The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Multimedia buttons - How to make them work?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by vytautasvaicys, Nov 29, 2006.

  1. vytautasvaicys

    vytautasvaicys Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    81
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Hello everyone!

    I have a DV8000t. Good laptop overall, although there are problems with the keyboard. I dont know if they're the same as everyone else's.

    It started couple of months ago when the sound suddenly disappeared. I was like - okay, it must be something wrong with the copy of windows, let me just reinstall it. However, the problem still exists.

    Okay, so the issue is that I either have working sound control buttons on top, but no audio, or audio, but no way to contol it. When windows normally boots up, the buttons seem to be able to control volume output (the icon that is normally in the lower left hand corner), but no sound. In order to make sound work, I have to uninstall the drivers, then install them again. The media buttons stop working, but the sound works. There is no way to control it, it is at its default volume (probably 50%).

    Anyone else has this problems? Any solutions? Thanks very much in advance!

    Regards,

    V$
     
    vytautasvaicys, Nov 29, 2006
    #1
  2. vytautasvaicys

    vytautasvaicys Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    81
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    *BUMP*

    Just in case anyone was wondering - reinstalling windows does not help. Do you think its just a software problem or a serious hardware issue? THanks!
     
    vytautasvaicys, Nov 30, 2006
    #2
  3. novelidea

    novelidea Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Well I can't help you too much. I have a Compaq V5000z. After I installed Nero Ultra edition, it changed many things in my system and now the audio buttons at the top don't work, nor can I hear audio when watch videos in a browser (youtube, aol, etc).

    Audio works perfectly if I'm playing a song or a video in a regular player, though.
     
    novelidea, Dec 25, 2006
    #3
  4. sanpabloguy

    sanpabloguy Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    174
    Messages:
    714
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    If you left-click (once) the speaker icon in your systray, you should get a small pop up to adjust volume and mute/unmute. Is the slider set all the way to the top? Is the mute box unchecked?

    After checking, just click anywhere outside that box to close it.

    If that doesn't help, are there any conflicts showing up in your Device Manager?
     
    sanpabloguy, Dec 25, 2006
    #4