Windows 10: Realtek Audio No Longer Showing

I got home from work today and woke my computer up. I started to watch Netflix and my sound randomly bugged out. I restarted my computer and, when it started back up, my speakers were no longer listed on my playback devices. I normally switch between my speakers and a headset depending on what I am doing, but now my only option is to use my headset. I went to check Device Manager and the Realtek Audio drivers that my speakers use are now greyed out. I've tried unistalling and redownloading the drivers but it does not seem to help.


I don't know if this is relevant but I was thinking that maybe I needed to update windows, but I have an error that says:


"We're having trouble restarting to finish the install. Try again in a little while. If you keep seeing this, try searching the web or contacting support for help. This error code might help: (0x80070032)"


But i've had this for a little while and my speakers worked fine.



Also, I installed a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM yesterday. Again, not sure if relevant but those are the only changes I have made to my computer in a long time.

:)

 

No audio device is installed (How to fix?)


Since you uninstalled the Intel Display audio and you no longer have audio, that suggests you are using HDMI (??) If this is the case then the Realtek is not being used and not causing your problem.

First step as mentioned is to reinstall the Intel Display Audio.

 

The Ultimate Realtek HD Audio Driver Mod for Windows 10

I had the realtek error when using the installer, so I did these step and It Worked

1.Go Open up device manager
2. Go under sound,video, and game controllers
3. Find Realtek High Definition Audio
4. Right click and hit update driver
5. Browse my computer for driver software
6. Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer
7. Click Have Disk and hit browse
8. Click on the Realtek HD Audio mod folder and look for win64
9. Click on the HDXRT4 and click ok,
10. Click Next and Yes
After it is done, restart the PC

You should be good then and also make sure before doing these steps that you have driver enforcement disabled.

 

Realtek audio broken with update, Also microsoft chat is broken

My audio is ruined with this last update, i've done every step and recommended action listed by microsoft and every suggestion on the first 20 pages of google search. Realtek is no longer showing up anywhere, like microsoft disabled it, microsoft chat is
also broken, requesting to speak with a human brings you to a couple options, all of which are broken and clicking on "chat" closes the window and nothing happens, this is absolutely disgusting, i've spent the last 4 hours trying to get my tablet, my audio,
and microsoft support to work.

way to treat your customers....................

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