Audio Crash in Windows 7

[pablobiernik]

The problem I am having these days, is that suddenly, the sound breaks, stops working, and I have to reboot the pc.
In previous versions, this was wrong, therefore, breaks and restarted the Windows Audio service, without having to reboot the PC.
Now, yes or yes, I have to reboot. And it's a very annoying problem that happens increasingly often.
I have Windows 7 64bit RTM and Realtek HD.
I have the latest drivers installed.

Please, heelp

 

[torrentg]

You may be able to temporarily fix the issue by disabling and then enabling the device in device manager.

Here's questions for you: If your computer is completely idle with the exception of playing an audio file in an app, does it still do this? What about if you play an mp3 or cd-audio file from a physical cd?

 

[pablobiernik]

You may be able to temporarily fix the issue by disabling and then enabling the device in device manager.

Here's questions for you: If your computer is completely idle with the exception of playing an audio file in an app, does it still do this? What about if you play an mp3 or cd-audio file from a physical cd?

Happens to me when listening to music (mp3), or play a game or watch a movie.
So I have to disable the device and re-enable sound to be temporarily solved the problem?

 

[rprabu1984]

Try this simple step

I'm also facing the same problem, but found temporary solution. Type "services.msc" in Run prompt. Restart the "Windows audio" service once. thats it

 

[torrentg]

The reason I asked about if it happens from a physical cd is because audio doing this can have many causes. It is very possible that changing your SATA driver to a different version may either completely fix the issue or help. I suppose I was assuming that you would have an EIDE DVD drive but perhaps not.

 

[Ollaz]

I'm sorry for bumping this thread, got here via google.

I had the exact same problem (i'm still having it) and i have no clue what to do. Restarting Windows Audio service does not work, since the device is "not responding" when i try to restart it. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. So far i have tried different BIOSes, didn't work. Only 1 type of audio drivers available, so they can't be switched.

 

[torrentg]

Disable any throttling for the cpu that may be going on from a bios setting or Windows app that loads at startup, to test.

 

[rprabu1984]

After updating Windows 7 (x64) fixes, i got the same problem. Even restarting, windows audio service is not working.......
the problem got rectified after removing Google talk, Skype and Media Player Classic from the system

 

[Dean24]

Rprabu1984..can you provide the link where i can download the fixes that can solve this problem? thanks...

 

[Ollaz]

Dean24, i think what he is trying to say is that his sound also started crashing after update. He got it removed by uninstallin the applications mentioned in his post.mine is not fixed yet. i removed WMP Classic completely and will try tomorrow. It's been more stable tho, doesn't crash that much after removing K-Lite MEGA pack and installing the usual pack.

Still no dice after removing media player classic.. i'm writing to microsoft and ASUS right now i guess..

 

[Dean24]

oooo..i see i see... ollaz thanks for the explanation...i just got confused ....

 

[Ollaz]

Ok guys, i finally found out what was causing my crash. It was the SRS Audio Sandbox, which improves bass and gives me great sound on high details. I disabled it, and listened to music 12 hours straight (well, i was afk) and when i looked at it this morning, it wasn't crashed. So this problem is application related, i'm guessing and not drivers/windows.

 

[rprabu1984]

My Observation

As per the details in the thread, the conclusion is.... Audio crash is not caused by drivers or OS. the problem is with 3rd party applications we are instaling, which tries to access audio drivers and results in audio crash......

 

[pablobiernik]

Help!!
I have this problem but no solution for me.
I have installed SRS Audio Sandbox. The solution are disable the program? Uninstall?
Before, there had it installed and the problem was present.

 

[Ollaz]

Hmm, it even crashed with SRS off, but i think it's because i ran it by accident for a minute and turning it off then didn't work. So far i have uninstalled Avira AV, to see if that changes anything. It's really an annoying problem.

/edit: http://forums.mydigitallife.info/showthread.php?p=199445#post199445

The problem has many cause factors, but I do have office 2007 with updates installed.. removing them now to see if this is the case.
/edit2: Under a new OS it doesn't do that.. do not install updates for microsoft office, it might happen to you

 

[Dean24]

Ollaz... i also have the same software and same audio crash problem too..!!!OOOO!!! MAN!! not the SRS AUDIO SANDBOX software T___T ...i can't live without SRS audio sandbox...

 

[Ollaz]

Dean, it was office related (also for me) and not SRS. I'm reinstalling Windows 7 sometimes near christmas when i have time and then i'll get back to you.

 

[pablobiernik]

Heyy
One solution for we??
The problem continues!! Pleasee, i need solution for Audio Crash!!!

 

[Ollaz]

My solution was stop using foobar2000 and doing a clean install WITHOUT office UPDATES, but i still have office. Now that i stopped using Foobar and SRS Audio Sandbox, i'm not crashing any more.

 

[Dean24]

Hey..Ollaz thanks for the info, are you going to try to install SRS audio sandbox?