I should've mentioned this earlier, but yes my sound driver is updated.
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Laptop sound keeps turning off
Disclaimer: I am no computer expert, also new to this site so hello, and I've also already searched extensively for solutions before posting this, and tried them, to no avail. also, I have an HP Envy, Windows 8, 8 gigs of RAM (if that's relevant) and the name of my soundcard (or what I think is my soundcard) is IDT High Definition Audio CODEC. Now onto the problem:
This started happening a few months ago. Usually when I'm listening to music or playing a game, the sound will sometimes go off completely after a while, just suddenly. The sound goes off regardless of whether I'm using earphones or laptop speakers. Some other symptoms of this are that the volume slider will not go up or down, or do it very slowly, like if I hold it down it only goes down from 100 to 96. Also, the mute blinker light stops working. Basically the entire sound system, and maybe soundcard, stops responding. If I try to fiddle with it too much, it also affects computer speed in general, and it starts making noises and getting warm. The only TEMPORARY fix I have found is to either restart, or close then open my laptop lid twice. If done only once, the volume slider and mute blinker start working again, but there's still no sound. I have already tried disabling and enabling my sound driver. When I do this, the little caution icon comes up next to it and it doesn't run properly, but upon restarting it's fine (though it never fixes the sound problem permanently). Same thing when I reinstall the thing. So I think that the sound driver might be corrupted or something, but I don't know what to do. Another possible problem might just be that the laptop just can't handle it and the driver stops responding, but that's odd since I bought this laptop just a year ago, it does other things completely fine. Also running a YouTube video shouldn't be that hard. I haven't found solutions elsewhere and I signed up just to ask this one question, so I really desperately need help. I'll be leaving for college soon, and I won't have my desktop then, so I hope you understand my situation. Thanks in advance for any help
This started happening a few months ago. Usually when I'm listening to music or playing a game, the sound will sometimes go off completely after a while, just suddenly. The sound goes off regardless of whether I'm using earphones or laptop speakers. Some other symptoms of this are that the volume slider will not go up or down, or do it very slowly, like if I hold it down it only goes down from 100 to 96. Also, the mute blinker light stops working. Basically the entire sound system, and maybe soundcard, stops responding. If I try to fiddle with it too much, it also affects computer speed in general, and it starts making noises and getting warm. The only TEMPORARY fix I have found is to either restart, or close then open my laptop lid twice. If done only once, the volume slider and mute blinker start working again, but there's still no sound. I have already tried disabling and enabling my sound driver. When I do this, the little caution icon comes up next to it and it doesn't run properly, but upon restarting it's fine (though it never fixes the sound problem permanently). Same thing when I reinstall the thing. So I think that the sound driver might be corrupted or something, but I don't know what to do. Another possible problem might just be that the laptop just can't handle it and the driver stops responding, but that's odd since I bought this laptop just a year ago, it does other things completely fine. Also running a YouTube video shouldn't be that hard. I haven't found solutions elsewhere and I signed up just to ask this one question, so I really desperately need help. I'll be leaving for college soon, and I won't have my desktop then, so I hope you understand my situation. Thanks in advance for any help
