Help, cant turn the sound on on my laptop

[carriemac]

Can anyone help me please? I turned off the sound on my laptop as the dial up whine was annoying me and now I cant get the sound back on. I followed a mumsnetter'a addvice re turning it off but cant find the thread now
Thanks

not a clue carrie, but have you done a search for the old thread? (sorry if thats obvious!)

yes lisa but vant find it, I am tearing my hair out as kids computer blew up a week ago and they miss their cd-roms

only thing I can think of is to look at your menu bar at the bottom for the volume control - might be a slide thing, and right click on it to enable it again??????????

Is it something simple like on the 'Control Panel' at the 'sounds and Multimedia'? or have you tried that?

no i have already checked the volume control, thanks

DS manages to turn off the sound on the computer at least once a week; it's gotten to the point I just try everything and suddenly something works.

Not to sound patronising, but Presumably you don't have a mute box clicked somewhere, and you haven't forgotten the dial at the side you physically turn yourself, in addition to the loudspeaker icon in the lower right (assuming this is a Windows' machine...)?

What happens if you reboot?

It's not a Powerbook is it???? For me it's key F5

What program do you use to watch the CD-ROMs - if it is media player then there is a secondary volume control on it. There is a click button and a small slider which controls some volume. If this is set to silent even if all your other settings are correct you won't be able to hear anything.

Its not the media player volume, i've just checked that. Its a laptop i'm using BTW