Thanks for all your suggestions guys, the laptop is no longer silent. One thing that I learned with respect to my Dell inspiron running windows XP-pro is that the function key located right of the left-hand control key when pressed in conjunction with the end key will either mute or enable all sound including jaws. That same function key when pressed in conjunction with the page-up and page-down will raise and lower the volume accordingly. Our IT guy at work sorted it out for me this morning and put me on to the keystrokes. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chip Orange Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:58 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Silent Laptop It's obviously not jaws, since he's not getting normal windows sounds, it's a problem with the sound card and/or sound drivers. ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) _____ From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RAWest Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:28 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Silent Laptop Did you try unloading jaws and reloading it? _____ From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Stansifer Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:05 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Silent Laptop Hi Folks, This morning while in the middle of a project my laptop simply quit speaking.. I have a Dell Inspiron laptop running Jaws 8 and windows-XP. A sighted colleague told me that I had the desktop and all of the windows functionality however, I get absolutely no sound not even Narrator or Windows load sound. Any ideas how to make this thing talk? _____ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail is spam: Spam <https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=152623768&m=76f28fe68a2b&c=s> Not <https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=152623768&m=76f28fe68a2b&c=n> spam Forget <https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=152623768&m=76f28fe68a2b&c=f> previous vote