Windows 10: System Sounds not working?

Hi all - having a strange issue on my Win10 Pro 64-bit desktop. All sound is working fine, EXCEPT the System Sounds (recycle bin delete noise, Windows startup sound, etc). I can watch Youtube, listen to music, do voice chat, etc and all is fine there, but cannot hear any of the system sounds. Using the 'Test' button in the Sound settings makes no noise either, no matter what Sound Theme I set things to.

This all happened after I used the Update Tool from MS's website to upgrade to the latest Creator Update...

I've run an 'sfc /scannow' in the Command Prompt and all checked out OK, so not sure what is up? I have a Realtek on-board card if that helps!

Any suggestions would be appreciated! *Smile

:)

 

System sounds not functioning.

I have a problem whereby my machine does not play system sounds. All the settings which I can find seem to be correct, and the speakers work and will play music etc no problem. Strangely when I did a restart yesterday I happened to have my headphones on
and I did hear the start up sound, but so far I have never heard this through the speakers.

My machine is a HP Elitebook 810 G1 with Windows 10.

 

System sounds not functioning.

Hello,

Thank you for keeping us posted and we appreciate the time and effort you have put in to resolve the issue.

Now, here are the below important links which will help you.

• Set default device This is in order to make all the programs have their audio played through this device.
  
• Turn off Audio Enhancements This ensures that all calls/video call audio will be played through this device (unless otherwise configured).

Hope the above information will be helpful. However, if it does not help, follow the below methods and check if it helps.

Method 1

I suggest you to check if any of the audio settings has been changed.

To quickly identify if it at a user level, the easiest way here is to
check if the same issue occur when logged in through a different user account.



Follow the steps:

• Assuming that you are already logged on to your user account in Windows 10, click the Start button.
• From the Start menu, click your name from the top of the left pane.
• From the displayed options click Sign out.
  
• From the login screen, click to the different user account you want to switch to.

However, if you do not have a separate user account, I suggest you to create another administrator user account by referring to the Microsoft article here: Set
up accounts.

Method 2

If it still does not help, I suggest you to reinstall the drivers for the audio device. This in fact will revert all the changes made and restore the device configuration and settings to its factory settings.

Hope the above information is helpful.

Thank you.

 

Hi, have you checked this?

 

Holy crap...I'm an idiot.

No, I never thought to check the volume mixer as I've never touched it!!! I only ever adjust the volume period with the slider you get when clicking on the sound icon next to the clock, yet when I went into the mixer, ALL the volumes were out of wack! Why would that happen??? 0_o

Thanks for the reminder though...sometimes the simplest solutions are the best....sorry for my stupidity, haha!

 

*Thumbs don't worry, plenty of harder ones round the corner..