maundy wrote:Ok if you want to guide me through it I guess I can try and look at the guts of the laptop.
It's a Toshiba Satellite Pro, an older one, I think it is two years old, and it was never top of the line.
Guidance and instructions are more than welcome if you think it can be done by unscrewing the case and fiddling around inside.
I am comfortable to do that if you tell me what it is I have to do.
Thanks.
And yeah, it either was the registry or he went inside my computer and sabotaged it because my music shitted him.
Being a laptop, the sound card is (most probably) an on-board chip (i.e it is soldered onto the motherboard, not really tamperable). Actually, most new desktop motherboards also have good sound chips soldered on.
It's possible that the chip was damaged. It's more likely that the earphone jack was damaged. Have you tried a different plug? Also try rotating the plug (sometimes the plugs get better contact on one side, than the other). If you have a different plug (ear buds, etc), try those and see if it changes.
If it crackles when you wiggle or rotate the plug, then you have narrowed down the problem to the mechanical connection there.
Also, most laptops have a volume control in the keys above the keyboard. Try those, if you haven't already.
Note: I see a reference to a turn knob for volume, on the Satellites. What does your computer have for sound control?
Another possibility is that your "friend" installed an incorrect sound driver (breaking your Windows sound) and that Puppy is not loading the correct sound driver.
Check for the simple mechanical problems, before assuming that it is software, however. If there is no variation with mechanical wiggling and changing to a different plug, then you need to post the details of your hardware (i.e. a full-er description of your computer) -- so the experts can look at possible driver issues.
BTW, do you have a copy of Knoppix (my favorite is 5.1.1)? It is a live-boot CD that works pretty well. Try it and see if you get sound (which would indicate a software/driver problem) -- it "talks" to you at completion of loading, so you would know if you're getting sound.
Let me reiterate: all the descriptions you have given us sound like mechanical connection issues (it seems that the sound card actually works, but crackles and cuts out intermittently).
But putting linux on it and removing windows did nothing to rectify my sound card. The guys are not nice people, they are total scum. They also think random acts of violence are funny, and lying about their occupations is hilarious too.
With Puppy Linux, you didn't need to remove Windows to try it, or run it (I run my older XP laptop with a Frugal install -- booting Puppy from the CD when I want Puppy, eject the disk when I don't).
BTW, which guys were not nice? Your implication is that people conspired to make you wreck your machine... (here? elsewhere?)