Audio crash, need to reboot

[axel1915]

Hi! From a couple of months I keep having a problem with my pc. Sometimes, when it's turned on and I don't do anything that should make a sound, (listen to music, playing game, watching a movie... ) sometimes my audio crashes and I can no longer hear anything and to fix it I need to restart my pc. The audio does not interrupt when something is making a sound, if the audio crashes it crashes when there is silence. I am think its something wrong with the audio card setting or something like that. Can anyone help me?

 

[clutchc]

Yes, it could be a defective sound chip or sound card. Is it integrated sound or a discrete sound card?

Before giving up on it, try this... run ccleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both. https://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER
If it is registry errors, driver conflicts, or software issues, that may solve it.

If still no joy, try re-installing the sound driver.

 

[IInuyasha74]

clutchc beat me to it. Like he said, it could be hardware s actually failing, but there are some things in software that should be fixed first. I've seen issues like this a lot of times before and the problem was always software, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be hardware.

The only thing I would change from what he said above is I would go ahead and uninstall the audio driver and then run CCleaner. The reason for this is to try and remove any possible conflicts first. If you run CCleaner and it doesn't fix the problem, then you uninstall the driver after you will need to run CCleaner a second time to ensure no conflict files from the old installation. That way when you install the driver it will either for sure fix it or its pretty certain to be hardware.

 

[clutchc]

+1^
Good added point.