[gui-talk] Windows 7 and total loss of sound

[Doug Lee]

Apologies if this is completely unrelated, but believe me, I'vee seen
this happen...

Make sure you're not bumping a button, getting too close to a sensor,
etc., that actually either mutes or minimizes the volume of your sound
card.  Many laptops provide those functions through buttons and/or
special key combinations involving a Function, or Fn, key, not to be
confused with the row of 12 function keys above the standard keys.
I've seen laptops on which just putting your hand too close to a
smooth spot on a bar above the keyboard would silence all sound until
you got near that very spot again to unmute. They detect your hand with
a sensor.

On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:28:44AM +0200, Christo de Klerk wrote:
It is not simply loss of speech that I experience, but loss of all sound.
The machine does not freeze, there is just no sound. I use Window-Eyes, but
it does not help to close Window-Eyes and restart it with its hotkey; there
is still no sound. I have to reboot to get sound back again.

I thought it was just something on my PC, but it seems that it is a known
issue. If so, why does Microsoft not fix it?

It is extremely annoying when this happens and it is completely random. All
can be fine for days on end and then it can happen twice on a day.

Please let us know should anyone hear of a fix.

Kind regards

Christo


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Humberto Avila
Sent: 04 December 2011 5:37 AM
To: 'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Windows 7 and total loss of sound

I do also experience this problem on my laptop computer running windows 7 64
bit with JAWS version 12.0.  my issue isn't that major though. I can just
unload JAWS by hitting the required keystrokes  and then turning him back on
with the hot key I've assigned to it, and sound works fine. There are a few
times where I do have to restart my computer, but other than that, it is
exceptional. 

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Don H
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 12:48 PM
To: GUI Talk
Subject: [gui-talk] Windows 7 and total loss of sound

Has anyone ever discovered a solution to the total loss of sound with
Windows 7?
I believe this is a known issue with Windows 7 where sound simply stops at
random times.
I have tried changing sound cards and making sure drivers are up to date
with no improvements.

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