Sound problem

I have an Alienware 14 laptop I dual boot Zorin 9 RC and Windows 7 Ultimate. Sometimes when I boot into Zorin I have no sound. Usually I can reboot back into Zorin and will have sound the second time. I always have sound in Windows. Before, in Zorin 8 .1 and before that either ver 7 or 6 the sound worked perfectly 100% of the time. Does anyone else have any sound problems? I wondered if this is a problem with Zorin 9 and my hardware, or if it's a wide spread problem with other computers too.
Thanks,
Snyde

Hi, Have you fully updated your system after install and followed Wolfman's excellent Post-Install Guide which has a section on sound?:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2054

Swarfendor437 wrote:Hi, Have you fully updated your system after install and followed Wolfman's excellent Post-Install Guide which has a section on sound?:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2054

Thanks for the tips! I had already updated the system, but did it again, then followed the guide but no change, even after rebooting several times. I don't know if this could have anything to do with my sound problems, but when I initially installed Zorin 9 I disabled the startup sound. I couldn't figure out how to enable it again, so I formatted that partition and reinstalled Zorin. I have sound now, but I don't know if it'll be permanent. I'll update this thread if I have any more problems.
Thanks again,
Snyde

Hi might be worth PM ing the Admins, AZorin and zorink so that they are aware of the issue before 9 Final is released.

Swarfendor437 wrote:Hi might be worth PM ing the Admins, AZorin and zorink so that they are aware of the issue before 9 Final is released.

Yes, I'll do that, because now that I reinstalled Zorin9 and left the startup sound enabled I've had sound every time I boot into Zorin.
Snyde

I re-installed Zorin 9 RC 6 days ago, left the startup sound enabled and now all the sound, mp3 playback, youtube videos etc., are working properly.

Just to let you know the final release is now available!

http://zoringroup.com/blog/2014/07/15/z ... -released/

Swarfendor437 wrote:Just to let you know the final release is now available!

http://zoringroup.com/blog/2014/07/15/z ... -released/

I've been updating the RC version since I installed it and am current now. Do I need to install the release version or since I updated the RC version does that bring it up to the release version? If I still need to install it should I boot from the release, format the RC partition and then install it?
Thanks,
Snyde

Hi, Take a look at Wolfman's Post-install guide on how to update without losing stuff:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2054