Low sound, then no sound

[Husse]

Welcome to Mint appleblossombeck
You can't expect us to help you based on this post
Please tell us which fix you used and what hardware you have
You can run lspci in a terminal and post the result here (preferably using the Code option)

[Husse]

This is ICH7 - pitty
There are solutions for ICH8, but they may work for ICH7
There is a topic titled something like
A solution for sound with ICH8 on a laptop
If you find it there is at least one possible solution
I'm sorry but I'm running out of time and it was not were I expected it to be

[Husse]

I'll get back to you tomorrow or at least in the weekend

[Husse]

All these are to be added to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
Found it I think - I knew it but I have to check the spelling

options snd-hda-intel model=acer

Instead of acer you put what you have - very similar to what you tried
There is also this one
http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=10607
There I added index=0 to the above line
This is another

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options snd-hda-intel model=auto

At least you have something to try