Sometimes you encounter a problem with the sound on your computer. You try to play a music file or a video file, and to your amazement there is no sound. Sometimes the problem is not only silence but there could be some annoying ringing sound that is irritating. In such a case, you must know how to restore sound on my computer.
All the problems that you encounter relating to your computer, may be because you are the one who messes around your PC and playing with different system files or applications, only to check what can be modified, upgraded, deleted or improved to save system space. This way you yourself are doing more harm than anything good to your system. It is possible that you can delete something important like any system file or a sound driver, accidentally. But the good thing is that it is quite very easy to resolve such mistakes.
Read the following instructions on restoring sound carefully:
- Well, first thing to d before starting to repair the sound driver, is to test the sound carefully first. Sometimes, it may appear that there is no sound from your computer, but it should come and you instantly think that maybe you erased the sound device driver. Either the sound may be on mute, or the application that you are using to view videos or listen to music is on low volume. Possibly you may find out sometimes that speakers are on mute or the cord is not inserted properly into the jack. Chances could be that the program is corrupt and does not support that particular music file and your sound driver is still OK. To make sure that the sound driver is working file, try playing the audio and video file in some other program. If there is no sound, then possibly it is the sound driver that is either corrupt or deleted.
- You must first check whether the sound driver is installed or not. For this go to Settingsàcontrol panelà systemà device manager. Click on Sound, Video and Game Controllers to expand. Sound driver of your system should be listed. If the driver is accidentally deleted, it will display”No sound driver installed”.
- If the sound driver is still installed, then you must check the status of sound driver. On the name of sound driver click with the right mouse button and select properties. It should display “the device driver is working properly”. If nothing like this is displayed or it tells it is working fine and actually it does not, then uninstall the current driver and re-install it.
- Recall when the driver was deleted and restore your system to an earlier date. Search for system restore option on your desktop. Follow the steps as per instructions in each window that opens and a calendar will be displayed with the restore point marked. These are the dates that were marked as restore points. Pick the nearest date to make sure least number of files is lost. Still if sound driver does not work fine, go to second closest date. Repeat the steps till the sound driver is not restored. If all the restore points are checked and sound driver is not restored the final option you have is to install new driver.
- Uninstall existing sound driver from settingsà control panel—systemàdevice manger. Expand Sound, Video and Game Controller” and select uninstall. Lastly download and install new driver according to instructions. You can download the files from the company’s website or find it according to the OS installed. And get your sound driver working.