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No sound!!!!
What a relief! I was starting to panic. Sound had ceased to work in my computer. I've really needed a new computer for a while, but really can't afford one, and dreaded having to find the money (that is, borrow it) to buy one.
I keep several operating systems on my computer, so I booted into another one, to check. Gratifying surprise! The sound worked. So it was not a hardware problem... thank goodness.
So back to my preferred operating system. Why isn't sound working in it? I tried everything I could think of, but was reluctant to spend hours on the net searching, so I began with asking ChatGPT-4o if it had seen anything on the net about this particular problem. It spent a little while searching the net and came back with 8 suggestions gleaned from its search.
The first suggestion I'd already tried.
The second suggestion (to check that alsamixer was not muted) solved the problem. How it had got muted I have no idea, but now everything is okay again.
Whew! My relief is overwhelming. :(
I keep several operating systems on my computer, so I booted into another one, to check. Gratifying surprise! The sound worked. So it was not a hardware problem... thank goodness.
So back to my preferred operating system. Why isn't sound working in it? I tried everything I could think of, but was reluctant to spend hours on the net searching, so I began with asking ChatGPT-4o if it had seen anything on the net about this particular problem. It spent a little while searching the net and came back with 8 suggestions gleaned from its search.
The first suggestion I'd already tried.
The second suggestion (to check that alsamixer was not muted) solved the problem. How it had got muted I have no idea, but now everything is okay again.
Whew! My relief is overwhelming. :(
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I had this (or a similar issue - it was a few years ago) on my work Windows laptop. It's a baffling one. I usually put it down to a bad update or mangling a mysterious hot key combo.
Of course, MSWord reset itself today (or reasons) and reset the bold key from CNTL-B to CNTL-N, Apparently it's a gremlin with yesterday's update they are "working hard to fix".