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February 11th, 2018 07:00
Inspiron 3520 audio not working
Hello,
I am in need of help. I have had my Dell Inspiron 3520 laptop for about 2 years now and it has never faulted or messed up. As of last week thursday, my laptop began to have audio problems.
Everything was normal, i was watching YouTube when the sound just cut off. I thought maybe my laptop was glitching so i restarted it. When it came back on, there was a red X by the volume icon. Upon opening the "playback devices", both the speakers AND the headphones were completely gone from the list. Even with "show disabled devices" & "show disconnected devices" ticked on. Another thing i noticed waa my speakers making a cracking static noise. A few days passed by and the cracking noise finally stopped thursday afternoon so i finally got to work.
For the past few days I've been googling every thing and doing everything in my power to fix this issue. I uninstalled and reinstalled drivers, i downloaded the Realtek driver because i thought maybe my laptop was missing that but still nothing happened, i downloaded the correct driver off of the Dell website thinking maybe that was the issue but nothing happened and i restored my computer but again nothing happened.
I ran a test in the Diagnostic area and was able to hear the sound through my speakers so i dont think they are broken. Can anyone please help me?
I am in need of help. I have had my Dell Inspiron 3520 laptop for about 2 years now and it has never faulted or messed up. As of last week thursday, my laptop began to have audio problems.
Everything was normal, i was watching YouTube when the sound just cut off. I thought maybe my laptop was glitching so i restarted it. When it came back on, there was a red X by the volume icon. Upon opening the "playback devices", both the speakers AND the headphones were completely gone from the list. Even with "show disabled devices" & "show disconnected devices" ticked on. Another thing i noticed waa my speakers making a cracking static noise. A few days passed by and the cracking noise finally stopped thursday afternoon so i finally got to work.
For the past few days I've been googling every thing and doing everything in my power to fix this issue. I uninstalled and reinstalled drivers, i downloaded the Realtek driver because i thought maybe my laptop was missing that but still nothing happened, i downloaded the correct driver off of the Dell website thinking maybe that was the issue but nothing happened and i restored my computer but again nothing happened.
I ran a test in the Diagnostic area and was able to hear the sound through my speakers so i dont think they are broken. Can anyone please help me?
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ieee488
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February 11th, 2018 11:00
Do you have an external speaker to try?
Dell-SreejithR
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February 11th, 2018 18:00
Thank you for your message. We will be glad to look into this for you.
Was there any recent software changes made like installing any update, games or anti-virus? What is the present OS installed on your computer?
Please click on the message tab – click new message & search for my Dell username (Dell-Sreejith R) & send a private message with the service tag, registered name & email address.
Jim Coates
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February 12th, 2018 04:00
Mia19
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February 16th, 2018 15:00
I currently do not own one as of now.
EDIT: So my mom has one and I used hers and the external speaker works. However, if i disconnect it, I'm right back to square one :(
Mia19
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February 16th, 2018 15:00
Hi, so i tried the system restore already and all it did was restore it back to a few days before when it still was missing sound :(
Mia19
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February 16th, 2018 15:00
No, I was just watching youtube when this randomly happened. My OS Name says Microsoft Windows 8.1/ 64 bit operating system.
Jim Coates
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February 17th, 2018 05:00
@Mia19"i restored my computer"
Hello. I overlooked where you had said your restored, in your original message.
If by restored you mean you performed a system recovery (returned the laptop back to the original factory configuration), and you tested immediately after the recovery, and the audio worked all right through the headphone jack but not through the speakers, then there has been hardware failure. System recovery is the best test there is to discover whether or not there has been hardware failure rather than a software issue.
@Mia19"the external speaker works"
Just to be clear, the external speakers were the kind that you plug into the laptop's audio jack, rather than usb or bluetooth speakers?
@Mia19 "Upon opening the "playback devices", both the speakers AND the headphones were completely gone from the list. "
There are no playback devices there at all? Because if not, i can't figure what is functioning in order for audio to be sent to the external speaker.