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Solved Audio Stops Working After 4-5 Minutes But Works After Reboot

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No matter what video, game, program I am using, for some reason sound does not stay on. I will get 4-5 minutes of audio before it just stops working. The video keeps playing.

I first checked to see if the mute button kicked on by itself – it didnt.
I plugged in my headphones to see if that was part of the issue – it wasnt.
Rebooted my laptop, reloaded several different videos and got the same thing. less then 5 minutes and then audio just shuts off.
Went to Control panel and everything is as it should be.

Beyond frustrated as I have online lectures I need to hear, but am only getting it in bits and pieces after I reboot. And yes – after every reboot i get audio for 5 minutes or less.
0.o Puzzled! Thanks in advance for an help.

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  1. LOL, don’t worry. It’s a laptop anyway so it wouldn’t of had a sound card in the first place. The cards were originally designed to be add-ons in the good old days of DOS and Win3.1 but now sound is a requirement so they build it directly into the motherboard.

    Tried the Toshiba site yet? http://support.toshiba.com/

    Also, by googling it, you aren’t the only one who has this problem. Try this thread: http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Audio-…

    According to this thread, you could try a cleanup with Advanced System Care, then reboot and it fixes it for a while. Another post there says that it was a hardware problem and had to repaired; so I can’t entirely tell you what to do.

    If the cleanup doesn’t work, and it’s out of the warranty (which I suspect), you could also try getting an external USB audio adapter.

    ~oldie
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