Easy-peasy: Restore My Sound! Thank You.

Turned on PC yesterday and out of the blue---no sound, no BIOS beep on boot, no Windows welcome sound, no sound with ZOOM.

Lenovo Thinkpad T400 - Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.

Icon in system tray looks fine. One-click mixer menu looks fine. Device manager claims the driver is working and all is well. Disable & reenabled driver; nothing. Uninstalled & reinstalled driver; nothing.

Note: the device itself is listed as High Definition Audio Device manufactured by Microsoft, with no brand name. Lenovo's site takes me to a page offering drivers for a Conexant device, whose version # is radically different from the version I am looking at (6.1.7601.17514).

Does it have anything to do with my cat walking across the keyboard yesterday? (kidding/not kidding!) HALP!

 

Perhaps puss clicked the mute key accidentally. I would click this & see if the sound returns.

 

Goddess:

O-M-G, all this caterwauling for nothing! You are right! I didn't even know there was a "mute" key on the keyboard. And unfortunately Lenovo never thought to put an alert icon in the system tray.

Leave it to a cat to solve my problem. You have no idea how funny that actually is: I live on a farm with a bunch of cats, and I'm sure they are the most delightful creatures in the world.

As the saying goes: Cats were worshiped in Ancient Egypt. They have not forgotten this.

Thank you!

 

Glad that to hear that was it. If you have the volume icon in the system tray it should show an X when the volume is muted.
Our cats usually are good a standing on the TV remote so change channels.

 

Have you checked for any newer drivers from the PC’s manufacturer plodr? I would expect you have though.

 

Thanks plodr.