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February 15th, 2014 14:00

Problem with Audio Alienware14

This is actually just something I did myself and was hoping someone here might be able to help me with. I don't know what posessed me to do this, but I have a second monitor, and the audio was coming out of it instead of my headphones for some reason so I right clicked the little speaker logo on the task bar and clicked audio control options, then I went into the audio device properties and deleted it for some reason unknown to me. Now I have no audio or mic, and my computer is saying it can't detect the sound card. Not entirley sure how possible this is to fix, but any help would be appreciated.

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    Posted February 15th, 2014 15:00

    This is actually just something I did myself and was hoping someone here might be able to help me with. I don't know what posessed me to do this, but I have a second monitor, and the audio was coming out of it instead of my headphones for some reason so I right clicked the little speaker logo on the task bar and clicked audio control options, then I went into the audio device properties and deleted it for some reason unknown to me. Now I have no audio or mic, and my computer is saying it can't detect the sound card. Not entirley sure how possible this is to fix, but any help would be appreciated.
     
    Well, from the Mixer or even Control Panel/Sound ... you can't actually DELETE audio devices and/or sources. However, you can assign/config them and change Defaults. You might check there and make proper settings.
     
    If you actually deleted something, you must have done that from "Device Manager" or "Devices and Printers". To get those back you will likely have to reload the appropriate drivers. Someone who knows the Alienware-14 laptop (better than me) will have to help you with that.
     
     
     

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    Posted February 18th, 2014 10:00

    Go to the device manager, if there is any unknown device (with an exclamation mark) under audio devices I would recommend you to download and install the latest audio drivers for your PC.

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