Anyone know how to fix a speaker issue?

[McLaughlin]

I woke up this morning, pulled my computer out of sleep mode, and lo and behold, my speakers were suddenly not working. I tried restarting my PC, disabling and re-enabling my speakers, and uninstalling/re-installing my speaker drivers. Nada. They were working fine last night.

At this point I'm thinking my sound card is probably shot, but I figured I'd see if any audiophiles here want to suggest any more trouble shooting options. Having never replaced a sound card before I'm a bit reluctant to go to Best buy in the morning and buy one, especially if it isn't even the problem.

Anyone have any ideas?

[CelestialBlade]

Try the speakers in another device. I think it's either Windows or your sound card personally, but at least narrow that down.

Sound cards are pretty easy to deal with, just pop em in a PCI slot and load your drivers. I have an extreme hatred of sleep mode so I'm even reluctant to call it hardware, but I doubt it's your speakers.

Go over your audio settings too. Windows sleep mode does some weird, weird shit in my experience.

[McLaughlin]

Ah, when I say it was sleeping, I just mean that I left it on overnight. I don't think it actually hibernates. My monitors just shut off.

I plugged my speakers into my laptop and they worked. I also fumbled around in the Sound control panel thing. My speakers were enabled and set as the default output device. I tried messing with the Speaker Balance as well but no sound came out regardless of what I did. I don't have an HDMI cable to connect my monitors with (they both use DVI) so I couldn't try using my monitor speakers.

I'm reasonably confident my sound card is an integrated one, if it makes any difference.

[Seany1990]

You have restarted the computer at some point right?

[CelestialBlade]

Ah, when I say it was sleeping, I just mean that I left it on overnight. I don't think it actually hibernates. My monitors just shut off.

I plugged my speakers into my laptop and they worked. I also fumbled around in the Sound control panel thing. My speakers were enabled and set as the default output device. I tried messing with the Speaker Balance as well but no sound came out regardless of what I did. I don't have an HDMI cable to connect my monitors with (they both use DVI) so I couldn't try using my monitor speakers.

I'm reasonably confident my sound card is an integrated one, if it makes any difference.
Had a feeling it was integrated. A PCI sound card won't run you much, so that's probably what you're looking at now since your speakers are clearly fine and your sound settings don't seem unusual.

[Nitro Vordex]

Try another pair in your computer, or your headphones.

[andrewall]

There might be some connection problems or the port has damaged.Check this one too.