About a month ago I suddenly stopped getting audio I from my laptop speakers. I was still getting audio from the headphone jack and HDMI.
I thought it was an issue caused by windows update so I tried to check for the latest audio drivers.
I had the latest so I went to HP drivers page and downloaded the original drivers. I installed the IDT HD drivers, did the restart and nothing changed, I was still having the same problem.
I tried to disable the “audio device” and device manager, uninstalled it, re-enable it, reinstalled it, but nothing happed, changed the default communications device. I thought the speakers were either burned or gone.
To test for hardware I run a live Ubuntu 8.10 64bits and to my surprise they worked. The generic drivers did work!
I proceeded then to do a clean installation of Windows installing the corresponding drivers. I finished installing the Intel HD graphics controller and then the IDT. The speakers were not working. Did windows update again restarted the laptop several times and still have the same problem. Windows and the Controls IDT audio settings don’t detect any errors. Headphones and Bluetooth speakers work just fine.
Today I was playing with the Controls IDT audio settings while I was listening to music using my headphones. On the “Communications headphones” I did a “test speakers”. I heard a hissing noise on the headphones and music on the speakers. Windows sound tones also work when I do the speakers test on the headphones.
Any ideas on how to solve this issue?
