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10-14-2008, 08:39 AM
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IBM Thinkpad T43 - no sound
Hi I am facing the following strange problem. Please let me know what am doing wrong.
Problem:- On board speakers not working suddenly( was working fine a day back). Did a mute(using the button in the keyboard) and then tried unmuting but no sound. However my microphones are working.My friends can hear me in yahoo/gtalk. Steps Tried already:- 1)Checked for mute in volume controls.Not muted. 2) Tried "Test Hardware" in laptop. I can see the green light working fine(it goes up and down) in playback but again no sound that I can hear. 3) Checked for drivers of sound and audio.No errors(no yelllo). The device(Sound Max Audio) is enabled and it says working fine. 4) Tried "System Restore" to 2 days before but again no sound. 5) Tried using headphones no sound again. What could be the problem?Any ideas. I will update this thread with some more info if i do any..In the meanwhile if anyone can help me it would be great. |
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10-14-2008, 11:12 AM
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If system restore didn't work, it sounds like a hardware problem. The sound chip on the motherboard may have blown. Speakers should be fine if headphones don't work either.
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10-14-2008, 12:21 PM
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Hi,
Thanks, do you want me to check with external speakers?? Is tat wat you had asked me to check with ?? |
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10-14-2008, 01:19 PM
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It wouldn't hurt to try with external speakers if you have a set laying around.
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10-14-2008, 04:19 PM
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I think you have proven that it's not just the speakers if headphones don't work either.
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10-16-2008, 01:49 AM
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It's not necessarily a hardware problem. Try reinstalling the sound drivers, and if that doesn't work, restoring from the recovery partition. Only if the latter doesn't fix it can we say for sure it's hardware-related. I believe I did have an issue a couple of times on my T43p with my sound breaking, but I managed to fix it through software.
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10-17-2008, 08:21 AM
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I tried reinstalling the drivers but it didnt help either. My office IT guy fixed this and when I enquired this was the answer that I got. He says there is a peculiar problem with T43 which goes like this "When the speaker and mic are set at some particular volume levels then they start to interfere with each other and so the problem occurs.Also he said some file gets corrupted and he has cleared the corruption also" ...Am not sure what he means by this or whether this makes sense but nevertheless he resolved the problem...Let me know if you find this satisfying
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