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Failed to play test tone
Hi Everyone,
I am after an issue now since months that's affecting my PC: Suddenly, no sound from my Realtek mobo integrated soundcard, and "failed to play test tone" error in sound configuration.
Just discovered this affect also another sound card I just bought.
It does not affect (thanks god!) another audio card installed, but this relying on propietary ASIO driver.
This is telling me it likely depends on Windows mechanics.
I've tried ANY and ALL solutions found on Internet (i.e. operations on control panel, restarting services, disabling FX, register hacks, ...) with no luck and for me reinstalling Win is not a viable option.
I do believe it has to do with file permission set in the system cause some months ago I I stopped an **unsolicited** win10 upgrade started on my machine, rolling it back, and since then I've had any kind of issue with file permissions. Most of them resolved, some other still there (i.e. I had to disable UAC to be able to acces Win in non-safe mode).
Unless you propose me a fresh solution, at this stage I have little hope, and I am more looking for a way to follow the "failed to play test tone" error down to the Windows technology stack to get an hint on the cause.
Thanks in advance.
Marco.