High Definition Audio Driver Code 10

[Heidi Hall]

Whenopening the properties of the audio device, many users find the High Definition Audio controller code 10 error. After analyzing extensive user reports and posts, we found that the error is often related to the corrupted or incompatible sound card driver. In addition, some other factors like disabled Windows Audio service, faulty devices, and corrupt registry keys are responsible for the error code.

As mentioned above, the corrupted or outdated sound card driver can trigger the Realtek High Definition Audio code 10. Here you can fix the issue by updating, rolling back, or uninstalling the sound card driver.

Step 4. After a while, tick the checkbox for Show compatible hardware and select a correct driver version from the list and click on Next. Then wait for the update to complete.

Once done, restart your computer and check if the device cannot start code 10 Realtek High Definition Audio error gets solved. If not, you can select Uninstall device in Step 2 and follow on-screen prompts to complete it, and then Windows will install a default sound driver automatically next time you restart.

Microsoft Windows provides users with various troubleshooters to repair issues. The Playing Audio troubleshooter can be used to detect and fix issues related to the audio device. To do so, follow the steps below:

If there are corrupted registry entry keys related to the sound driver, you may encounter the High Definition Audio controller code 10 error. In this case, you can follow the steps below to remove the corrupt entry keys.

The High Definition Audio Device cannot start (Code 10) issue may occur if the Windows Audio service is not started. Therefore, if you come across this issue, the first method you can try is to check whether the Windows Audio service is started or not. Do like this:

According to some users who went through the High Definition Audio Device cannot start (Code 10) issue, uninstalling the audio device like High Definition Audio Device plays an important role in resolving the issue. To uninstall the audio device on your computer, you can take the steps below.

Step 3. Right click on the audio device under it (for example, the Realtek High Definition Audio) and select Uninstalldevice from the pop-up menu to uninstall the device.

Outdated audio driver may also lead to the High Definition Audio Device cannot start (Code 10) issue. In this case, you can get rid of the issue by updating the audio driver. These posts are for your reference:

Step 1. Launch Driver Talent and click the Scan button to perform a full scan on your computer. Then all the iffy drivers on your computer will be listed, including your outdated audio driver.

Performing a Windows update can avoid this Windows error because it will update the operating system with the latest security patches. Microsoft often brings users updates to make the most of its operating system by fixing bugs and improving performance. Also, if your system has been updated but has not been implemented, the result of the older version may be error code 10. This is how you can check and update.

The High Definition Audio Device cannot start issue should be gone after you try the methods above. If you know other methods to get rid of this issue, welcome to share them with us in the comment section below. To learn more solutions to other audio issues, you can get to the Sound Issue section on this site.

So I have a MacBook Pro 13 inch Mid 2012 and all of my drivers work, except for the audio driver. No sound is coming out of the computer or my headphones when I plug them into the computer. I tried everything! I tried uninstalling the driver, reinstalling it, restarting my computer, and even installing a Realtek driver. I believe it's error code 10. I need help getting my audio driver to work!

Oh yeah I forgot about that. I already found another solution. I used EaseUS Partition Master to convert it from GPT to MBR. The sound and microphone now work and I successfully converted it from UEFI to Legacy without erasing any data. Thank you so much for the help you have given me!

W10 is not supported on 2011 Macs, which implies that first W7/W8.1 must be installed, then you can run an upgrade to W10. This also allows the W7/W8.1 drivers to be grandfathered allowing Apple hardware to work properly.

I have a mid 2012 macbook pro with the same audio problem. I spent a few weeks researching and possibly 10-15 installs and full formats before I came up with this installation method and I now have a dual boot system with audio in windows and no issues. I have never replied to these types of forums but this was so frustrating to work out I thought I would try to help others too.

1. Create a USB Installation disk manually as bootcamp fails to create it correctly (just google 'manual Windows USB creation'. Use boot camp to download the macbook drives and bootcamp app for windows. Copy the downloaded folder to the Windows 10 Installer USB. Do not use this USB to setup windows as it will auto load with EFI installation, this will result in failed audio. The USB is needed after installation as the bootcamp app checks for windows files in its directory before loading.

4. You will be asked to enter your password again for bootcamp to change startup disk. You do not need to enter this. The only thing bootcamp was needed for was to create the partition which it will have already done after entering the first password.

9. After everything has setup plug your windows 10 installer USB back into the computer and open the Bootcamp folder then click setup. This will installer all the drivers and the bootcamp app which can be found in the lower right corner of the taskbar

10. Open the bootcamp app and you can setup right click mouse button on trackpad. You can not restart into mac OS from this app. Apparently this option was only designed to work with the apple old HSF+ files system but the new OS are in APFS file system. This does not matter really as you can just use the option key at startup to change OS.

11. By default ater this installation every time you turn your mac on it will boot windows. To changed this hold the option key at starup. Select your desired Drive to start but click it holding the Crtl key. This will change the default startup disk.

Ok so used a USB 2.0 to reinstall Windows 10 and it was successful. It installed as legacy and everything works including the sound and my Mac partition is still intact. Thank you so much for your help.

I was using your program to try install new drivers for the high definition audio controller. After installing and rebooting, the error code was still present so I looked around and found the fixing tool in driver booster. I ran it and while it said it fixed it, nothing actually append.

I reset windows as well as performing a clean install but no luck. My audio works through the TV speakers(connected via HDMI) works, but when I plug in the headphones, nothing happens. The headphones do not show up anywhere. I have also tried the headphone jacks at the back of my PC as well but nothing happens when I plug them in there as well.

If it cannot help, please download >> double click to run this tool on the problem PC>> click 'Save report to Desktop' >> find db_info_YYYYMMDD.zip on your desktop >> send us the zip file to us via email address dbfee...@iobit.com. We will see if we can help further then.

I just had to change my motherboard, as the old one developed a fault.

It was a Supermicro X7DAL-E server board.

I was very lucky to find someone selling two of them which turned out to be unused, but they are X7DAL-E+ boards.

The only major difference between the X7DAL-E and the X7DAL-E+ is that the former has a Realtek AC'97 onboard sound system, and the latter has a Realtek ALC883 HD onboard sound system.

I've got one of the new boards up and running fine, and I found audio drivers for Windows 10 and Windows XP, but I'm having trouble finding a driver for Windows 98SE.

There are many listed online which claim to work on Windows 98, but they don't, the installer just says it's not compatible with the OS.

Is there any answer or workaround for this? I only want basic sound on Windows 98, nothing fancy.

BTW I have absolutely no idea why Supermicro thought that is was necessary to put a 5.1 HD audio system on a server board!

Thanks, Dave.

Surround sound comes for free with HD audio specification. The latter is universally supported across modern operating systems, so it just works out-of-the-box without having to install a special driver.

There are many listed online which claim to work on Windows 98, but they don't, the installer just says it's not compatible with the OS.

Is there any answer or workaround for this? I only want basic sound on Windows 98, nothing fancy.

HDA uses an initial "BUS" driver that loads the HDA Bus and enumerates the actual HDAUDIO device. rloew did manage to get the 2K HDA Bus driver to load and enumerate the audio device with WDMEX, but the drivers for the actual audio device itself always fail, despite not having any missing WDM functions. A very annoying mess.

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