r/techsupport • u/_MissBunni • 2h ago

Open | Audio A friend uninstalled the output from my tv monitor and now i cant hear any audio.

I came to my pc and I couldn't hear anything from it just to see all my playback devices showing not plugged in. I've tried to fix it myself watching and taking advice from videos but nothings worked. I checked the audio input and output on device manager and the name for the audio output that would've been there is gone and I'm assuming it's been uninstalled because it just doesn't show up on hidden devices. Anyone have any advice that can help maybe? My monitor is an old tv so and I don't have any speakers I can use to replace the tv speakers either.

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u/korayyalcin 1h ago

If the TV is connected over HDMI, its sound doesn't come from the motherboard audio at all, it comes from the graphics card's HDMI audio driver ("NVIDIA High Definition Audio" or "AMD High Definition Audio Device"). The quickest fix is to reinstall the GPU driver and make sure the HDMI audio component is ticked, with NVIDIA that's under Custom install. Before that, try Device Manager > Action > Scan for hardware changes and check under "Sound, video and game controllers" whether it comes back. Once it's back, right-click the TV in Sound settings and set it as default device.

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u/_MissBunni 1h ago

Thank for the reply! I'll try this out see if that fixes it.