Hello everyone. This is my first post in this forum.
Since about a month, I've been having an annoying problem with my notebook's audio. Quite often, when I turn on my pc, my audio disappears after a couple of minutes. Sometimes there's no sound right from the start. The mute button stops working, because normally there's an orange light when you turn off the pc sound, well that doesn't happen anymore. Windows Media Player can only play such formats as mp4, avi etc with no sound in the background. However, it can't open mp3 files at all (error message shows up). Videos on websites such as youtube stop playing after a few seconds (although the buffer is still running, and of course there is no sound).
So basically, there's no type of audio coming from the speaker (like error sound, message sound, command sounds etc...)
I tried connecting headphones and external speakers, but no luck. I updated my audio driver, but it didn't help.
Furthermore, when I launch audio test from Control Panel, an error message shows up which says "Device currently used by another application. Please close all the applications that are using the device, and retry."
My notebook is quite new. It's an "HP Pavilion 15 - e070sl"
The whole thing is driving my crazy. It's really frustrating. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.