No it does not make a difference, the problem appears in both cases when
doing a cold boot or a warm reboot.
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No sound when muted in windows
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160679
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I have this same problem in a Toshiba Satellite U200-SP7011. I muted
the sounds in Windows XP, and now there seems to be no way to unmute it
from Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu 8.10.
I followed the instructions in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems, and the utils_alsa-info
scripts created