How To Restore Sound To My Computer

Audio issues are one of the most common issues that may appear on Windows 10 PCs, and there may be times when just tweeting the volume button up and down may not be very helpful. This is the time you can think of how to recover sound on your computer.

Volume buttons may not be very helpful to you, but a few settings will tweet here and there. Now, again, you may ask what settings can I tweet to recover the sound on my computer? Let's start with a very positive frame of mind and say, "I can."

There are five ways I can restore audio to my computer

1. Check plugs, cables, jacks, speakers, volume and headphone connections
Check that not all cords and cables for speakers and headphones are loose and plugged in properly
Check that you have inserted the correct jack in the correct word. If you are unaware of which jack goes to which cord, contact your hardware manufacturer
Check that the volume is muted and turn on all volume controls.
2. Update / uninstall and reinstall your audio driver
You've thoroughly checked your cords, cables, and jacks and even consulted with your hardware manufacturer and found that there are no problems with them. And, now you're wondering why I can't recover the word on my computer?

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Maybe the culprit is your sound or audio driver. It could be that you are running an old audio driver that does not comply with your PC's configuration, or that your existing driver has a problem that you need to uninstall and reinstall.

This can take a considerable amount of your effort and time when manually tackling the problem. So, cut the hard work and install a utility that can automatically download any audio driver that is compatible with your computer, install it and even update your sound driver if necessary. However, we will also discuss the old-fashioned way of dealing with the issue.

One of the best drivers that can help you update audio drivers is the Advanced Driver Updater. It consists of thousands of drivers in its database and supports a large number of devices.

You should install Advanced Driver Updater to recover audio on your Windows 10 PC -

Install the lost driver
It installs missing drivers and fixes any audio errors by correcting missing frequencies and channel losses.

Update audio driver
Helps you update audio drivers so you can enjoy high definition audio games

No audio log
It even fixes audio and video lags.

Backup and restore
Advanced Driver Updater helps you back up drivers to avoid any compatibility issues and lets you restore the last working driver

Install Advanced Driver Updater Now

Now, let's take a look at the manual ways to reinstall audio drivers in Windows 10 -

Audio driver

Step 1 Diagnose the problem

Right-click the Windows icon and select Device Manager
Click Word, Video and Game Moderators
As you can see, the audio driver on this PC is Concentrate SmartAudio HD; You may be different. If you see a yellow sign with the exclamation mark against the audio driver, you may encounter audio problems.

Step 2 Reinstall the driver

Let us say that the Consonant SmartAudio HD driver is faulty and I want to reinstall the audio on my computer by reinstalling this driver. Here are the steps I need to follow to reinstall this driver -

Press the window key + R which will open the Run dialogue box
Type devmgmt.msc in the search bar, press Enter or click OK
Now, click the Sound, Video and Game Moderators dropdown
Right-click on SonakCent SmartAudio HD (or your audio driver)
Click on the disabled driver
Delete the driver software for this device checkbox and click OK
Restart your PC
Open Device Manager again by following the steps outlined above
Right-click the audio driver again and click Scan to change the hardware
Note: If your system fails to locate the missing driver and is unable to install it automatically, you can check the official Connect website and download the audio driver depending on whether you have a 32 or 64 bit PC.

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3. Run Windows 10 Troubleshooter

If you can't figure out what's bothering with audio on your PC, Windows 10 will fix it for you. Once you hire a troubleshooter in Windows, it will scan and fix the system for potential problems.

Audio playing

Now there are multiple ways to open Windows 10 Troubleshooter; You can either press the Windows key and type in the search bar to find and fix problems with word play. Next hit and the system will start detecting if there is a problem.

You can even choose the path - Start> Settings (Cog Icon)> System> Sound> Troubleshooting. This way, the troubleshooter will scan for audio devices and then you can troubleshoot the device by creating problems.

4. Check if your sound settings are appropriate

Here you will mainly check if your audio devices are disabled or muted. Follow the steps below to test it -

Right-click on your speaker icon and select Open Volume Mixer
Make sure no volume controls are muted for any of your devices. If they are, you will see a red circle with a diagonal line against them
You can also check if you have mistakenly muted or disabled your devices by following the path below -
Start> Settings> System> Sound

Now, select the device properties of both output and input audio devices
See if you accidentally checked the disabled box. If you have it, check it out

5. Reset or restore your PC

Method
PC reset should be your last resort as you may have to leave important data when you want to reboot your PC. You should back up all your settings and data so that you can restore previously saved data even if something goes wrong.

Which is when you can choose to create recovery points.

Open the control panel
Type recovery in the search box
Select Open System Recovery
Select Next to recover system files and settings
Now, select the recovery points from the list of given results.
Note: You may need to configure system security. To do this, go to Control Panel and select Recovery> Configure System Recovery> Configure and select the System Protection option. If the radio does not check the button against turning on system protection

At the end

Despite my laptop is full of volume, I couldn’t hear anything when I was watching the movie, it’s really frustrating for me. To recover the sound on my computer, I thought about all the above options. Although I personally checked the audio jack and audio settings of my device, one fix that worked for me was updating my audio driver.

So, if you are in a similar situation and have tried and tested solutions like the ones mentioned above, please share with us in the comments section which one worked best for you. You can find more content on this type of problem and much more on the Sistewake blogs. You can also find it on all our social media platforms and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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