No sound through speakers in Windows 8

Yes I am aware that there are threads with this questions and none of them have any solutions apart from
reinstalling drivers, reformat the HDD, reinstall the OS blah blah.
My laptop model is E420 and none of the above work, the Lenovo drivers are all out of date, buggy pieces of crap for Windows 8 PREVIEW not 8 or 8.1 or anything.
There are also a whole host of problems mostly buggy drivers.
So here's what I have done so far:
1. uninstall and reinstall the sound driver from Lenovo website - didn't work
2. Repeated 1. - didn't work either
3. Checked the sound control panel - the sound device is default and enabled
4. Checked the device manager - sound device is working correctly
5. Reformatted my computer - completely empty, no drivers or anything - let windows do everything; still no sound
6. Installed the driver from Lenovo - didn't work, repeated 1. - still didn't work
7. Updated the BIOS - didn't work.
8. Uninstalled the driver and let windows update try and fix it - didn't work.(probably just found the same driver)
9. Wiggled and rattled the audio jack to check if the switch inside was stuck - didn't work, the audio jack was fine
10. Unplugged everything from the laptop and rebooted (no USB devices, projectors, only power and LAN) - didn't work
I think I have tried every option I have and still can't get the sound to work. I have a work around but it is very annoying to do:
- Unplug everything (USB, HDMI, VGA)
- Pull out the AC power
- Take out the battery
- press and hold the power button for 30 sec or so
Then put everything back and tada! I got sound!
What annoys me is that everything was working in Windows 7 but not 8
So what is this? Windows 8 problem? Or is it driver issues? Hardware issues?!?!
This laptop isn't ancient, the hardware inside is good enough for an ultrabook!
Any advice? I don't what to have to do the work around everytime I want to have the sound working.
PS - Any Lenovo software engineers out there please update your drivers, they are woefully outdated

I just bought a carbon X1 laptop i cant believe I'm having issues with it already, I use skype for work and i'm in sales need to make 100 sales calls a day, and the last 3 days i'm having nightmares about this laptop.
Everytime i try to make a call it says "failed to play test sound error" i try to open up youtube and nothing seems to have sound. I reboot the sound comes back on the laptop for about one hr. It goes again.
Has anyone at all gone through the same thing and does anyone have any solutions. Really urgent
thanks
niamh
krisdeniseriley wrote:
I have a lenovo u310 ideapad touch and had lots of sound issues after updating to 8.1. When trying to test sound i kept getting the "failed to play test sound error". I would uninstall and reinstall and nothing.
Solution for me: So i went into control panel/sound. Double click on sound, and then go to the recording tab "the second tab from left". If there is nothing showing in the window, that means that all devices are disabled. Right click inside that window and choose to show disabled devices. Then enable the stereo mix, which is the default device.
That worked for me. I had tons of issues and was fed up of having no sound watching things on my ideapad.
Let me know if it worked for you!!!

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