Sound worked once then never again - Laptop

The first time and one other time booting Manjaro i’ve had sound fully working. The annoying system beep sound will play when shutting down or restarting. I’m running Majaro 5.8.11-1 (Linux58) also have kernels linux57 and linux54 installed. I’ve tried every setting i could see or think of with pulseaudio and tried uninstalling/reinstalling it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My ALSA info can be found here

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Blacklisting the pcspkr module will prevent udev from loading it at boot and shutdown:

In terminal: echo “blacklist pcspkr” > /etc/modprobe.d/nobeep.conf

got rid of the beep, any ideas on how to fix my sound not working?

Maybe give this link a read:

Alienware 15 has a Creative CA0132 for onboard audio
This has a lot of different controls in ALSA that are not found on other makes of audio codecs

I think these 2 controls in ALSA need to be turned on

Simple mixer control 'HP/Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'HP/Speaker Auto Detect',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]

suggest use these commands to unmute both controls

amixer --card=1 sset 'HP/Speaker' unmute
amixer --card=1 sset 'HP/Speaker Auto Detect' unmute

and if audio is working correctly, save the ALSA settings

sudo alsactl store

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