Audio line-in stopped working suddenly

[phitzdisco]

I've been transferring old cassettes to my computer to burn them to CD for the past few weeks, and today when I went to hook my stereo into the line-in inputs on my computer I heard absolutely nothing. I tried a different device to see if it was the stereo or wires (a 4-track recorder) but still no sound through my speakers.

I've tried messing with volume levels, general troubleshooting to no avail. Anyone have any ideas of some setting somewhere I may have accidentally changed, or something I could do to try to remedy this problem? Thanks in advance. I have a newer model HP media desktop with a gig of ram if that makes any difference.

- Fred

 

[ShoobieRat]

Go into the advanced audio properties and verify that the line-in port is not muted or deactivated. Check in hardware manager that you aren't getting a flag on your sound card.

 

[phitzdisco]

No flags, volume is not muted, and I'm pretty sure that it's not deactivated. How do I make sure? Could it help to do a revert disc back a few days to see if something strange happened if I can't figure it out?

 

[ShoobieRat]

"Revert disc"? If you mean, restore from backup, then the only thing you lose is what you've done since the backup. If you mean system-restore, then you won't lose anything (file-wise).

Try reinstalling the correct audio drivers for your device. Then check what software you've installed recently (or PNP hardware).

 

[JSchenk]

Have you tried another audio port such as microphone? Or is it just the line-in port? (Trying to narrow down prob ;-)