You wake up in the morning or you come home to play or work in the afternoon, you turn on the PC and realize that Windows can't detect headphones anywhere. What a problem you think because you don't know how to solve it and you don't hear anything at all. For some reason the PC has run out of sound or without detecting the headsets. It has never happened to you and you do not know how to solve it so that Windows "has sound again" and you can use your computer again, whether laptop or desktop, as you have done so far, without problems and with sound.
The worst thing about this failure is that it happens right off the bat, on any given day and for no reason, and Windows doesn't usually give many explanations either. Let's say it is an operating system to give little failures and period, stay so calm. But in any case, unless it is a hardware problem, you will not have more complications to solve it. You will simply have to follow different methods or solutions that we will put you here, in this article. From there everything will be rolled and you will begin to hear the sound of the system like any other day.
Windows does not detect headphones: how to fix it?
This in the end can be for different reasons, and as we always tell you, we are going to drop you a list with different mini tutorials to follow and fix, but it does not mean that one is better than another, it can simply happen that with one it is solved and with another no, it is a matter of testing. In this way we are going to keep the song of what happened, and if it happens again, which may be quite likely to happen in the future, go straight to the solution that previously worked for us.
In any case, the first thing you should always check is that your helmets or headsets work correctly. If it is a peripheral failure, there is little we can do. That is why you will have to connect them to another PC, laptop or whatever you have on hand to try to verify it. If in any case you are totally sure that it is not a fault with the headphones and that it is simply that Windows does not detect the headphones, we proceed with the methods to solve it.
Always use the Windows troubleshooter
Because as its name suggests, sometimes it solves problems efficiently. If Windows still doesn't recognize your headphones, use the system troubleshooter. Microsoft has includedor a series of troubleshooters which will be on the system configuration page and they will be able to help you fix all kinds of problems in a very simple way (so simple that you will have to give next several times and wait).
In order to find it you will have to go tol Settings, update and security menu and then you will find the troubleshooter. Once you have run it, you can choose the audio playback option to see if this internal Windows software is capable of fixing our annoying problem or not.
Try restarting the audio service
Because a reboot in time is better than anything else. It is a saying that you will have read to me on other occasions. It is a very good alternative to restart the system audio service And if you wonder how to do it, you just have to follow these simple steps:
Start by opening a run window, and to do this, press Windows + R without releasing them. Once it is run and the window appears, type exactly services.msc and hit enter or accept. Now you will have to look for the service called Windows Audio and there you will have to click on it with the right button of your mouse to select the option that says "restart". After this, you can check again if Windows already detects the headphones and there is sound again through them.
Check your sound output settings
This is something very common and it is not that it is your fault, it is that I have come to see how it deconfigured itself, or even how it changed peripherals without anyone ordering it, Windows things. Therefore to change and check this sound output configuration you will have to follow the following steps:
In the Windows bar you will see, at the bottom right, that there is an icon of a speaker. You will have to right-click on that icon on the taskbar. Now you can choose the option from the drop-down called open sound settings. Now that we are in the right place, select the output section of the configuration page and there you can verify that your headphones appear, it is the total confirmation of whether Windows detects them or not.
If you see the name of your headphones right there, usually its brand and model, display the list and select them. Now you can also go directly to the sound devices manager option and select the input that corresponds to your headphones. There you will have to check again that they are heard with the test that Windows lets you do, you will see that button in the form of headphones or microphone very easy.
Update Drivers
We advise you as the last and final option that you check if your sound card drivers are up to date. For this you will have to go to the device manager, find the sound card of your pc and right-click on it to select the option to update the driver.
In case you have very localized the manufacturer and you feel like it or this last method does not work for you, you can always go to its official website and download them and then install them. It doesn't change the process much and both can work for you.
We hope this article has been helpful and that you have now managed to fix the problem that Windows does not detect the headphones. If you have any suggestions or comments you can leave it in the comment box that you will find below. See you in the next Mobile Forum article.