No Audio Output Device Is Installed In Windows 10- FIX October 2018
Windows updates have been a crucial feature to improve, update or fix bugs in Windows PC. however, this does not remain the case always. The recent Windows 10 October updates have been causing havoc for users. With many reporting “No Audio Output Device Is Installed” error showing in their PC while trying to turn on or increase the volume.
You can not even wait for a new update hoping for an automatic fix as it is very crucial if AUDIO is not working on your PC.
While there is no official solution to the problem. I kept looking for the solution online and after trying several solutions. I found one perfectly working. A Reddit user “DaveArnold78” has found a solution to ‘No Audio Output Device Is Installed’ that might work for many.
How to fix No Audio Output Device Is Installed error In Windows 10
Go through the video or simply follow the easy steps provided below-
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Step 1-
In order to fix No Audio Output Drivers Installed error in your Windows 10 PC search for device manager in your windows PC.
Step 2-
Click on system devices
Step 3-
Look for an audio driver that has SST in it. Right click on it and click update driver.
Step 4-
In the next screen, you will be asked for how do you want to search for drivers?
Select the second option stating Browse my computer for driver software and click next.
Step 5-
On the next screen, select let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer.
Step 6-
Select High Definition Audio Controller and click next.
You are all done and this should solve the problem.
UPDATE:
Microsft has acknowledged the audio problems on Windows 10 and has offered a fix
- Type Device Manager in the search box
2. Find and expand Sound, video, and game controllers
3. Look for a Realtek device or a device that has a yellow triangle with an exclamation point
4. Click on the device to select it
5. From the View menu, choose Devices by connection
6. Look at the parent device – this will be called something like “Intel SST Audio Controller” (Intel Smart Sound Technology driver version 09.21.00.3755)
7. Right-click the controller device
8. Choose Properties
9. You should get a dialog like below. Click on the Driver tab as shown.
10. If the driver version is 9.21.0.3755, you have the driver that was sent to you incorrectly.
11.Click Uninstall Device. You will get a popup asking if you want to remove the driver too, as shown.
12. Check the checkbox as shown, so the driver will be removed.
13. Click Uninstall.
14. When the driver is uninstalled, reboot your system.
You are all done now!
This should solve the error, No Audio Output Device Is Installed on your Windows 10 PC.
This method has been found working for several PC manufacturers including different models of HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, Lenovo and others (Tested by our team and the survey were taken from readers)
For readers who have 2 SST Intel audio choices at step 3 can follow MikeJ’s fix as in comments here
Users are advised not to try something that they are not aware of. The Internet is full of solutions to every problem. many of which will not work and moreover may create new problems.
Some of the Users are also facing BSOD problem after the Windows 10 October update here’s how to Fix Blue screen windows 10 WDF_VIOLATION error
Also Read- How to fix Windows 10 taskbar not working?
If you still have any query or any other solution of your own do let us know in the comments below.
Superb! This fix is easy to follow and actually works. Total novice here with no tech expertise. Thank you
You are welcome 🙂 do share and help others.
Thanks
Thanks Abhisek kumar jha…your suggestion worked out…
I’ve searched for so many methods and this one worked thank you
HELLO !ween i go thru step 6 it dosent give me an option to chose “high defenition…
its only shows the “intel sst ”
what should i do ?
thank you very much
I rolled back instead (was already updated it said) and it was instant fix. idk. just point it out.
Thank you so much I was working on this for 2 hrs and finally did it, I use laptop too thanks!
Thanks a lot Abhisek Kumar Jha, I also faced the same audio sound error. Your suggestions worked like magic. Once again thank you so much for the help.
I tried to update my audio driver and it said I already have the most recent driver. Still no sound and micro phone not found
refer to step 4, you don’t need to update it online but look for it in your pc.
try it again step by step and let me know if it works.
it didnt for me
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Same problem. I used the roll back driver option and it worked
I m facing the same problem.
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Thank you! This worked, and took less than a minute. Well done.
‘System devices’ does not have a drop down expand arrow, only a sideways arrow,,, it does not offer additional drop down,
double click on it
Thank you! Thank you!! worked took 1 min. and I am technicly and spelling challenged…. Thank you!!!
Thanks!! Easy fix. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for being on top of this, all the other search results for “no audio output device is installed” were irrelevant. Easiest fix ever, most baffling Windows update bug ever. Especially since I installed the update YESTERDAY and only about 30 minutes ago did Windows suddenly decide that I had no audio device installed.
Worked for me! Excellent! A lot of other methods elsewhere don’t work!
Thank you
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did not work with me, even after going through the comments.
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This Works!!!!!!
Thank you
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There is no “High Definition Audio Controller” available on my Docs. How do I get it?
You don’t have to select it in docs.
Go through step 5 again.
You need to select- let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer.
Try again and let me know if it worked 🙂
Thanks
It Works! Thank you very much I really appreciate it.
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Thanks!! I had tried a few other approaches for the “No Audio Output Device Is Installed” message and they did not work. This procedure worked exactly as shown on my October release for Windows 10 PC…I had no audio problems until the October release was installed on my PC.
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Why Windows always allow this update? I spent 2hrs resolving this and this post fixed my issue
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YUP None of this worked. I’ve literally tried everything short of throwing the computer out the window. It had audio one minute, and then the next it just stopped. Now I can’t get it back through any method, drivers in computer, online, through Driver Easy, NOTHING works. Im pretty damn pissed off about it too.
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Someone please help me. In step 6 there is no “High Definition Audio Controller” option for me. What do I do?
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Oh wait nvm I got it. Thank you. You are a lifesaver
Yes! This also worked for me.
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‘The best drivers for your advice are already installed’ this is the message I have after step 5…………so I cannot fix the problem. Any ideas?
You need to correctly follow step 4. You will have to select the option 2 in step 4. which is browse my computer for driver software.
Try it again and let us know.
Thanks
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I believe many others are the same as I am and once again thank you very much!
This sort of thing should be selective, having updates just remove an existing piece of software is diabolical, bit like ford changing the way your doors work after youve bought your car!
Glad I could help and thanks for the credit OP!
Thank you Dave 🙂
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Omg when I started my Omen Laptop (it updated windows night before) I was like wtf where is my audio went to youtube found your comment and cant thank you enough I saw a lot of people have this problem that the audio wasn’t installed. Again I wouldn’t have sound rn if it weren’t for you
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I have 2 SST Intel audio choices, 1 I can update, the other, that has OED in the description comes back with The device cannot start (code 10)… Under properties it says if failed its initialization call…Help please!!
One of it should have the option to roll back driver. try doing it. right click Properties-> select “driver” and then click “roll back driver”.
Let me know if it works.
Thanks
Unfortunately, rollback driver is greyed out…
found a fix, on update driver, instead of picking SST OEM driver, I selected High Definition Audio Controller and I have sound again. Thanks !!
Thanks for letting us know MikeJ 🙂
Thanks for the help. Piece of cake to follow your instructions.
THANK YOU MAN BEST SOLUTION
Thank you very much.
There’s no “High Definition” option when I click “Let me Choose”, Just Intel(R) Smart Sound Tech
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Thank you. After 2 1/2 hours of trying to figure this out these instructions took about a minute and fixed the problem.
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When the driver finished installing I got a pop-up that said “Windows found drivers for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install them.”
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Worked great, thanks for the help. Very easy to do
Thank you so much. You would think that MS would be able to get a solution out after 2 days of causing havoc…. Not so much. Nothing else that made sense worked. Your solution worked!
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Please help here, i cant find the STT file on system devices, is there something i can do?
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device cannot start, code 10 this is maddening!
see if this comment helps – http://159.89.236.238/2018/10/no-audio-output-device-is-installed.html#comment-342873
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Thank ypu friend…this fix worked for me….i was thinking to perform a recovery on my system since nothing else worked so far….but this trick did it…thanx again….
For which of the following do I apply these steps:
Intel (R) SmartSound Technology (Inter(R) SST) Audio Controller
OR
Intel (R) SmartSound Technology (Inter(R) SST) (OED)- This one has an exclamation mark inside of a yellow triangle beside it
Thank you!
see if this comment helps – http://159.89.236.238/2018/10/no-audio-output-device-is-installed.html#comment-342873
Thank you so Much Dear. Its really works
Nevermind my previous comment. I choose the one ending in (Audio Controller) and it worked!
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Thanks for the clear, simple instructions. It worked perfectly on my ASUS laptop. I don’t know whether my laptop has received the infamous October 2018 update, but something bad happened to cause the audio to suddenly stop working.
Thanks!! Easy fix. Thank you for sharing.
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I tried it and still having the issue- No Audio Output is installed error.
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It did not work – it says I already have a driver installed and still not working
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I’ve followed it all the way down to step 5, but apparently I don’t have the ”High definition audio controller”. Has anyone else ran into this problem, and is there any way to fix it?
Same here. Still not working for me.
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It worked! Thank you so much!
I don’t have a SST audio thing. Any SST …
I’ve tried everything….I’m getting desperate here lol
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Thank you soooo much! I am not tech savvy and this worked like a charm.
i don’t have the intel smart sound technology SST audio controller driver
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works just in time to listen to the last part of your video
I have a new HP Slimline Desktop 270-p013wb. I have no sound. I hover over the sound icon with red x and the message is: “No speakers or headphones are plugged in”. Does this mean that the computer does NOT have a built-in speaker? The HP virtual assistant says that these days many new desktops do NOT come equipped with a speaker. I was on the phone today with HP support for 3 hours and was told over and over that the sound should work once the driver problem(s) is corrected. Whatever they did was not successful. It seems to me I cannot have sound unless I have external device such as speaker or headphone attached. I am a novice. WHAT AM I MISSING!!!!
BTW: This solution did not work for me. Can someone tell me what the heck is going on!!
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You are amazing!!! Yesterday I was in struggle, could not fix and just now I found this article and fixed less than 5 min! Thank you so much for putting step by step guide with screen image, it was really easy to follow! I admire you! (My family was like “Wow! Did you fixed it? How!!??” Lol
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I’m desperately figured out how to fix this issue for the last 3 days, and found this article. I jumped to the last part, just directly proceed to your windows update, let it automatically download the latest updates from microsoft and you’re good to go.
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This is a great fix, but my computer doesn’t even show that there is a driver installed on my Asus. So I downloaded the driver from Asus and did the install, but a driver still does not appear in my device manager. Someone help, please!!
Thank you soooo much Sir…………………It really worked…Simple and efficient steps.
I tried to follow step 6 but I do not have “Intel SST Audio Controller” listed, what should I do? I have a HP Pavilion x360.
Didn’t work for my Windows 8.1 having the same. My laptop is Dell
Happened to me too. Tried many ways. Helped uninstalling driver then instaling “NVIDIA Virrtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM). It doesn’t worked either.
Then choosed a system drivers to install Realtek(R) Audio fixed issue, but scared me for a while when blue screen appeared saying that changes must be reversed as it case system to stop working. After restart sound is back!
i can find the “Intel SST Audio Controller” in my device manager. 🙁
hi abhishek i dont see the intel smart sound on the system device…
hay bro there is no such SST option in my system.. so what i suppose to do
Just download the “Chipset driver” from your manufacturer, install and restart your PC. It works like a charm :)?