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

Sun Dec 4 07:34:16 UTC 2011

I am running Windows 7 on a desktop. There are no sensors on my keyboard and
it does not have an FN key like laptops have. But yes, It is possible that
some circumstance is muting sound, but if that is so, my problem is how to
unmute it without sound. My PC always chooses to do this when there are no
seeing eyes available.

Oh and I have been able to prove that the PC does not freeze when this
happens, because keyboard commands work. Pressing the Windows ke followed by
tab twice followed by Enter turns off the computer. When I look at my hard
disk light with a light probe, it shows me that there is disk activity when
I give keyboard commands, such as closing and opening Window-Eyes. The
clincher is a test which, when I press a hotkey, executes a batch file which
writes to a file just saying Loss of speech. So, the PC is running fine. Now
if only I knew how to get back sound.

Yesterday this happened. All I was doing at the time, was to arrow down a
list of messages in ThunderBird and suddenly, silence.

Kind regards

Christo

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Doug Lee
Sent: 04 December 2011 8:18 AM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Windows 7 and total loss of sound

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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