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I lied, it's not my speakers, it's my sound in general. read my post for details, i copied + pasted my post from another tech support forum so i sound like a big gay

For about a week now, my sound has been completely dead. One afternoon, I tried to listen to a song and it wouldn't play. I tried to adjust my volume, and it was at full and unmuted-- but still no sound. I checked with a pair of headphones to see if my speakers were the issue, but once again there was nothing. Since then, I've tried everything I could think of to remedy the problem, and here is a short list of everything I've attempted.

Checked to see if my speakers were the issue. Unless my headphones broke at the same time, that's not it.
System Restore to the previous afternoon. It was a hunch that I didn't expect to be accurate--it wasn't.
Uninstalling/Reinstalling audio drivers. I downloaded the latest Sigma-Tel driver from the Dell website, but it had no effect.
I waded through the Control Panel and checked everything I could think of. My speakers are selected as the primary audio device in Sound, and the correct driver is selected in Device Manager.

One thing I should definitely mention is that some programs are having trouble with sound. For example, if I try to play a sound file or a video with sound in WMP, it simply can't open it, or play it at all. My NES emulator can't boot up ROMs anymore, and I'm assuming this is related to the dynamic sound generation the NES used--some kind of audio jigger is faling to load. There's another one I can't remember, but most interestingly when I try to test my sound setup in the Sound panel I'm greeted with this unsettling message: Failed to play test tone.

I'm getting the feeling something is fundamentally amiss here.

Any suggestions? I think reinstalling my OS would fix the problem, but I've jsut barely finished recovering from a protracted difficulty with Adobe Flash and have recently spent a lot of time reskinning many of my programs. Any suggestions on what could be causing this or how I could fix it?

this shit sucks, dude

this shit sucks, dude

are you using a sound card or just the default motherboard ports

if it's a card, it may be loose

Your ports may be burned out. That's what happened to mine. I bought a USB audio adapter and it fixed the problem.

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ok never mind it fixed itself

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mmmmmm tell me how please

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mmmmmm tell me how please

I really do not know, I was in school this morning and all of a sudden my computer made a skype noise and i pointed at it like DID YOU FUCKING HEAR THAT look at that shit! and now I have two sets of speakers in my list of audio devices, but one of them is listed as not plugged in. bizarre