Sound Systems issues (I have no sound with my web browser but I have sound with some apps and not in other apps)

[Xarzu]

Whenever I go to any web content, so far, I don't have any sound. Youtube and other websites are silent. And this goes for Chrome, Firefox and Edge.

But the interesting thing is that I have audio capacity on other programs like audacity and skype.

Any ideas?

The problem started the day that one of my computer monitors went out (the display physically stopped working -- that is, it was receiving power and even the cursor behaved as if it was being displayed on the monitor but the display was physically blank). But I was able to go buy a better monitor and install it. During the process of doing this I knocked my graphics card (the only card on my mother board, by the way) out and I had to put it back.

But i got the monitor working. and visually everything is fine

There is not a sound card in the mother board. So that is not the issue.

But there are many cables and wires coming out of the power source that are not connected to anything. The motherboard manufacturer is MSi. Maybe I can contact them.

Anyway, this post is just the start of my journey. I hope I can solve this soon and your input is valuable towards this goal.

I found this post https://hardforum.com/threads/browser-wont-play-sound.2027772/ but I don't think I am having the same sort of problem. All of my sound is coming from the same port at the front of the computer. It is not an issue with one port being recognized whilst another is not.

 

[atarione]

Some programs Audacity for sure and I am honestly not sure about skype? let you select the audio device in the program...

What I think** happened is your default audio device got changed during swapping monitor ..etc..

open control panel and then click "Hardware and Sound" then "Manage audio devices" find the correct audio device (presumably Speakers Realtek audio if you are using front panned connection) right click it and set it as default device (if it isn't currently).

Power supplies tend to have additional connectors for future expansion double check that everything that should be plugged in is. But that isn't an issue really.

see image for sound control panel.

 

[GotNoRice]

The above suggestion is a good one. But if you haven't already, you might simply check the Volume Mixer. It's possible for different programs to have their volumes set independently. Make sure that none of the volumes are turned down. You can also use the Volume Mixer to double check what your main Output Device is set to.