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Post by Kaleidoscope Eyes on Jul 30, 2014 13:29:47 GMT -4
Okay, here's an issue that I'm sure is easy enough to fix, but I don't know what's going on. After my laptop has gone to sleep and I wake it up, if I want to watch a video, there's no sound unless I restart it. I don't know why it's doing this.
Thoughts? Advice?
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Post by ratscabies on Jul 30, 2014 14:03:13 GMT -4
Okay, here's an issue that I'm sure is easy enough to fix, but I don't know what's going on. After my laptop has gone to sleep and I wake it up, if I want to watch a video, there's no sound unless I restart it. I don't know why it's doing this. Thoughts? Advice? When you put it to sleep, did you have headphones plugged in that are unplugged when you wake it up? My recording software flips right out if I plug or unplug headphones while it's open; maybe it's something like that?
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Post by Kaleidoscope Eyes on Jul 30, 2014 14:10:49 GMT -4
No, no headphones. I know this has got to be a simple fix and I'm probably overlooking something as simple as this.
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alpierce
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Post by alpierce on Aug 1, 2014 1:25:36 GMT -4
I would check to see if the speakers got muted somehow. Check the speaker icon by the clock and also any proprietary software that controls the speakers. Also try muting and unmuting the speakers yourself to see if this helps
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Post by pamster on Aug 1, 2014 8:12:55 GMT -4
Have you shut down and physically unplugged everything from everything else? Sometimes things reset after they've sat a few minutes in timeout, as it were.
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Post by Kaleidoscope Eyes on Aug 1, 2014 10:10:06 GMT -4
I've checked the mute button and I've unplugged everything from the laptop. Mute is not on and I've turned it on and off and nothing seems to help other than shutting it down and starting up again or doing a restart. I checked the proprietary software, but can't tell what the defaults are supposed to be and if they got accidentally changed somehow.
It's a minor thing, but very baffling and has been going on for several weeks now. It only happens when I want to play a video after the laptop has been on and gone to sleep and woken up again. If it's never slept in the first place, then it seems to be fine.
Oh, and the video usually won't play either. It'll start to play without sound, but after a few seconds, it'll buffer and there's an error message and it won't play.
Thanks for the tips and I'll take a second look at the audio software and see if I can find anything.
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Post by ratscabies on Aug 1, 2014 14:58:06 GMT -4
Hmmm....
If the video starts then stops, it might mean something bad in the video player software. Maybe uninstall that then re-install it?
Is this video files you have downloaded? Or is it DVDs? If it's DVDs, it might mean the drive is starting to crap out.
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Post by Kaleidoscope Eyes on Aug 1, 2014 15:53:03 GMT -4
It's videos I'm trying to watch on youtube and project free tv. I haven't tried out what would happen when I put in a DVD, because for some reason I've never been able to get a DVD to play.
I'm not a tech person by any stretch, but I'm not usually so helpless as to not be able to play a DVD, but it always says that drive is full. I've never figured out what that issue is either. I just watch them on my other laptop or I use the DVD player.
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Post by sumire on Aug 3, 2014 21:02:00 GMT -4
I like to play games in Firefox while watching/listening to YouTube videos in Internet Explorer, and I sometimes have a problem like yours where I can't get any sound from YouTube in IE when I come back to my computer after it's been sleeping for a while. (It's not anything to do with the speaker control/volume mixer being muted, and I notice I *can* still get sound from other programs.) Or sometimes, too, YouTube buffers for a sec and then won't play at all.
I don't have to shut down my entire computer to fix it, though--I just clear the cache, close all my IE windows, check Task Manager to make sure IE is completely shut down, and then relaunch it.
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Post by Kaleidoscope Eyes on Aug 4, 2014 10:21:32 GMT -4
Thanks for the suggestion to clear out my cache. I've tried just closing out of Firefox and that hasn't worked, hence restarting, but I don't think I've tried clearing out my cache. Yesterday, for the first time in several weeks, it worked just fine even after waking up my laptop.
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