Windows Update - Speakers not Working

[chelsea_lover17]

All,

Running windows 8. Just got the annoying blue ribbon on my screen counting down from 15 minutes warning that my computer was going to restart to install 'important' updates. This all seemed a bit random, id only updated the other day i thought..

Anyway, upon my computer restarting, I have discovered that my laptops speakers are not working. I have checked the drivers and all are up to date and I have also done a hard reset, or so I believe, but shutting down and removing all power, including the battery with no luck.

Speakers turned up to full but no sound at all. I have checked 'update history' and according to my computer, these been no updates since the 10th of this month, 3 days ago. So what exactly happened earlier?

Anyone have any ideas at all? Im sick of these windows updates and even more annoyed now!!

Thanks.

 

[Yami]

Are your speakers set as the default playback device? You can so here:

 

[chelsea_lover17]

Hi Yami, yup I checked all that.

Anyway, 3 restarts later, they randomly kicked in and started working. Checked twitter and seems like the issue has happened to quite a few people after windows update.

 

[chelsea_lover17]

ARGH its stopped working again, this is such a joke!