External speakers no longer working

Posted by Mark Robinson on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Mark Robinson
Published on 2010-12-22T19:46:19Z Indexed on 2010/12/22 19:56 UTC
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We have a Windows Vista laptop. On Monday we hooked it up to external speakers, as we always do, and they worked fine. On Tuesday, we did the same but then the speakers did not work. Weirdly, the laptop internal speaker does work. Nothing was changed between Monday and Tuesday.

What happened and, more importantly, how can it be fixed?

BTW we tested with other speakers (and cable) and that didn't help. So it seems like a laptop issue.

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