Sound icon

[Katie]

Hi,
On my friends pc their sound has suddenly stopped working, and they have
noticed that the sound icon is missing in the syst tray. The speakers are on
and connected.
I had this problem last year but I have xp and have forgotten what i d/led
to fix it.
Can some one kindly supply me with some sort of fix for this please? I will
pass it onto them.
Many thanks

[webster72n]

Katie:

Click >Start>Settings>Control Panel>Sounds and Multimedia and check the box
"Show volume control on the taskbar", then click OK.

Harry.

"Katie" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> On my friends pc their sound has suddenly stopped working, and they have
> noticed that the sound icon is missing in the syst tray. The speakers are
on
> and connected.
> I had this problem last year but I have xp and have forgotten what i d/led
> to fix it.
> Can some one kindly supply me with some sort of fix for this please? I
will
> pass it onto them.
> Many thanks
>
>

[Katie]

Thats done but its not working, still not showing, and still no sound.
Thanks
Katie

"webster72n" > wrote in message
...
>
> Katie:
>
> Click >Start>Settings>Control Panel>Sounds and Multimedia and check the
> box
> "Show volume control on the taskbar", then click OK.
>
> Harry.
>
> "Katie" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Hi,
>> On my friends pc their sound has suddenly stopped working, and they have
>> noticed that the sound icon is missing in the syst tray. The speakers are
> on
>> and connected.
>> I had this problem last year but I have xp and have forgotten what i
>> d/led
>> to fix it.
>> Can some one kindly supply me with some sort of fix for this please? I
> will
>> pass it onto them.
>> Many thanks
>>
>>
>
>

[webster72n]

In that case you'll probably have to check the BIOS.
Someone more competent will have to pick it up from here.

Harry.


"Katie" > wrote in message
...
> Thats done but its not working, still not showing, and still no sound.
> Thanks
> Katie
>
> "webster72n" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > Katie:
> >
> > Click >Start>Settings>Control Panel>Sounds and Multimedia and check the
> > box
> > "Show volume control on the taskbar", then click OK.
> >
> > Harry.
> >
> > "Katie" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> Hi,
> >> On my friends pc their sound has suddenly stopped working, and they
have
> >> noticed that the sound icon is missing in the syst tray. The speakers
are
> > on
> >> and connected.
> >> I had this problem last year but I have xp and have forgotten what i
> >> d/led
> >> to fix it.
> >> Can some one kindly supply me with some sort of fix for this please? I
> > will
> >> pass it onto them.
> >> Many thanks
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

[Katie]

Ok thanks, but I am sure when I had that problem I never did anything like
that, I think it was just something like a script or an exe. that i d/led to
fix mine. But maybe thats is because I have XP and not ME.
Thanks for your help anyway
Katie

"webster72n" > wrote in message
...
>
> Katie:
>
> Click >Start>Settings>Control Panel>Sounds and Multimedia and check the
> box
> "Show volume control on the taskbar", then click OK.
>
> Harry.
>
> "Katie" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Hi,
>> On my friends pc their sound has suddenly stopped working, and they have
>> noticed that the sound icon is missing in the syst tray. The speakers are
> on
>> and connected.
>> I had this problem last year but I have xp and have forgotten what i
>> d/led
>> to fix it.
>> Can some one kindly supply me with some sort of fix for this please? I
> will
>> pass it onto them.
>> Many thanks
>>
>>
>
>

[Sparda]

"" wrote:
> Hi,
> On my friends pc their sound has suddenly stopped working, and
> they have
> noticed that the sound icon is missing in the syst tray. The
> speakers are on
> and connected.
> I had this problem last year but I have xp and have forgotten
> what i d/led
> to fix it.
> Can some one kindly supply me with some sort of fix for this
> please? I will
> pass it onto them.
> Many thanks

Reinstall sound card drivers.

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[Noel Paton]

Reboot to Safe Mode
Open Device Manager
Remove ALL Sound &Multimedia devices
Remove ALL error-flagged devices
Remove ALL entries in the 'Other Devices' branch - if present
Reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall the required drivers,
hopefully curing your problem.


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"Katie" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> On my friends pc their sound has suddenly stopped working, and they have
> noticed that the sound icon is missing in the syst tray. The speakers are
> on and connected.
> I had this problem last year but I have xp and have forgotten what i d/led
> to fix it.
> Can some one kindly supply me with some sort of fix for this please? I
> will pass it onto them.
> Many thanks
>
>

[Katie]

Thanks so much, I thought that it would be a case of just d/ling something
like I did with mine in xp.
I will tell them to try all that has been said here.
Thanks again
Katie

"Noel Paton" > wrote in message
...
> Reboot to Safe Mode
> Open Device Manager
> Remove ALL Sound &Multimedia devices
> Remove ALL error-flagged devices
> Remove ALL entries in the 'Other Devices' branch - if present
> Reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall the required drivers,
> hopefully curing your problem.
>
>
> --
> Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)
>
> Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
> http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6oztj
>
> Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
>
> "Katie" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Hi,
>> On my friends pc their sound has suddenly stopped working, and they have
>> noticed that the sound icon is missing in the syst tray. The speakers are
>> on and connected.
>> I had this problem last year but I have xp and have forgotten what i
>> d/led to fix it.
>> Can some one kindly supply me with some sort of fix for this please? I
>> will pass it onto them.
>> Many thanks
>>
>>
>
>