Hey everyone,
I'm posting this after hours of looking online to find a solution to my problem and trying and trying again to no avail.
My sound and audio used to work perfectly, but then yesterday, when I tried to talk on Discord, I noticed my Discord stopped detecting my microphone. I then looked on solutions online, which made me find out something quite alarming: my playback and recording devices are completely gone from the "Sound" window (Link 1) (both "Show disabled devices" and "Show disconnected devices" are checked).
Also, my Realtek HD Audio Manager window is completely empty(Link 2).
So, I looked online and found that I should try reinstalling my realtek drivers. I did, and I carefully selected the driver for my specific motherboard, and then something worse happened: My sound was gone. There wasn't even any coming from my pc (no green bar in the sound window). Plus, Spotify didn't want to play songs and I tried opening an mp3 file I have on my pc and it said I hard an error with my sound card....
I continued looking for answers online, and trying little tricks here and there, and then I restarted it today and my sound was somehow back. I have no clue how I fixed that.
And, for some reason, I have LOADS of outputs to choose from now and I don't know why (Link 3).
SPECS:
Windows 8.1 64-bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97x-Gaming 5
Additional info:
- I recently acquired a second monitor which made me connect my main monitor via HDMI to make it work (haven't tried my microphone since this change, so I can't know for sure if that's what's causing the problem)
- I checked in the Device Manager, and everything seems fine. (Link 4)
IMAGES:
Playback devices: https://gyazo.com/de860d39a6e443a78fa4dd946aabed35
(same thing for recording devices)
Realtek Audio HD Manager window: https://gyazo.com/cddf5594771281022d76bd4fa29ef926
All the outputs to choose: https://gyazo.com/30ec2b4d68723b9db9a57822890e50f0
Device manager: https://gyazo.com/e07417c48d1009cedcc806e7483b625f
Thank you for your answers, and if there's any additional information you need, please let me know.
I'm posting this after hours of looking online to find a solution to my problem and trying and trying again to no avail.
My sound and audio used to work perfectly, but then yesterday, when I tried to talk on Discord, I noticed my Discord stopped detecting my microphone. I then looked on solutions online, which made me find out something quite alarming: my playback and recording devices are completely gone from the "Sound" window (Link 1) (both "Show disabled devices" and "Show disconnected devices" are checked).
Also, my Realtek HD Audio Manager window is completely empty(Link 2).
So, I looked online and found that I should try reinstalling my realtek drivers. I did, and I carefully selected the driver for my specific motherboard, and then something worse happened: My sound was gone. There wasn't even any coming from my pc (no green bar in the sound window). Plus, Spotify didn't want to play songs and I tried opening an mp3 file I have on my pc and it said I hard an error with my sound card....
I continued looking for answers online, and trying little tricks here and there, and then I restarted it today and my sound was somehow back. I have no clue how I fixed that.
And, for some reason, I have LOADS of outputs to choose from now and I don't know why (Link 3).
SPECS:
Windows 8.1 64-bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97x-Gaming 5
Additional info:
- I recently acquired a second monitor which made me connect my main monitor via HDMI to make it work (haven't tried my microphone since this change, so I can't know for sure if that's what's causing the problem)
- I checked in the Device Manager, and everything seems fine. (Link 4)
IMAGES:
Playback devices: https://gyazo.com/de860d39a6e443a78fa4dd946aabed35
(same thing for recording devices)
Realtek Audio HD Manager window: https://gyazo.com/cddf5594771281022d76bd4fa29ef926
All the outputs to choose: https://gyazo.com/30ec2b4d68723b9db9a57822890e50f0
Device manager: https://gyazo.com/e07417c48d1009cedcc806e7483b625f
Thank you for your answers, and if there's any additional information you need, please let me know.
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