Laptop to big monitor - no sound

Hi guys.

My old Futistu Siemens Lifebook screen has suddeny started flickering badly. A bit of research suggests the inverter or back light bulb. (how to tell?)

I use this computer as my main pc in my office so its desk based.

As a temporary work around I’ve done the following:

Connected widescreen LED monitor by VGA cable. (D plug)
Connected (via USB splitter) keyboard, mouse & printer.

After some messing around eventually managed to get the screen display to change over to the big monitor. (turned out to be cntr + F10)

However I now realise I have no sound. The sound from the LT has stopped, the big monitor does not have integral speakers. I still have sat on my desk an old pair of speakers on a jack plug.
I’ve plugged them into the headphone socket on the LT (and remembered to switch them on!)
Although a bit of click can be heard as the jack is plugged in, I have no sound.

Any ideas?

I’ve sussed it :smiley:

Got into the sound control panel & found that it had put itself into mute mode. Unmuted it & bingo… let the music play on.

Thanks to the 14 who looked in to see if you could help.

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