Well, I’ll be. You must have sent good vibes because when I turned it on after reading your post, poof!, I have sound!!!! Relief, sigh. I had just posted the plea for help right after checking it for the hundredth time. Whatever, I’ll take good vibes. Thanks, LOL.
If things get whacky again, you may need to update drivers and the bios. I needed to do that on my work computer.