Speakers not working after swapping hard drive!

[Akwiz]

So I recently upgraded my laptops HDD. I was getting a little low on space so I used a program called driveclone to clone my current ~900GB drive to a new 2TB Drive. Both drives are internal 2.5" 5400 RPM drives. The clone completed successfully and I popped the new drive in.

Everything looks like its working more or less but, I notice that I cant increase the volume. Strange
So I run troubleshooting on my audio and it tells me the speakers are not even plugged in. I opened up device manager and there is a yellow exclamation mark on my Audio Device. So I uninstalled it, and re-installed the audio driver that came with the laptop. Still no luck.

I am a little worried at this point so I swap the hard drives back, putting the original back in the laptop. Boots up normally, but still no audio. I plug in some headphones and they don't work either. Normally when I plug in headphones the laptop notifies me something has been plugged into the jack but nothing. I am able to connect to blue tooth speakers fine though.

I checked the bios settings thinking something might have been changed there but I reset all settings to default and still no audio. I really doubt I damaged the speakers when I was inside. I didn't touch them at all but I suppose it is possible, however unlikely. Should I call Lenovo support and send the laptop in? Or is there something I am not thinking about. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

FYI I have a Lenovo Y510p with windows 8.1

 

[jhaydon81]

download the Audio drivers from the Lenovo website and try that

 

[Akwiz]

Ok, unisntalled the old drivers and downloaded the latest from the site but same problem.

 

[jhaydon81]

if the pc has a yellow symbol in device manager its a driver issue maybe try reinstalling your OS

 

[Akwiz]

I think it has the yellow symbol because I have drivers installed but windows can't detect the device. The error I get is "Audio peripheral does not appear to be plugged in. The speaker, headset or headphone is unplugged" Like there is a loose wire or something.

 

[jhaydon81]

That would be unlikely if you just changed a hard drive but who knows lol.

 

[Akwiz]

I have seen some posts elsewhere regarding changes to the BIOS when hardware is swapped. This would make a bit of sense too as the audio no longer works with either of my drives. My BIOS is locked by Lenovo and I can't make too many changes to it.

Does anyone have any knowledge in regards to this? Is it worth trying to unlock the BIOS to see if audio has somehow been disabled?