Need fix for lost audio from update to Windows 24H2

Anonymous
2024-12-08T21:16:26+00:00

I updated to Windows 24H2. I have now lost all of my audio. When I hover my mouse over the sound icon in the tray, it shows that "No audio device is installed". How do I fix this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-15T17:20:58+00:00

    Could not agree more, it is just an unacceptable situation for now much more than a month! Just unbelievable

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-19T21:16:43+00:00

    Not2... wrote "Seems to me there's something amiss in Windows land -- my miniPC is running a registered/genuine copy of windows-11, so what's happening makes zero sense to me."

    Same story with me. I agree than something is amiss in Windows

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-19T20:55:40+00:00

    My experience has been that Windows Updates have been changing aspects of the speaker device. I have an

    external device that has audio in/out functionality -- so I renamed the speaker for that device to something else.

    It is NOT the system default -- I defined that as a different device.

    What's been happening is that the default moves from the one I defined as default, to the device that I've

    defined as a communication only device. In addition, the speaker icon gets an X (disabled). My external device

    doesn't function properly when the speaker its disabled, so this requires manually going back to re-enable the

    speaker (I do this right on the taskbar icon).

    The most frustrating aspect is that this started a few months ago, and has persisted through every Windows

    update. I've been unable to determine any type of workaround for this issue, and since the mini-pc is in an offsite location, I don't always catch when the problem occurs firsthand. Someone usually tells me there's an issue and

    I have to connect to the remote station and manually evaluate what's happened.

    Seems to me there's something amiss in Windows land -- my miniPC is running a registered/genuine copy of windows-11, so what's happening makes zero sense to me.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-22T01:53:27+00:00

    I have the same problem with no sound randomly with an external DAC on 24H2 and I have to toggle stereo to mono and back again and it magically works. A pain but quickly doable. Microsoft, please fix this.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-14T17:47:11+00:00

    Hello Jim,

    After updating to Win 11 24H2, neither speaker worked. No sound at all. I keep a series of drive C images and stamped down the one made prior to the upgrade. The speakers worked, as before. Hmmmmmm........ So I reinstalled the 24H2 update again (using Windows Update). It took about 1hr, 20 minutes to complete (a ridiculous period of time in my opinion) but this time my speakers worked fine! (BTW: Device Manager showed my sound drivers were hosed after the first 24H2 update but I couldn't update the drivers on my MiniPC. Couldn't locate them)

    Bill

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