Sound work for system sounds and when I mess with sliding windows mixer

Literally everything is dead silent including steam, ie8 and my games. With the updated audio drivers and all the sounds on highest

Hi Michael,

Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Let me ask you;

  1. Did you change to the computer?
  2. What is steam? What is an application or a program?
  3. How you did update the audio drivers?
  4. What is the brand and model of the computer?

Let's try the methods below and check.

Method 1: You can run the troubleshooter from the below mentioned link and check if it can help solve the problem , Open the Audio playback troubleshooting utility

Method 2: I understand that you tried to update the drivers. However, I try to uninstall and reinstall sound card driver.

a. Click Start, type Device Manager in the start search box and press ENTER.
(b) in the Device Manager dialog box, expand of sound, video and game controllers.
c. find the audio device that was included with the computer.
d. right click on the device, and then click Properties.
e. click driver, and then clickUninstall.
f. make sure the boxremove the driver for this deviceis cleared, and then clickOK.
g. in the Device Manager dialog box, click the Actionmenu, and then clickfind the hardware changes.

You receive a message that States that a hardware device is being installed, and then the not installed audio device appears in Device Manager.

h. close the Device Manager dialog box.

Method 3: Check if the problem persists in the clean boot state

Put your system to the clean boot state helps determine if third-party applications or startup items are causing the problem. You must follow the steps in the article mentioned below to perform a clean boot.

How to perform a clean boot in Windows

Note: see 'How do I reset the computer to start normally after a boot minimum troubleshooting' to reset the computer starts normally after troubleshooting.

Method 4: Also, look for error messages in the event viewer. If you find error messages after return the exact error message so that we can help you better. I hope this helps.

Measures to check the application event log:

a. click Start.
(b) in the search box type eventvwr.msc , and then on enter.
c. now, click Application in the event viewer (local).
d. now, looking for event log on the right side of the event viewer window.

You can read the following article:

Open event viewer

What are the information in event logs? (Event Viewer)

Hope this information is useful. Please feel free to answer in the case where you are facing in the future other problems with Windows.

Tags: Windows

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