There are quite a few questions on the forums about what to do when the sound disappeared on their computer, and the humorous members of the forum answer them - buy speakers. It is foolish to deny the advice, there will be no sound without speakers either, but it happens that the problem is buried in the computer.
Today we will look at how to fix this problem.
Training
If the operation was not performed to reinstall Windows OS, nothing was changed in it and no important ones were deleted system files, and your sound just disappeared for no reason, advice - start scanning your computer for viruses using free scanners Kaspersky AVP Tool, Dr.Web CureIt! and the like. The procedure is standard for everyone and we will not focus on it, just install the best free antivirus and thoroughly scan your computer. Very often, viruses damage or delete sound drivers and for this reason it is not possible to reproduce sound on the computer.
After scanning the computer for viruses, go to the "Control Panel" - "Add or Remove Programs" and find the sound driver in the window that appears, in most cases it is Realtec AC97 or C-media, we can safely remove them. If nothing like that was found, then go to "Control Panel" - "System" - "Hardware" - "Device Manager" and find "multimedia audio controller" and remove its driver.
We restart the computer. Do not forget to remove all audio-video codecs from your computer, this can also be done through "Add or Remove Programs" in the control panel.
Installing drivers
Next, we will install drivers for sound. We take the driver disk from our personal computer and install them on it. If you have no idea what kind of driver you need to install from the disk, then this can be done through the "Device Manager" ("Control Panel" - "System" - "Hardware" - "Device Manager") in it we are looking for "multimedia audio controller" click on it with the right mouse button and select "Update driver":
Click "Yes, only this time", and then "Next":
Here we select the item "Install from specified place”And then“ Next ”:
Here, using the "Browse" button, select the disk on which the driver will be searched for and click "Ok" and then "Next." The search for the driver on this disk will begin, and then its installation will begin. After the installation is completed, the hardware update wizard, will inform you that the driver is installed and the hardware is ready to use After installing the drivers, be sure to reboot the system.
Installing codecs
When the reboot occurs, the sound will appear, for testing, you can open the "Sounds and Audio Devices" category in the control panel, turn on the speakers and click on the volume slider.
To complete this procedure, you need to install new audio-video codecs that you can download for free from the site dirfreest.ru
Many users have already learned how to install the Windows operating system on their own. But more often than not normal installation is not enough for stable work all equipment included in your computer or laptop. Problems arise already at the first start. And one of the main problems is the lack of drivers, including for sound devices. There are many ways to correctly and quickly select required drivers, some of which are provided by the Windows operating system itself.
You will need
- administrator account
Instructions
Sound cards in modern computers and laptops, like any other installed "hardware" equipment, without the presence of a special manager in the system softwarecalled a driver will not work. Apparently, absolutely all users know about this. However, sometimes drivers need to be installed independently, updated or reinstalled (for example, if the device does not function). But how do you determine which drivers are needed for your sound card? In principle, on stationary PCs, it is enough to look at the equipment labeling by removing the side cover from system unit... But what if the chip is integrated or access to it is impossible purely for technical reasons, as can be seen in the situation with laptops? Let's try to consider several simple methods, which will help solve this problem.
How to Find Out Which Sound Driver I Need: The Easiest Way
Initially, we will proceed from the fact that it is not possible to see the name of the sound card model. To view all the equipment installed on a computer or laptop in Windows systems, there is a so-called "Device Manager", which can be called, for example, from the computer control section, "Control Panel" or the program launch console with the combination devmgmt.msc.
How to find out which sound driver I need? To do this, it is enough to open the corresponding section with sound, game and video devices, and then first determine the name of the sound card itself (its brand and manufacturer). After that, you can simply visit the website of the manufacturer or developer of the corresponding software and search for the required driver by model name. Usually such software is laid out in the public domain. After that, the driver should be downloaded and installed by yourself. But it is not always possible to use this option, since for soundcards of the built-in (integrated) type, the manufacturer's name in the "Device Manager", as a rule, is not indicated, and the card is shown as a device with audio support high resolution (High Definition Audio).
How to determine which sound driver is needed for an integrated soundcard?
First, let's consider the option of finding a driver for a soundcard on a laptop. In this case, the best solution would be to visit the website of the laptop manufacturer and view complete information on the model of your laptop. The equipment may indicate the marking of the card, and among the software available for download, the necessary, moreover, the latest drivers may also be presented. It only remains to download the required installer, focusing on the type and bitness of the installed operating system, and then run it to install the drivers.
Some manufacturers offer users to test laptops online. In this case, the matter is simplified, since the update or installation of the necessary drivers can be done completely in automatic mode, and you don't have to find out what drivers are needed.
But let's see how to find out which sound driver I need if automatic installation even on the manufacturer's website is not provided. In this case, if we are talking about the driver of the integrated card, you can use DirectX tools (the dialog is called from the Run console of the dxdiag command).
The sound tab on the left will show brief information on the device itself, and on the left - on the driver (most often this is a Microsoft driver file that installs itself operating system). If you need a different driver, follow on.
Finding the software that best matches your device
Now let's see how to understand which sound driver is needed for installation, focusing on its absolute and most complete correspondence to the soundcard model.
In this case, we again need the "Device Manager", in which we need to go to the card properties through the RMB menu, and on the information tab, select the equipment ID display from the drop-down list. The list may contain several lines containing the values \u200b\u200bVEN and DEV, but you need to copy the longest one, and then it is on it to set the search for the required control software on the Internet, using special resources with driver databases or other sites where such software can be uploaded for free download.
Use of automated programs
Finally, let's take a look at how to find out which sound driver I need (and do I need at all) when it comes to using automated programs... They can be conditionally divided into two main classes: applications with their own databases ( DriverPack Solution) and online applets (Driver Booster). Such programs are good because the user does not need to find out what exactly needs to be installed, but just trust the program, which will automatically scan all devices on the computer and install the missing or updated drivers on its own.
Special drivers for working with sound
It remains to add that when using some sequencer software or virtual sound studios, you may sometimes need to install additional drivers.
In particular, this applies to the set of ASIO drivers. If we are talking about using connected MIDI keyboards and synthesizers, it may be necessary to install the corresponding MIDI driver or virtual sound device (usually, when installing the main software, all drivers are integrated into the system automatically, but only after the user checks the box for their installation in the installer itself).
- I have three questions for the site administrator: How to install a sound driver? Second question: Where can I download realtek dispatcher ? Third question: (there is a separate article) on the system unit? All this I had and worked before reinstalling the system. A few days ago Windows 7 had to be reinstalled and now there is no sound, realtek manager is gone and the front soundbar is not working. I can't find the driver CD. You can, of course, call the master, but the prices are expensive, and I study at school, and I want to figure it out myself, because I managed to install the operating system myself. Edik.
Letter No. 2. I have a problem: I reinstalled the operating system and immediately the question arose how to install driver for sound, all other devices were found by the Windows 7 operating system and the drivers were installed automatically, this can be seen in the device manager, but instead of my sound device, it was written Audio device on the High Definition Audio bus and that's it. According to your article, I determined - The device instance code (equipment ID) went to www.devid.info, inserted it into the search field
HDAUDIO \\ FUNC_01 & VEN_10EC & DEV_0883 & SUBSYS_1043829F & REV_1000 and clicked Search, after a few seconds the following result was received:
Realtek High Definition Audio
Vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Operating system: Windows XP, Vista
I decided to call the wizard anyway and he very simply installed a driver for sound from his disk, but the Realtek manager did not appear for me and we could not turn on the front soundbar with it, although it worked before reinstalling the system and I connected it to it headphones. Tell me how to do everything right, you are also a master. Ilya.
How to install a sound driver
Note: Friends, in general there is a rule, immediately after installing the operating system, go to your website motherboard and download all the drivers (sound, network, and so on) from there, we even have a detailed article on this topic. If for some reason you did not succeed, you can download the sound driver directly from the manufacturer's website of the sound card built into your motherboard, in most cases, it will be a Realtek sound card, that is, we read everything written below.
We take a computer with the same Realtek sound card integrated (built-in) into the motherboard in the form of a microcircuit as our reader and the newly installed operating system and Windows 7 without sound drivers (I deliberately did not install the driver on a sound device, we will install together with you).
In the device manager I have an item Sound, video and game devices and under it there is a Device with High Definition Audio support, indicating that the system contains a new generation audio device that supports the HD Audio standard, but there is no sound in the system, since on this device driver is not installed.
Note: On old motherboards, instead of High Definition Audio, there may be AC'97 - an outdated standard audio codec developed by by Intel in 1997 But the sound subsystem built into our motherboard operates according to a newer standard - High Definition Audio or HD Audio. Intel High Definition Audio is a relatively new specification for audio codecs developed by Intel in 2004, featuring improved digital audio quality, more channels, and a higher bandwidth than AC "97.
- We determine the exact name of our sound card and which driver we need exactly.
- We find the driver on the official website of our sound card, download it and install, if it is a realtek sound card driver, together with official driver necessarily realtek manager will be installed (you don't need to download it separately).
- In order for the front soundbar to work, we have to configure realtek dispatcher, it is not difficult and in most cases is sufficient for the front soundbar to function properly. If we fail, we will have to enter the BIOS and set the Front Panel Type parameter - from HD Audio to AC-97 (more details below).
During the existence of the site, question How to install the driver for sound, was asked to me an uncountable number of times, in addition, before writing an article, I specifically observed how a simple user searches for drivers on the Internet and came to the conclusion. People want to find drivers anywhere, but not on the official website of the device manufacturer. Why it happens?
If the case is, for example, with drivers for a video card, then it is relatively simple here, everyone knows about the existence of a Russian-language site, where everything is very simple and understandable and even has its own program, by running which you can easily find out the exact name of your video card and pick it up there required driver... Naturally, on such a site it is not difficult for a simple user to download the required driver, this is undoubtedly a big plus for the creators of this site.
The situation is different with sound drivers, although there are also only a few major manufacturers here and the most important one in my opinion is Realtek, personally I most often have to deal with finding and installing drivers from this particular manufacturer. Indeed, the site www.realtek.com periodically freezes, does not have support for the Russian language, but you can still download drivers from it, personally I have always succeeded.
Of course, first of all you need to know the name of your sound card. To accurately determine the name of almost any device connected to the motherboard, including built-in and discrete sound cards, you can use a simple but nevertheless irreplaceable (for example, in my work) program called AIDA64, or you can use the exact same utility Everest ...
More exotic methods for determining the name of devices and searching for drivers for them by the hardware ID code, using the site pcidatabase.com and www.devid.info, are given in our article How to find a driver by device code (link to the article above), we will not repeat ourselves, if everything that is written below does not help, you can read it.
So we go to the official website of the AIDA64 program, being free in the recent past, it recently became paid, but you don't need to buy it right away. For the first 30 days, the developer gives us the opportunity to use the program without any restrictions. It seems to me that this time is more than enough for us to determine the name of the device we need. If you like the program, then of course you can buy it.
On the official website of our program http://www.aida64.com/ click on the Download button,
You can download the program in the installer or in the archive, let's download it in the archive, click on AIDA64 Extreme Edition Trial version, ZIP package, Download.
Downloaded, now unzip our program into some folder,
go to this folder, then run the aida64.exe file and our program starts
In the main window of the program, click Computer,
then Summary Information
and we see everything that we have installed inside the system unit: the name of the motherboard and its chipset, as well as the name of the processor, video adapter, BIOS type, and so on.
Half of the work is done, we go to the official website of Realtek - www.realtek.com. Many users complain that the Realtek website does not support the Russian language, you can get out of the situation by using google browser Chrome, it can easily translate everything for you.
Click Downloads
and choose High Definition Audio Codecs (Software)
We put a tick on the item I accept to the above and click Next
Why did I choose High Definition Audio Codecs drivers (Software). Because these Realtek sound drivers are universal in their own way. They support all new sound formats and fit almost all Realtek High Definition Audio sound cards and ours too (highlighted in red). These drivers are intended for operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7/8 32-64bit.
- 1. Vista / Windows 7 WHQL support: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC886, ALC887, ALC888, ALC889, ALC892, ALC899, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC670, ALC680 ALC260, ALC2668 ALC270, ALC272, ALC273, ALC275
- 2. Windows support 2000 / XP WHQL: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC886, ALC887, ALC888, ALC889, ALC892, ALC899, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC80670, ALC2LC268 ALC270, ALC272, ALC273, ALC275
If we have one of the 64-bit systems installed - Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, then click on the second Description (description) of the table.
Accordingly, if you have 32-bit Windows 2000, Windows XP / 2003 (32/64 bits) installed, then select the seventh position.
We chose our version of the operating system, for example, we have Windows 7-64-bit installed, now we select the Site from which we will download, you can select any, for example, located in China and click on it with the left mouse once.
Download the driver and run it.
The drivers are being installed into the operating system,
and along with the drivers, the Realtek manager is installed. After restarting the computer, we will have sound in Windows.
In the device manager, we see the version of our driver, it is the latest.
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There are various reasons why you need a personal computer. This is not always done using programs with automatic driver selection.
In addition, what sound driver is needed for your PC, you need to know for reasons of deterioration of sound devices on the computer.
Sound card is not detected by OS
Let's consider the cases when the operating system is not able to independently select the driver for the sound card of a personal computer. During the reinstallation of the system and its further reboot, this is determined by the absence of sound signals.
The reason for creating such a situation may be the installed sound equipment on the personal computer, which: rarely occurs; the release date is older than the installed OS.
In this case, you need to manually install the sound driver. There are several ways to determine the correct sound driver for your PC.
Microsoft Help Identifying Your Sound Driver
The operating system of the computer offers its assistance in determining the correct sound driver. It is necessary to direct the cursor to the folder "My Computer" click right button mouse (RMB), then "Properties", then "Equipment". You can make it easier: the "My Computer" folder, click the RMB, go to the Device Manager section.
A list will open in the device manager, select a sound card (there is no driver, next to it is exclamation mark). Select the line, at the top there is the option "Update driver", then the item "Search for drivers", when everything happens with a positive result, the "Install" window will be offered.
Manual search for a sound driver
When the automatic selection of the sound driver did not work out, you need to try to find it manually, for this we go to any search engine (Google, Yandex). Then in search bar we enter the name of our sound device on the PC and add "+ driver", in the window that opens, select the one we need.
What driver is needed for a personal computer? This is easy to see in the Device Manager tab. It is recommended to download the driver on the official website of the manufacturer of the installed motherboard (when the sound card is built into it). It is also suggested to download a driver from a site specializing in updating this hardware for a PC.
After downloading the driver, go back to the "Device Manager" tab, open "Search for drivers on PC", indicate the location where it was saved, "Install". 
Installing the sound driver program
There are times when it is difficult for a computer user to find a sound driver manually and using the OS, then it is suggested to search for it special program... Currently, there are several programs for these purposes: Driver Checker, Sam Drivers, Device Doctor, and other programs.
To work with the interface of programs of this type, of course, on an intuitive level.
There are different cases in which you need to determine the sound driver for your PC, experts advise:
- Determine the model of the installed sound device on the PC (read on the computer). Maybe the lack of sound due to the non-installed hardware, the prohibition of its use in the BIOS.
- When the sound is integrated on the PC, it is recommended to download the sound driver only from the site of the "motherboard" manufacturer, or in case of a separate installation of the sound card, write off the chip marking from it. Find the required driver through the marking search system.
- It is recommended to use the AIDA 64 program, it will not only show the required sound driver, but also all the installed equipment, you can also determine the marking of the chip.
