The error Audio services not responding usually occurs when your audio device is unresponsive to your computer devices or the drivers of the audio device are not updated. As we have already known that there are different audio features and drivers for our systems providing hardware support to it without which the audio system will not run. The system makes sure that they provided the software and hardware components with all the applications that are necessary to run.
In this article let us explore some of these troubleshoot solutions to deal with this problem
1. Restart Audio Services
Restarting the audio services will help if you are uncertain about the reason for what problem occurred with your windows audio service. This could help you if in case the services and the drivers are not properly loaded, This makes them reload again and will help you sort out the issue.
Steps to restart audio services
- Open your Start menu, from there open the Run prompt, press the (Windows + R) keys after you will enter the services.msc command to launch the window services components.
- Select the Windows Audio, and Windows Audio Endpoint Builder, fields.
- Go to the Context menu and Click on restart Windows audio services.
2. Update Audio Drivers
The HD (high-definition) audio CODEC (coding-decoding driver) which is an important audio driver that supports your sound systems on your Windows could have been outdated.
You need to update them to fix the issue as windows always run on the updated drivers and software.
In order to update the drivers
- Open the Device Manager and expand Sound, video, game controllers and click on Update driver.
- Now it Searches for the updated driver software automatically.
Now, you will get the latest audio driver version, such as Realtek HD audio drivers, VIA High Definition Audio, or M-Audio.
You can also select the feature to update automatically with its latest version so that there will no such problem in the future.
3. Check for Sound Settings and Hardware Issues
This is just a preliminary check before you decide on anything to do like removing the present drivers, searching for new drivers, and installing them.
To do this, in your system’s taskbar and open the sound settings and make sure they enable it, and check your speaker's connections and their volume settings.
4. Run the Windows Audio Troubleshooter
If there is a minor glitch that causes the audio problem, then windows audio troubleshooting will be the better option.
Through a troubleshooter, you can scan the system and know the problem that was causing the audio devices not to respond.
Open the start menu and type Audio in the search bar. Click on Find and fix problems with playing sound options.
Another way is to
- Go to its Control Panel Items > Troubleshooting. From the Hardware and Sound section, click on the Troubleshoot audio playback option.
- Where you will enter a dedicated troubleshooting wizard, it will automatically diagnose the issue and solve the issue or will let you know how to fix the problem.
Conclusion:
Audio is the very essential way of communication. Without audio, the information cannot communicate properly and it's common to panic if the computer's audio is not working, this article gives you certain solutions by which you can troubleshoot audio services not responding to errors.
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