Hi LTT forum,
I really need some help on my system sound. I tried some simple troubleshooting from mr google but none of it works.
The problem
So i was gaming on my PC last night, no issues whatsoever, but this morning i woke up with no sound coming out from my speakers. I checked the sound settings, output device is set to my speakers and not muted, not on low sound. Then i thought maybe my speaker broke, so i grabbed another speaker i have laying around but nothing changed. Sound only works when I set the output device to my headphones. Could my audio port be spoiled (less than 6 months old Mobo)? There's also power indicator on my speaker when it's turned on. Will it solve my problem if I buy a cheap sound card just for the audio port? I will deeply and genuinely appreciate any advice to fix my no sound issue. Thank you thank you so much.
Things I have tried
- Disabled all other audio output except speaker on device manager
- Plug out and plug in my audio jack
- Tried all other audio port on mobo and front IO of case
- Switched to a different speaker
- installed realtek audio driver (previously not using it, but sound was working). Then uninstalled it since it wasn't working too
- reinstalled my GPU driver (via GeForce experience)
- Checked for windows update (no updates, latest)
Things I haven't tried
- Clean RE-installation of windows 10 OS, i really don't wanna come to this unless ALL else fails. I had very bad experience with re-installation of OS, causing me more problems than it solved.
PC components (if it helps)
- Ryzen 5 3600
- MSI b450 Tomahawk Max
- Samsung 970 Evo 1TB NVME SSD
- Asus 1660 TUF
- 550w Coolermaster MWE gold full modular
- 26666mhz 8gb x 2 Cosair vengence RAM (On the side note, these rams are my oldest component and running XMP causes screen stutters and consistent BSOD, looking to change it sometime soon)
- Speakers (sry i don't have the model numbers, it's a really old Creative speaker with an audio jack and a simple power in cable)
UPDATE AS OF 8th JUNE 2020:
Getting a sound-card solved the problem, for anyone who has the same problem and couldn't solve it.