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Sound problems are common issue that can be fix even if you are unable to hear anything coming out of your speaker.
Speaker are naturally known for producing sounds, when a sound a speaker fails to produce sound, it means there is something wrong somewhere and doesn’t necessary means you have a bad Dell laptop speaker.
There are different ways I am going to show you to fix sound issues on your Dell laptop.
Firstly, you must make sure your Dell speakers are working perfectly fine.
You don’t want a case whereby you are trying to fix a software problem when you are dealing with a hardware problem.
Also make sure your Dell laptop is plugged in and charging before you begin to troubleshoot your sound system.
Before I begin, let me show you why your sound isn’t working on your Dell laptop
here’s why,
If your Dell laptop isn’t playing any sound, it means the problem could be related to hardware or software.
Hardware is referring to your Dell laptop speaker while the software is referring to errors that can lead to your Dell laptop speaker not to work. An error could be a driver problem, either your Dell audio driver is outdated and needs to updated or your Dell audio driver updated a driver that made your Dell laptop not to play any sound.
To know if your Dell laptop speaker is working perfectly, you must perform a self-diagnostic test.
Every method in this article is applicable to every windows version, i.e. you can use this method if your Dell laptop is running on windows 7, 8 and 10.
Here’s how,
Now that you have troubleshot your Dell speaker to detect any sound problem, let’s proceed by testing your speaker if it will produce any sound.
Here’s how,
This fix is for both internal and external speakers.
Make sure you follow every instruction below to help resolve your sound problem.
Your sound volume is an important factor when you can hear any sound coming out of your Dell laptop speakers.
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To check your sound volume on your Dell laptop speaker,
Now for your cable,
If you are using an external speaker, make sure the cable is well plugged in and make your sound port is working.
To check speaker cable on your Dell laptop, I recommend you give your Dell laptop to a computer engineer for proper checkup.
Here’s how to update your Dell laptop audio driver on your Dell laptop
Here’s how to roll back to your previous audio driver on your Dell laptop.
Dell recommends updating the device drivers and BIOS as part of your scheduled update cycle.
It is essential to update the following device drivers for optimal audio or sound playback performance and to resolve common audio or sound playback-related issues:
Here’s how to download & update audio drivers directly from Dell website on your Dell laptop.
This should be a last resort.
If you have tried everything and nothing seems to work but you are sure your speakers are just fine, then you should consider resetting your Dell laptop.
By resetting your Dell laptop, this will convert your system back to factory default and you might lose all your installed files.
To wrap this up,
Remember to make sure your speakers are working before you proceed to learn how to fix sound issue.
To know if your speakers are working, test it with the guide I provided.
Check your connection port properly to see if there’s anything stuck in it.
Update your drivers
After doing all this and your Dell laptop speaker refuses to play any sound, you should consider giving a computer engineer for a proper checkup or you can just get an external Bluetooth device here