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Realtek Audio Driver Error -0001

Anonymous
Feb 20, 2023, 9:10 PM

I have been having a problem for a long time and tried to solve it without success. I have only just again tried to solve it as people I am on call with have said that my microphone makes very loud static sounds, sometimes meaning they are unable to hear me at all.

When I go into sound settings and microphone, there is no enhancements tab, although when I try and install the latest Realtek audio driver it always comes up with an error code. I have tried doing windows updates and even resetting the PC completely although this still doesn't work. In device manager it says there is no realtek audio driver installed already, only HD audio device and Nvidia HD audio.

Specs:

16gb corsair ddr4 ram

intel i5 10400f

Asrock b450m pro4

Gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb

toshiba 1tb hdd

WD green 240gb m.2 (i think)

Windows 10 64 bit

Any other info needed just let me know.

Advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Devices and drivers

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  1. Anonymous
    Feb 20, 2023, 9:21 PM

    I'd suggest your drivers are messed up or the internal Realtek hardware is messed up.

    You could try the Windows audio troubleshooter if you haven't.

    For Realtek you only need out of the box Windows provided driver for that and it will work fine. That's all I ever use and no issues on any computer.

    So in Windows Update find the other drivers section and see if it has a driver for RealTek there. If you see anything else just leave it alone as Windows will deal with them slowly on its own.

    If there's nothing there then you will have to see if hidden devices in Device Manager shows up anything or attempt further to manually install a driver (you can alright click click and scan for hardware changes and see what happens). If the RealTek hardware can't be found in there (it should be found even without a driver) then it may have a physical issue. Although, you should try power cycling the computer or a BIOS update (and maybe reset) as they could potentially affect it and bring it back.

    There's some other possibilities but I'm less sure if they'd actually do anything here at all and would waste too much time and some are too advanced.

    Addition: I should add that the mic, the internal hardware, the application the mic is used in also can all cause your static issue as well. For the most part, to have better mic quality, an audio interface should be used such as a USB one. It offers better clean sound and separates it from the internal interference of the computer. The audio cleanup that applications use does a fantastic job for free but has various issues more than a paid for audio interface. But, that may be too complex for you as well.

    Hope the best :)

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