i have installed the right driver for this laptop (from the toshiba website)... there are no conflicts with the actual driver, it seems to be working fine, except of course THERE IS NO SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please help!!!

is there a check mark on the Mute in Volume icon in the task bar ?

may be there is a mute button on the laptop itself, check it !!

unfortunately no, already checked that to be sure i wasn't being stupid!!! lol

What about the properties of the audio device?

Are the speaker settings configured corectly?
Example: 5.1 speakers, headset, stereo 2.1 etc.

at the moment the audio setting is set to "Desktop stereo speakers" which is the default selection i thnk... i changed the setting several of the other choices, but the sound still didn't work...

if this helps ne one... the driver is called: "YAMAHA AC-XG Audio Deivice"

OMG OMG OMG HOW CAN SOMEONE BE THIS STUPID!!!! ( there is a wheel for udjusting the sound volume on the side of the laptop!!!! he he ) thatn you to the people who posted tho