My laptop says I have no audio device

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danny - Apr 19, 2008 at 05:41 AM
Anon - Mar 16, 2019 at 06:23 PM

Hi,
I followed other peoples advice on different forums but none of them fixed/matched my problem,
the little speaker icon in the bottom corner says I have no audio device installed.
So I went onto device manager and it says I do, this confused me, I tried disabling and enabling it, did not work.
Now I'm stuck for what to do please help me.

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121234
Dec 3, 2009 at 03:57 PM

Go to start - Control Pannel - Hardware and Sound - Device Manager - Sound, video and game contolers - Your Audio Device - Click on DISABLE and click OK to the warning that appears, Then click on ENABLE to activate it. Hopefuly this will work as it did for me.

lindsay
Apr 17, 2011 at 09:49 PM

yes this works.... this happened to me before and I some how figured it out and forgot how to do I again thank goodness someone else has had this happen....

Genro
Oct 16, 2012 at 04:30 AM

i have a problem in my laptop windows xp... I have no audio device that's why I cant hear any sound in my computer

joy
Jan 30, 2018 at 03:06 AM

thank you so much!!! I am very glad that my audio device is okay now...

Anon
Mar 16, 2019 at 06:23 PM

Wow, its like you didnt even read the question, she already tried that.

Answer 2 / 50

Sultan
Nov 8, 2009 at 08:33 AM

Hey, I use Windows XP and I had exactly same problem on my PC. But I found a solution and it's easy. Just go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services and find Windows Audio. Double click it. Click start and then Ok.
Hope you will find your sound back.

Dunbrook
Oct 18, 2012 at 01:52 PM

THANKS - even 3 years later this solution still works!!

Answer 3 / 50

john
May 28, 2010 at 11:05 AM

what do I do I have tryed everything it says I have no audio output but had it yesterday please help

Answer 4 / 50

Jess
Sep 18, 2008 at 12:36 AM

Hey,

I had the same problem but I actually solved it so maybe this will help for someone else out there!
The speaker icon in the corner said I had no "audio device installed" and I went onto device manager and read the description of solving the problem but it didn't really help... If anything it stressed me out a little more because its so confusing. But I did figure it out another way, SO here it goes:

I went to "start", clicked on "help and support", searched "sound", clicked on 1. "troubleshoot sound problems" then "I can't hear sound from my computer" and then clicked to "open device manager." From there I expanded the "sound, video and game controller" then right clicked on "conexant high def. audio" and then "update driver software." It only took a couple minutes to download the software but shortly after my sound was back!

I didn't experience this problem until I downloaded all of HPs updates so I'm not sure if that had something to do with it but I've never had any probs with this PC before. So ya! Hopefully this will be somewhat helpful cause restarting my computer like 4 times did NOT work... :P Hope this helps!

rinksara
Nov 13, 2009 at 11:04 PM

update ur drivers

Answer 5 / 50

Papa Tom
Sep 19, 2008 at 09:40 AM

In the end, I clicked on START, then RUN. In the RUN box, I typed MSCONFIG.

From the MSCONFIG window, I selected SERVICES and began to scroll through the list. I noticed that WINDOWS AUDIO had somehow been deselected. I checked the box, closed out of MSCONFIG, restarted and, HOLY MOLY!!!!My audio was back!!!!

This may or may not work for you. I have an ASUS eeePC 900 XP and neither ASUS nor Realtek, the manufacturer of the audio driver, could solve the problem. Sometimes ya just gotta roll up your sleeves and do it yourself!

Answer 6 / 50

Anonymous User
Jul 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM

Go to device manager in control panel and find out what kind of sound device(s) you have. If there was a CD that came with your computer, I'd check that for drivers first. Otherwise just Google it and you should be able to find the driver available for download pretty easily.

SSifat
Oct 15, 2008 at 07:56 AM

Hey thanks a lot ur advice really helped

Answer 7 / 50

genti
Nov 19, 2009 at 01:00 PM

Hi,

Here are the steps u need to follow:

1) First install Advanced Sytem Care Free.
2) Reboot ur computer and start with safe mode (right after you reboot before any windows screen appears, keep pressing F8. )
3) After it boots at Safe Mode, go to control panel, add remove programs , look for your sound driver you installed, presumably RealTek drivers. Remove /uninstall it, by just clicking on it.
After it removes it, will prompt to a screen asking to reboot, do not reboot. Say no, for later.
4) Then, go to Advanced System Care Free, which you can find under start, programs, etc...
5) Run it. Spefically run the Windows Maintenance which it's the top circle option that should clear your registry files of audio you uninstall. You may have to run it once or twice until you see no more errors found in registry.
6) Reboot, again make sure you hit F8 to go to Safe Mode.
7) Go back to Advanced System Care Free, run the same thing again. Clear all the errors until no registry errors found.
8) Install the Realtek driver. After install will ask for reboot.
9)Computer is rebooting, do not hit f8, let the windows run normally, you SHOULD hear the sound.

Answer 8 / 50

adam
Jun 15, 2008 at 09:09 PM

My 2005 Toshiba tablet with windows tablet version used to run sound fine until the other day when I was deleting some things I might have deleted the wrong thing? Now I have no sound and under my sounds and audio device properties it says "no audio device" so I can't get into the volume adjustments area. how do I go about fixing this so my audio works again?

Answer 9 / 50

CoolJAdie
Mar 28, 2010 at 08:22 AM

Go to "Start", "Control Panel", Administrative Tools, Computer Management, click on "Device Manager" on the left hand side and look on the right hand side. See if you have a yellow exclamation next to the "Sounds, Video and Game Controllers". If yes, double-click on the line with the exclamation and then click on the driver tab at the top. Click update driver and when it asks if you would like to to check the internet for updated drivers, tell it yes, this time only and continue. After this process, it should either download and install a new driver for your sound card or install the one that was shipped with your computer. If this does not work, please let me know and we will check the next possible problem.

Answer 10 / 50

SnowingAmanda
Jul 13, 2008 at 12:12 PM

Hey, I have Acer Aspire 5670, and I just reinstalled XP on it and it tells me that I have no audio device, in device manager it says audio drivers (legacy) work properly but in properties it shows no devices, I installed Realtek audio drivers, it just does not work. Tried everything, Could please anyone help me with this problem? Also in device manager when I right click on audio drivers I dont have an option to uninstall them. Please help!

ev
Jul 13, 2008 at 09:18 PM

When you find out what to do let me know. I have been having the same problem for the past week.

Answer 11 / 50

AK
Jul 21, 2008 at 04:10 PM

HEY HAVE U FIXED THE PROBLEM? IF SO WHAT DID YOU DO BCOZ MYN AINT WORKIN EITHER?

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rudy2010 Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday April 28, 2010 Status Member Last seen May 5, 2010 1
Apr 28, 2010 at 10:48 PM

Installing MSUAA (Microsoft Audio Architecture) before installing the sound driver might help.

Answer 13 / 50

markoj
Aug 15, 2008 at 04:02 PM

if it says no audio device in sounds and audio devices then you dont have an audio device
try downloading realtek ac or or sigma tel

Answer 14 / 50

lysh
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:48 AM

I recently had to get a new harddrive for my computer and I have no sound.. I have a beep noise when something comes up but that is it.. how do I re install the sound card device thing?? it's a legacy sound card on a acer- travelmate 4060.. any suggestions?? I need my sound to work for uni!

Anonymous User
Jul 30, 2008 at 11:16 PM

see post 53

Confused!!!
Apr 24, 2010 at 07:37 PM

i have the same problem...

Answer 15 / 50

Rudy
Apr 29, 2010 at 06:32 AM

First of all, ensure under the BIOS setting you have enable sound/audio device (for Toshiba PC press F1 to get into bios setting), save and exit (press END).
After rebooting you should see found new hardware that is multimedia audio device, then you can start installing the driver.

Answer 16 / 50

basit
Jul 14, 2008 at 05:22 AM

need to xp sound card driver

Answer 17 / 50

coolman
Jul 27, 2008 at 08:01 PM

It worked for me after I installed a downloaded sound driver on my B130

here's the link:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R147073&SystemID=INS_PNT_E1405&servicetag=&os=WLH&osl=en&deviceid=8907&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=1&catid%20=38;impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=3&fileid=195627

Anonymous User
Jul 30, 2008 at 11:24 PM

Hey, nice work! It's always good to see people actually trying to fix their own problems instead of waiting to be spoonfed the answer. I've used the Dell support site many times to download drivers or tools that I needed.

Answer 18 / 50

Lynn
Jan 5, 2009 at 04:21 PM

HI..I had the same problem...go into device manager and click uninstall your plug and play audio drive...reboot and windows will reinstall your audio.

Answer 19 / 50

kt
Apr 25, 2008 at 09:42 PM

Danny,
I am having the same problem. I have a windows vista laptop, and it says that I have no audio device installed, but when I go to my device mangager it says that I do and that it is working properly. I know how to uninstall the device, but when you say download the same sound card, how do you do that?
Thanks.

danny
May 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM

soz I didn't reply to you I didn't get the email but what I did was unistall my audio device then search it in google to re-install it, soz I can't remember any specifics

AK
Jul 21, 2008 at 04:12 PM

hey did u fix the problem? if so what did you do? bcz iv gt the same problem

Yo
May 1, 2010 at 03:31 AM

disable and enable, it will work

Answer 20 / 50

novic
Jul 13, 2008 at 09:32 PM

hey...i had just recently reinstalled my OS(operating system)...but I didn't know that when you reinstall your OS that you would have to reinstall your sound card.the problem is that I have no idea how to reinstall your OS...what programs should I use....my computer says that I have no divice installed....i say this dude fix the prob with some software....but I had to reinstall my OS again and then my sound was gone again...he doesnt want to tell me how he did it-_-...so I need help with this problem..i really need my sound...what program should I use to reinstall my sound card!!!?:(

lil_kiddie
Jul 18, 2008 at 05:18 PM

i try to play music on wmp but I get an error message saying my speakers are not configured properly
i used to have sound before I rebooted it but now there is no sound at all for when I play games and it is real annoying I have a windows me very old but still good
please help what should I do!?