Absolutely no sound

So I opened my computer the other day and the sound was gone. I have an ASUS Notebook UX31A.

It says I have no audio devices installed. I checked device manager, there is not even a section dedicated to audio or whatever its called (Sound Games and controllers or something like that).

I went into admin tools and restarted Windows Audio. nothing. Plugged headphones into the audio jack and those weren't recognized either. My computer is basically disregarding the fact that sound is even a real thing.

I've looked at a billion forums now and nothing is working. I downloaded the latest Realtek audio drivers and extracted them from the zip folder, but beyond that, I don't know how I would use drivers to make sound appear.

I'm frustrated, and if somebody could help me get some sound I would appreciate it.


First thread too btw.

 

You say you opened your computer. Did you remove anything and put it back? Make sure all connections are seated properly. You downloaded Realtek audio drivers. Are you sure those are the right ones? I pulled up a page describing the laptop and it states the audio was co-developed by Bang & Olafsen.

 

I downloaded those drivers directly from Asus website. And all the connections were in the same state as they have been for the duration I've had the laptop.

 

Does device manager show any yellow exclamation marks? What os are ye running, xp, vista, 7,8? Linux?

 

Windows 8. There are no exclamation points in the device manager

 

Fixed. Had to uninstall the driver then it repaired itself