I recently had my Motherboard repaired but when the Laptop was returned the volume control wheel on the front is inactive and my speakers play at the same volume regardless of what I do with the wheel (the sound can be adjusted within windows and the fn hotkeys are all working)
Also the speaker out jack is not working, it does have power as I hear the 'crackle' of connection on plugging in a jack; whereas the line in (?- the pink one) works and I havn't tested the mic in.
Anyway Since getting it back I have reloaded Vista and the problem was the same and I have uninstalled the Realtek HD audio device in device manager but on reinstall it is the same problem.
The drivers I have are the same from the FSC website (6.0.1.5322)
Any help would be much appreciated many thanks. (Great forum )