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It starts with a red cross by the sound icon on task bar.
On checking playback devices I find all are grayed out and enabled. Regardless, it says no audio device plugged in. (Even though I have headphones plugged in.)
Things I've tried;
1) Running troubleshooter. (says audio peripheral is unplugged.)
2) Updating device drivers.
3) Uninstalling drivers and restarting pc.
4) Manually installing realtek audio drivers. It is enabled in startup applications but I am unable to open the realtek manager's control panel. Double clicking on RAVCpl64 does nothing.
5) Toggling onboard audio in BIOS settings (enable/disable)
6) Restarting windows audio and windows audio endpoint builder services in services. I also tried changing their log on to local system account and checking the box saying allow service to interact with desktop. I also tried changing registry and set NoInteractiveServices to 0
I have exhausted every solution I could find on net.
I dont know what to do now
Akash Garule
Posted 2017-12-13T16:46:40.403
Reputation: 11
When did this first occur? After a Windows update? Driver update? Was this a brand-new system with the issue? – DrMoishe Pippik – 2017-12-13T16:53:09.247
i had assembled a desktop in march. sound was working fine then. recently i had issues and pc would hang and shut down unexpectedly. i had given motherboard in service center (they claim to have changed the registers) and replaced the hard disk followed by clean installation of windows 10.(updates were on. i didnt check before windows updated whether sound was working just after windows installation.) sound hasnt worked since then. – Akash Garule – 2017-12-13T17:30:06.343