R60 has no sound output / no alarm beeps

[aPanzerIV]

I recently bought a R60 on ebay for 45 bones that was said to work perfectly. It came with a bit more than advertised(entire working laptop minus ac-adapter). I cannot get any sound in windows, I have tried installing the realtek audio codecs and the soundmax "audio features XI" avalible on the lenovo page. Plus, there is no beep when I unplug the laptop/low battery/whatnot. I do not get any sound from headphones either. Modem and power beeps are enabled in bios. Any help with this?

[ajkula66]

Boot from a "live" Linux CD and check whether you have sound there.

If not, it's a hardware problem.

Good luck.

[RealBlackStuff]

Check the plug and cable from the front-speakers to the mobo connector.
It sits left/top of the RAM modules.
Is it plugged in? Maybe broken?

[aPanzerIV]

Our schools IT guy has a thinkpad and told me that the physical mute and volume buttons do not show on screen when you press them. I thought they didn't work but in fact it was just muted with that button.

[ajkula66]

Our schools IT guy has a thinkpad and told me that the physical mute and volume buttons do not show on screen when you press them.

They actually do show up on the screen if one has hotkey features installed.