Windows 10: Unable to Play Sounds

Discus and support Unable to Play Sounds in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Today when I fired up my pc it was showing a red cross on the sound icon on the taskbar when I clicked on it it started Troubleshooter but... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Harshal_Mali, Jan 19, 2019.

  1. Unable to Play Sounds


    Today when I fired up my pc it was showing a red cross on the sound icon on the taskbar when I clicked on it it started Troubleshooter but troubleshooter couldn't help me when I open playback devices it is showing my Speakers and when I clicked test nothing happens I tried many online solutions but nothing worked even my mic is not working

    i tried different speakers
    any help would be appreciated

    :)
     
    Harshal_Mali, Jan 19, 2019
    #1

  2. Unable to play sound in Windows 10

    Hi Larry,

    Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

    Let’s try below steps and check if it helps:


    • Press (Windows + X) and select
      control panel


    • Click on the Sound icon.

    • Under play back devices, right click on an empty area and place a check mark on “Show Disabled Devices” and “Show disconnected Devices.

    • You will now see the disabled audio devices with the arrow pointing down on them.

    • Right click on each listed disabled audio device that you want to enable, click on
      Enable and set it as default.

    • Click OK to close the Sound window.

    • Restart the computer and check the result.
    If the issue persists you can try the below steps and check if it helps:

    Check if any of the sound items in the device manager is disabled. If yes, then enable it. To do this, try these steps.


    • Go to Device manager.

    • Expand Sound, video and game controllers’ item.

    • Right click the sub sound items and click
      enable.

    • Restart the computer and check the result.
    I suggest you to run the hardware and sound troubleshooter
    and check if it helps.


    • Type “Troubleshoot” without quotes in search and click on
      Troubleshooting in the results displayed on the left side of the screen.

    • In the new window, click
      Hardware and Sound
      .

    • In the list of options, click on
      Hardware and Devices.

    • Click Next and follow the on-screen instructions.
    Hope it helps. Please reply to us with the status of the issue.
     
    Anil Madishetty, Jan 19, 2019
    #2
  3. No sound while playing audio and video files.

    Hi,

    I appreciate if you could answer to a few questions to narrow down to the issue.

    • Which is the application that you are using to play the files?
    • Did you try the same on a different player?
    • Did you perform any troubleshooting steps?
    As an initial troubleshooting step, I suggest you to check if the volume is set low or in mute state in Volume Mixer.

    • Right click on sound icon.
    • Open Volume Mixer check for the application that you are playing the files with and increase the volume and check.
    If the issue still persists, I would suggest you to run “Playing audio” troubleshooter to diagnose and fix the issue.

    Follow these Steps to run Playing Audio Troubleshooter in Windows 10.

    1. Type troubleshooting in the search bar.

    2. Select Troubleshooting.

    3. Select View all on the top left corner.

    4. Click on Playing audio.

    Also refer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/fix-sound-problems#v1h=tab01

    Hope the information helps in resolving the issue related to the sound issue. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

    Thank you.
     
    Krishna Prasobh V, Jan 19, 2019
    #3
  4. Unable to Play Sounds

    Unable to play sound from speakers

    Hi Tayla,

    Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Apologize for the inconvenience caused to you.

    I suggest you to uninstall and re-install the sound drivers by following the steps below and check if it helps.

    • Press Windows key + X, select Device Manager from the list.
    • Expand Sound, video and game controllers.
    • Right click on the driver and select uninstall.
    • After uninstalling the driver, restart the system.

    Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to write to us for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.
     
    Eeshwar Kumar, Jan 19, 2019
    #4
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