Windows 10: My sound went out while music was playing, loud grating sound for 2 seconds ...

magicmagic3______________________________
My issue may overlap Godot's.

My sound went out while music was playing, from a music site. I was out of the room but heard a loud vibrating, grating sound lasting a second or 2. I discovered I had no sound, tried to play from other sources, other sites, youtube, etc. NADA. I then realized my speaker light was off. I tried resetting, tried different usb ports, etc. NADA. I searched , ran microsoft checks which said my drivers are fine, hardware is fine, everything A-OK. but NADA. I did just about all the moves Godot made.prior to posting his problem here..

I purchased a driver reset that was recommended by PC Mag, and rest 15 drivers. I tried different output devece settings. NOTHING. I shopped around for new speakers, confused, but then thought it would make sense to try headphones. NADA.

I think something had done an update just prior to the initial mess-up. Not sure whether it had been Firefox or Windows 10. That was over a month ago.

TODAY! Oddly, a pop-up suddenly said Windows Media Player did not disconnect properly. - I think that was what it said, and when I followed it it said THIS APPLIES TO WINDOWS 7 !!!. I haven't been using Win7 for 3-4 years. Can an update from Windows have confused my sound system? Switched it back to Win 7? FORGIVE MY IGNORANCE!

Where can I go from here? Dell Inspiron desktop 7 year old comp, in use 6 years, orig used Win 7. Lots of unused potential, because I don't download movies. Music on my computer involves my own music
only, essentially, plus use of music sites like youtube, etc. - without much downloading.

Does this make any sense? Your help would be very, very much appreciated. -from magicmagic3

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Sound goes loud itself

Hi Sulthan,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.



As per the description, I understand that you are facing issues with sound while playing music or video, try the below and check if it helps.



Step 1: I suggest you to install all the pending updates though Windows updates.

Steps:

• Connect to the internet.
• Press Windows key and type
  updates.
• Click on Check for updates.
• Under Windows Updates, click on
  Check for updates.
• Try to install the updates.

Step 2: Run Audio troubleshooter.

To find and fix problems with playing audio.

Follow the below steps:

• Type troubleshooting in the search bar on the Taskbar.
• Select Troubleshooting.
• Select View all on the top left corner.
• Click on Playing audio.
• Click “Next” and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the troubleshooting process.

Hope it helps. Kindly update the status of this issue with required information, we will be happy to help you further.

 

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Problem is that I can't change loudness of the Windows notifications. There is "System sounds" volume mixer, but it doesn't change loudness of Windows tray notifications, and every such notify plays a maximal loud sound! It's annoying.

 

Sound and Music

Hi there,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

To have better clarity on the issue, answer the below listed questions and get back to us.

1. What is the name of the game that you are trying to play?
   
2. Do you want to mute the sound of the game while trying to play the music and only want to hear the music and not the game sound?
   

Please reply us back with the required information.