Audio Realtek HD driver is one of the sound drivers that are mostly used that allow you to manage sound settings for Windows. Realtek HD Audio Manager comes with Realtek audio drivers built. This sound driver has so many valuable features and also supports digital converters to analog six channels (DAC) with a modulation of 16.20.24-bit credit code in the audio channel 5.1. Along with offering high -quality sound to your system with the help of audio cards, the sound driver also handles sound control games in the window. To increase sound, you need to connect it to your audio device.
There may be a scenario when you face problems in accessing voice drivers or when the Audio Manager Realtek Icon has disappeared from the task bar, system tray or notification. The problem may begin to arise when you have updated Windows or if there are changes in the audio card driver.
To solve problems, first, you should know where to find Realtek HD Audio Manager
Where to Look for Realtek HD Audio Manager?
Realtek HD Audio Manager is usually installed together with Realtek HD audio drivers. If you have installed audio drivers, you can find Realtek HD Audio Manager from the Control Panel.
In this case, you cannot find Realtek HD Audio Manager in the Control Panel, follow the instructions given below:
- Go to the C drive of your device, open Program Files, click on Realtek, and then open Audio folder
- In the HDA folder, double-click on RtkNGUI64.exe and doing this will open Realktek HD audio manager.
If you still fail to find Realtek HD Audio Manager, you might need to install it again after updating the Audio Realtek HD driver.
Reinstalling Realtek HD Audio Manager
To reinstall Realtek HD Audio Manager, you will be asked to update the audio driver first but before deleting the outdated installation.
Uninstalling the Drivers
Start by removing all the existing drivers to avoid getting a downloaded duplicate driver and doing this follow the instructions given below-
- Click on Start menu button and go to the Device Manager.
- You will see a list there and you have to expand Sound, video and game controllers.
- Look for the audio driver Realtek High Definition Audio.
- Right-click on it and from the drop-down menu, select ‘Uninstall’ option.
- Tick mark the option ‘Delete the driver software for this device’ and click on ‘Uninstall’.
- Open Views tab and click on ‘Show hidden devices’ from the drop-down menu.
- Now check if there are any duplicate drivers. If yes, right-click on it and press the Uninstall button. After that, restart the system.
Download and Re-install the Realtek HD Audio Manager
After uninstalling, now you can update the audio drivers, follow these instructions:
- Go to the Realtek website in a browser.
- Find the right drivers for your device and download them manually. Once you have downloaded the file, you can run the file and follow the instructions to install the update.
Troubleshooting Realtek HD Audio Manager
Even after updating the HD Realtek Audio Driver, if the problem is still there, you can follow the problem solving tip given:
- Disable Microsoft UAA Bus Driver
- Go to the Device Manager and expand the System Devices.
- Look for Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for HD Audio.
- Right-click on it and from the drop-down, click on ‘Disable’.
- Go to ‘Windows Settings’ and then click on ‘Apps and Features’.
- Click on ‘Realtek High Definition Audio Driver’ and then click on ‘Uninstall the driver’.
- Then go to Device Manager and right-click on the disabled driver.
- From the drop-down menu, click on ‘Uninstall’.
- Now, you can reinstall the Realtek HD Audio Driver.
- Enable the Startup
- Using the ‘Start’ menu, open the Task Manager.
- Then go to the Startup tab and look for Realtek HD Audio Manager.
- If the status is showing as ‘Disabled’, right-click on it and click Enable from the drop-down menu and then restart the system.
- Update the Sound driver software
- Go to Device Manager and click on (+) to expand Sound, video and game controllers.
- Right-click on Realtek High Definition Audio and from the menu, click on Update driver option.
- If you have the latest driver setup file on your system, choose ‘Browse my computer’ under driver software.
- Click on the option ‘Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer’.
- Look for the latest driver by date and then click on ‘Next’ to update.
- Add Legacy hardware
- Go to Device Manager and click on (+) to expand Sound, video and game controllers.
- Click on the ‘Action’ tab, search and click on ‘Add legacy hardware’ from the menu.
