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Right click on your volume icon at the bottom right and click on "Adjust Audio Properties". Make sure your settings are properly set.
 
Right click on your volume icon at the bottom right and click on "Adjust Audio Properties". Make sure your settings are properly set.

already tried that BEFORE I posted here.

This is more serious than just doing that.....

thanks for trying to help though
 
There are two other things you can try. A mouse with a wheel and the keyboard themselves can be the culprit. Either one can be turning the volume down back to mute on you. One of the suggestions in the process of elimination is to try switching the mouse and keyboard (one at a time, of course) and see if it stops when you switch one of them.
 
LIDARKSIDE said:
There are two other things you can try. A mouse with a wheel and the keyboard themselves can be the culprit. Either one can be turning the volume down back to mute on you. One of the suggestions in the process of elimination is to try switching the mouse and keyboard (one at a time, of course) and see if it stops when you switch one of them.
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I have a keyboard with a mute button on it,
and I checked it, and its fine, not muting sound.

I have a mouse with a rolling ball on it.

I have had both of these items way before
the problem started.

The only way to seei if its either one, is to buy
new ones. Thats an option for way down the road,
as I cant spend the money on "spares" right now.

I will just have to deal with no music playing for now
I suppose.

thanks for your help.
 
There is no way of checking if the culprit is the mouse or keyboard without switching to other ones. Our computer was occasionally muting on its own. Just as everything eventually wears out, the arrow on the screen started stuttering when I moved the mouse. So, we replaced it for that problem, but the muting problem hasn't occurred since. So, it ended up being the mouse causing the occasional muting problem; but there is absolutely no way of knowing without switching them.

There's one more thing you can check. You can also try updating your sound drivers. Otherwise, you may want to get tech support.
 
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I am having a problem with Firefox crashing every time I click on a pull down menu on your site! It started happening yesterday, so I am unable to actually enter of the sweeps! Is anyone else having the same problem?
 
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I am having a problem with Firefox crashing every time I click on a pull down menu on your site! It started happening yesterday, so I am unable to actually enter of the sweeps! Is anyone else having the same problem?
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It's FF I think - I did an update for FF, then after I also updated ROBO, FF crashed like crazy. I disabled the FF roboform adapter and then it stopped.

I ended up clearing temp files/cookies & rebooting, then enabling the FF roboform adapter before opening FF and got an "allow" page.

They are finally working together and the crashes stopped.
 
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Need help with a GPU that's been blocked by FF. It's an ATI radeon Xpress. Told by FF to download 9.6 or newer. Do you have a link to a newer version, or if not, advice on how to unblock GPU?
 
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