Tecchy help please - keep losing sound on the laptop...

Gone thru all the troubleshooters and restored system twice without luck. Daughter number 2 turned it off without shutting down I think. Retsored it once by using system restore but not working histime - any ideas please? Toshiba Qosmio running windows XP.
Thanks
Chris
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any ideas?

 

Wouldn't have thought that turning it off without shutting it down would do any damage to the sound.

You could try re-installing the sound driver which you may be able to find on here

http://www.driverscollection.com/?H=Qosmio G30&By=Toshiba

unless someone else has any other suggestions.

 

I've found a deal of laptops have the recovery disk then a drivers installation disk as well, do you have the speaker icon down in the right hand corner by the time..... if so then the driver would appear installed.

Maybe a loose connection inside, if it caries on and doesn't get sorted there's plenty of USB speakers etc so not the end of the world,