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    My Sounds Stops Working

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by PrinceDevil, Aug 12, 2012.

  1. PrinceDevil

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    Every now and then the sounds on my M14x would just stop working. Like right now. When I check my control panel it says the Sound Blaster Recon 3Di is working, and the sound bar is even moving when I have music on. However, I can't hear anything....help anyone?
     
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    I think it might be something wrong with the playback device? Recording is working fine at all times. Though it's the same thing for playback and recording.
     
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    yeah i agree... i suspect something wrong in the options... right-click on the tray icon sound from desktop... choose playback devices...
    see which device the bars are jumping around when you play anything... try to make another one the default by right-clicking and choosing set as default comm. device...
    if that doesn't work... try right-click around the devices and choose show disabled dev. and show disconnected dev...

    if that doesn't work then probably something wrong with audio driver... i would try to reinstall it...
     
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    Alienware-Luis_Pardo, Aug 13, 2012
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