Dear Experts,
My laptop is a VAIO bought at the beginning of the year with VISTA. Recently it's been having persistent sound problems. Like when I turn it on, I'll hear the welcome tune, but when I turn on music with say, realplayer, it'll lost the sound. Or it'll work for a while then lost it. Plugging in earplugs can also lose the sound.
I check the sound manager, it'll say the
built-in speaker is working. I check the device manager, it'll say the device is okay. I can even see the sound "bar" fluctuating along with the music.
Sometimes I can get the sound back by restarting. Another way is by disabling the speaker device and then enabling it again. I can keep doing that every half an hour, but surely there's some inherent problem I should fix??
I've heard VISTA is really unstable. I downloaded and installed some kind of sound-related service pack from microsoft , but it didn't help.
I've been recording some songs with sound recording programs like Audacity. Not sure if it has any bearing? But I think this problem occurred briefly couple months ago and went away on its own.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
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