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It is downloading at the moment but it wont be till tomorrow morning that I start the install as I feel its too late to do it tonight. I will keep people updated to whether I find a solution. Thanks to everyone for your help though.

Thank you for the thought @STRMfrmXMN , but that was the first thing I tried to. If you look at my original post. The first image shows the result of this. Apparently "hardware changes might not have been detected". But no hardware changes have been made so I'm lost. Thank you anyway

Okay. I will give that a go tomorrow as its late where I am and will probably make a mistake as I'm tired. Thanks for your help, hopefully your right

Nope, still didn't work is it possible the audio card / chip in my laptop has gone? Its still under warranty but I want to avoid the loss of my laptop for 2-4 weeks if possible. This laptop has been nothing but problem i've had it for 8 months and 2 months ago the LCD Panel failed (black screen) and now I think the audio chip has failed.

Thought I would just add this screen shot in. Does it mean the sound card has gone in my laptop? as it says that there is no audio devices.

I am downloading the Realtek drivers now, will be 30 mins before I find out thanks to my useless home internet

I have a HP Envy 4 laptop and last week the audio went after having been connected to an external monitor via HDMI. Now the laptop speakers no longer work. using external speakers doesn't work either. Neither do head phones. There is no audio period. I started by running windows troubleshooter, which was absolutely useless in providing any useful information to a fix as usual. I suspected a driver issue. So I opened device manager to see if there was any issues. I was correct. "High Definition Audio Controller" had an issue. So I click on the faulty driver to see what was wrong. Apparently the driver is corrupt... So I un-installed the driver and downloaded the audio driver from HP's website for my specific laptop. I then installed the new drivers. Same problem... apparently driver corrupt. how can this be it was a new download straight from HP for my specific laptop which they even identified using the laptop hardware checker... I don't know what do do Any help will be much appreciated. I need audio as I use this laptop daily for work and leisure.

Thanks I will give both these a try later tonight as I have to go out now. I will try these when I get back in. Thanks in advance.

Haha, yeah I really want to get on the game now... but steam seems to have other plans.. i will keep looking and if i find a solution I will post it here.

Thank you, both of you, I just found this out by googling before looking back here. Thank you anyways. I am giving it a try now and will report back if successful Cheers

I would give this a try but I have no idea of how to verify the game cache with steam. Is this an easy thing to do?

High thanks for the advice, I gave it a try but unfortunately neither have helped my situation. It is weird as there is no error code given. Thanks for trying to help though.

Yesterday I started downloading shadow of mordor on steam. I left the download overnight and in the morning I saw the download had completed and tried to launch the game. When i click play in steam it seems as if nothing happens. Syncing appears next the the game name for a split second then nothing happens.... Any help is much appreciated... I have no idea what to do. Thanks

Well I'm happy to see that the Zotac Rumor of this card being $700+ was wrong . But I'll still have to wait for a sale.

Some company's such as EVGA offer 3 year world wide warranties meaning what country you purchase it in doesn't effect your warranty. Thats why I would always buy EVGA graphics cards and have my friend in US send it over to me in the UK.