Yesterday at home I was watching some Youtube video when suddenly my speakers stopped working,
I don't know why or how, but they just stopped. I promptly tried switching from the line out module at the back panel to the headphone module at the front and my speakers were fine.
I have a dell vostro small desktop 3710, I also went through dell support assist hardware diagnosis tool and all hardware was tested to be in working conditions and when I tried searching on the web for solutions, none of the ones I tested worked.
I tried restarting pulseaudio, tried disabling auto-mute from alsamixer, tried messing with pulseaudio daemon.conf file and more, but, strange thing is, when I start/restart my computer, at the login screen and just after that, my speakers work normally, but as soon as I open any application the sound completely disappears and never returns. Any help is appreciated.