(My apologies if I have the incorrect forum, newbie here.)

I've just received my laptop back from repairs as the charger pin broke after roughly 3 months of use, for some reason they felt the need to format my hard drive because of course that was completely 'necessary' but that's beside the point. So, fresh start, willing to bite the bullet and go ahead with uninstalling/reinstalling things, right?

Finished with that, then had to install the ATK drivers as my function keys weren't working and I had this problem previously when I first bought the G53SX anyway. No problem, function keys started working again. My sound however, stopped working somewhere around this time, I doubt they are linked however.

Re-installed the sound drivers, sound starts working again; hurrah! Or so one would think. I left the laptop for a bit, it went on sleep or hibernate - I'm not entirely sure what the current settings are for that. Resumed my session, sound drivers stopped working again. Re-installed them again, and yet again - it works! Except the same issue happened shortly after - I go away for a bit, the laptop decides to sleep for a while, I resume the session and whoop! No sound again.

Anyone have any idea what might be causing this issue and what I can do to rectify it? I can keep re-installing the Realtek drivers but I've got a niggling feeling that's not going to solve it in the long-term.