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I’m sitting in the office waiting making myself available to a client that may or may not call...
...do you know how to navigate to the Sounds console in Control Panel?
I hope you find the answer; I have had the same problem from time to time.
Bottom left corner of every Youtube video is an independent volume control... try that.
Try changing the device. Go to control panel-—>sounds, then look at the device it is using.
Check your speakers to be sure that they are turned on. (Click the loudspeaker symbol in your start menu)
If that fails, go to your windows set up menu and turn the speakers on.
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One easy fix is a System Restore.
check to see if YouTube is ‘muted’ at YouTube site.
Check to see if you have the sound ‘muted’.
Make sure the browser you use to hit youtube is open, click on the speaker in the Windows tray, click “mixer” make sure that app isn’t muted.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
what brand is you’re computer, it may need a upgrade driver from the computer maker, or, make sure you have windows update turned on.
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occamrzr06 is on the right track. If you know how to get to that console, assuming you don’t have 3rd-party software installed for sounds (Creative, etc.), you can check everything there.
Sometimes my ‘device’ deselects and goes to my USB headphones, killing my speakers. Sometimes YouTube mutes for no reason. Sometimes the “level” (found by double-clicking the ‘device’) is set to minimum.
Who knows what the heck causes it, but if you have Windows tones, and your sound card/speakers aren’t dead, you can at least check everything else from that console.
However, if you have 3rd party software installed, you must find that icon in your toolbar and open that application to ensure nothing got hosed there. I’ve had 3rd party drivers get hosed by Windows updates on a number of devices, including sound cards. It could also be a browser add-on problem (usually correctible by a reboot if it’s not corrupt).
But usually most of the problems above kill ALL the sounds.
Did you turn it off and back on again?
Have you tried onlinetonegenerator.com?
Hit “play” adjust volume/freq as desired.
It is common to have up to three audio outputs on a computer. 1: The jacks on the motherboard, 2: Jacks on any installed sound card, 3: “easy access” jacks on the front panel.
For some reason, SOME computers after SOME software installs either lose audio from one set, gaining it on the other set.
Grab that tonegenerator site, hit “play”, and see if you get audio from alternate sets of jacks. Eg; move the speaker plug around.
Also:
Plugged into correct (light green) jack? Plus fully inserted?
Try accessing Youtube through this URL:
Do you have any music files on the machine? If so, try playing one through Media Player. (or put an adio CD in the drive and play it) If that works, it’s a YouTube issue, if not, then choose the audio speaker in the lower right hand corner of your screen, choose Mixer, and see if you have Device Speakers muted. In theory, everything after the mixer’s the same, so if you’re hearing system sounds, your sound card’s working.