How to reinstall drivers for sound: ways and instructions

It often happens that after the installation of Windows, the sound disappears. This, of course, is associated with many things, but often it's the drivers. The article will talk about how to reinstall the driver for sound in Windows. All possible methods will be considered, and detailed instructions will be attached to each of them.

Driver Definitions

Before taking on the reinstallation of the driver, it is necessary to understand which one we will reinstall. To do this, you can use a variety of utilities and programs. But why download something, if necessary already exists on the computer?

We need to get into the device manager. For this you can go in two ways.

• Click on the "My Computer" icon with the right mouse button and select "Management" in the menu that opens. A window will appear. In it, select the "Device Manager" tab.
• Enter the "Start" menu and enter "Device Manager" in the search box. After that, the system will find the utility we need, and it remains only to press the left mouse button on it.

So, we reached the first goal - entered the device manager. Now you need to know the name of the driver. In view of the fact that we are dismantling how to reinstall the driver for sound, and in the example will be given manipulation with it. Find the tab "Sound, game and video devices" and open the drop-down list. Now you have a whole list of drivers for the sound. Typically, if some are not working properly, a yellow icon will be drawn next to them.

Reinstall with Device Manager

After doing the above, you are in the Device Manager and found the names of the drivers that you need to reinstall. First of all, reinstall the ones next to which the yellow sign is drawn.

To reinstall, you need:

• Click on the driver with the right mouse button and select "Properties" from the menu.
• In the window that appears, go to the "Driver" tab.
• Click the "Delete" button at the bottom of the window.
• In the confirmation window, place the bird next to the line "Remove driver programs for this device" and click "OK".

Now the incorrectly working driver is deleted, and in its place it is necessary to put the serviceable one. To do this, repeat the manipulations until the "Properties" window appears with the "Driver" tab open. In the window, instead of "Delete", you must click the "Update ..." button. You will be asked about where to search for the driver. If you downloaded it in advance to the computer, then select the first item. Otherwise, you will need to perform a search through the Internet.

Now you know how to reinstall the driver for the sound in Device Manager. But this is only the first way out of many, so we move on to the next.

Reinstall with the program

Perhaps, for some reason, guided by the method outlined above, you still could not reinstall the sound driver "Windows 7". But do not be in a hurry to despair, there are still many options. For example, for now, we'll look at how to reinstall the drivers for the "Windows 7" sound, Using for this purpose a program called Driver Booster.

• Go to the official website of the software and download the program. This is completely free, since it is in the public domain.
• Install the program by removing the check marks from the installation of additional software.
• Enter the program.
• Before you should be a large "Start" button. Click it.

After the analysis, you will see the older drivers, click "Update all" and wait for the download and installation, then restart the computer.

Driver search by ID

We already dismantled how to reinstall the drivers for sound using standard Windows utilities and with the help of programs. Now let's talk about how to find the right driver on the web by ID.

• In the Device Manager, enter the properties of the required driver.
• Click the Details tab.
• In the drop-down list, click on "ID Codes"
• Copy any string from the list.
• Go to the DevID website.
• Paste the copied code into the search box.

Now it remains only to download and install the driver.