No sound from my laptop

Hi i have an Hp laptop its just now a little over a year old and recently the sound has been acting funny. Sometimes i have no problems but other times i will go to watch a youtube video or play poker and there is no sound. Yes i made sure its not muted i checked the drivers and it said they are working properly so i dont know what else to do.

If you lack sound on streaming/websites it can be a codec issue.

Do you hear sound when windows is starting up?
Can you play videos, mp3's with sound?

If yes to the above, you can always try to install the ace mega codecs pack and see if that resolves the sound problems on your stream/website issue.

yes windows makes a sound starting up and i can SOMETIMES watch videos with sound. Today for example i had sound for about an hour then all of a sudden no sound. If i was to restart my computer right now more than likely i would have sound again but im wondering why this problem is occuring.

That is a very difficult question Chevyguy24

By chance you do not have a back up do you? Sometimes drivers and software can get messed up when you have downloaded to much, installed to much, un installed ect.

So one solution is to either use a back, or back up what you need and then do a clean install of windows with what ever drivers you might need for it.

Or you could try to download the codec pack.

Maybe Lippsman can offer some suggestion as what to do

Only way to know for sure is to maybe do a rollback to the last time it worked well.  (Windows system restore, not whole system restore)

Go to HP's website and download the driver again.

Really it's just going to be detective work for you. Being that you get sound for about an hour and then it stops, tells me that it's most likely not a driver issue.  But a hardware issue.

That would suck !!!!!!

But you can get PCMCIA sound cards if it is a hardware issue.

Well thanks guys i. I will start the detective work soon.