, 01:59 PM

If you are running Vista, I had the same issue.

It was caused by a bad automatic update to the HD Audio System.

Can you try to restore to a previous date and see if that works?

Good Luck!

gillyp · Apr 25, 2008, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by progunr

If you are running Vista, I had the same issue.

It was caused by a bad automatic update to the HD Audio System.

Can you try to restore to a previous date and see if that works?

Good Luck!

thank you progunr, I tried that first, one of the few things I know how to do but it didn't help. I chatted with a HP technician who said that since it was all enabled it was probably the speakers so I should take the laptop to a repair centre

reading though some of the other things here it seems quite common, it can't all be speakers surely?



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