The computer’s audio mixer could not be initialized? Are you going to play some games or watch some movies on the PC but find it have no sound at all? That will make you crazy when cannot hear sound from your machine. Don’t worry! Let’s learn together how to get back PC sound immediately in this post.
When suddenly receive a message “The computer’s audio mixer could not be initialized”, go to Control Panel–>sounds, speech, and audio devices then click Sounds and Audio Devices; then open the Audio tab in the dropdown menu: sound playback use Modem0# Line Playback as default device then below in dropdown sound recording also select Modem0# Line as default device, and then click Apply, Ok then Close. If you still cannot hear sound, read on and you will get some other advices.
The next step you should do when trying to get back PC sound is to install all drivers required to run the audio-based hardware. We know that drivers on the computer are small software applications to establish the communication between the system and the various hardware components inside your computer. If the Windows cannot connect to its required driver, you will fail to hear a sound. So, you should perform these steps to resolve any driver errors / inconsistencies and get rid of the annoying error message “The computer’s audio mixer could not be initialized”:
*Double click “My Computer”, right-click it to select “Properties”
*When the windows appears, click on “Device Manager”
*Then, a list of the installed hardware on your PC will show
*Select the one with a yellow question mark by its name
* Right-click the listing, and select “Properties”
*Select “Update Driver”
*Restart Your PC
Finally, you should make sure that all entries of the registry for your computer sound card are always clean and compact. As you add the sound card on the computer, it will automatically install some entries into the registry to tell the system how to perform the program properly. However, as you install/uninstall programs, add/remove files, the registry will be messed up due to invalid or broken entries. Such entries will stop the computer and the card to produce sound smoothly. So the last step that you should do in receiving the message “The computer’s audio mixer could not be initialized” is to clean and fix all registry errors. If all components including the sound card and some players are able to access the registry database for necessary entries easily, you can easily get back PC sound and enjoy the machine all the time.
Right now, you can get back PC sound together with get rid of the message “The computer’s audio mixer could not be initialized” easily. For a smooth PC running, you’d better regularly up it to the newest version.
