My laptop has one, but it's pretty easy to spot. It's directly to the right
of the volume buttons, the Volume Up key being convex versus the concave
Volume Down and Mute keys. So I've never actually had issues with that. My
problem was that for some bizarre reason the volume would inexplicably reset
itself to zero, usually after a restart. It's fortunate that I'm familiar
with the layout of the start menu or I wouldn't have been able to correct
that on my own. That hasn't happened in quite a while though so I don't know
what the deal is, but apparently it also used to happen to my folks as well.
I remember one time I'd accidentally booted up Judgment Day while trying to
access volume control. Of course that actually helped when the sound started
coming back on since it was playing the game's intro.
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From: "Katie Madison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Beware of the Death Key
Hi Phil,
Thanks for the email. I had no idea that some keyboards came with a mute
key. Thank goodness mine doesn't. My advice is that if you're keyboard has
a mute key, label it in a way that you know what the key is. I'm glad
you're wife solved the problem.> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; gamers@audyssey.org> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008
10:42:07 -0500> Subject: [Audyssey] Beware of the Death Key> > Beware of
the Death key.> by Phil Vlasak.> My wife was haply playing a game on her
new Vista computer when all of a > sudden,> her computer died.> At first
she thought that Jaws had crashed so she shut it down and> re-started it.>
No speech came forth.> Next she re-booted the computer and no sounds or
speech came up.> Well, I said, it must be the headphones.> So she checked
the cord from the headphones to the computer and they were > still plugged
in.> Then she pulled out the headphone cable and tested the speakers and>
no sound came forth.> She next tried the volume up key on her keyboard and
still nothing.> Then she remembered the death key, and she pressed it and
glory be, sound > and speech was restored!> What is this death key you may
ask?> For the blind it is the mute key.> The computer's sounds stay muted
even through warm and cold boots and can > only come back to life when the
key is pressed again.> So beware of that key and remember its location as
your finger too might > slip and press the death key.> > > > ---> Gamers
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