Did you also press the spacebar on any of those checkboxes, to try to change the state, rather than just taking your neighbour's workd for it? There should also have been an error on-screen with windows loaded indicating if a sound card driver could not be loaded if that is the problem.
You'll need to have someone sighted more expert look at your computer screen. If you could load into Safe Mode, and follow any prompts, that might help. (For that you will need sighted assistance.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Stansifer" <lar...@infowest.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] No Speech, no load tones. At long last I was able to find a neighbor who took a look at my monitor -----Original Message----- >From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of tim Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 4:44 PM with the following results. Windows successfully loaded and displayed the desktop just as I have it configured. Upon opening the volume control in the system tray all of the mute check boxes were unchecked. This pretty exhausted my neighbor's technical expertise and I couldn't ask much more of her. I am thinking a sound card or sound card driver. Any ideas? BTW I did plug the speakers into my laptop to confirm that they were working. Larry. To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] No Speech, no load tones. make sure all speakers or headphones are plugged in. if so then grab you some eyes to have a look and see if anything is on the screen. That should tell you the end all truth. At 12:33 PM 7/19/2009, you wrote: >Hi Folks, > >The subject line pretty much says it all. > >This morning I started my desktop machine and absolutely nothing came >up. I attempted to load Narrator to no avail. Is there any way at all >to determine the status of the check boxes for the mute volume or >speakers in the system tray? > >TNX > >Larry > > >For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 279848613) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=279848613&m=627c34d8e55c&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=279848613&m=627c34d8e55c&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=279848613&m=627c34d8e55c&c=f REMEMBER: Never give out your account information, password, or other personal information over e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/