Sound Suddenly Stopped Working After PC Restart

The title says it all, my sound stopped working after I restarted my PC, I got these screenshots to try to help.
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My PC is a Compaq CQ58, and this same thing happened before over a year ago, I simply system restored it, but I don't want to have to do that again.

Hi
Go to device manager and uninstall the sound driver then restart the unit and check if sound is back.
Try to update the Sound and Bios from HP website.
Let us know how it goes!
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