Reinstall a Sound Device in My Computer
Sound devices in your computer control everything you hear from alerts that the operating system creates to music and video tracks that you hear while you play multimedia files. If your sound device has stopped working for some reason, reinstalling it can help solve your sound issues. If you need to reinstall a sound device in your computer, you can do so with relative ease by using the Device Manager control panel in your computer.
Instructions
1. Click on the "Start" button, open the "Control Panel" and select the "Administrative Tools" option from the Control Panel menu. Inside the Administrative Tools window, open the "Device Manager."
2. In the Device Manager window, select the plus symbol next to the "Sound, video and game controllers" to expand that section. Locate the sound device that you wish to reinstall, right click on it, select the "Uninstall" option and confirm that you wish to uninstall the device. Wait a moment for the device to become uninstalled, and it will disappear from the Device Manager. Close the "Device Manager" window once this occurs and restart your computer.
3. Log back into your computer once it starts up and wait for the computer to automatically detect the sound device. Once this detection occurs, the computer will ask you to provide a driver for the device, or it will ask if you want to let the computer go online to find the driver. If the driver you have is an EXE setup file, cancel the automatic detection window, and install the drive for the sound device via the installation file. If the driver you have is an INF or similar file, provide the automatic detection program with the path to that file, and allow the driver installation process to proceed. Once the driver installation process has finished, the sound device has been successfully reinstalled.
Tags: Device Manager, your computer, sound device, Administrative Tools, automatic detection