We can’t find an audio device: 0x8889000f

Hi PatchAdamsRYT

How are you? I hope you are doing good.

Welcome to Microsoft Community. I am Juliet, an independent advisor. It's my pleasure to help you today. I know how frustrating this may be for you but I'll do my very best to help you :)

I would suggest you try to Reinstall the sound card’s driver.

1. Open Device Manager by pressing the Windows key + R hotkey and entering devmgmt.msc in Run.
2. Double-click Sound, video and game controllers.
3. Right-click the audio adapter and select Uninstall.
4. Select the Delete the driver software for this device option on the dialog box that opens.
5. Press the Uninstall button.
6. Reinstall the sound adapter driver by clicking Action and selecting Scan for hardware changes.

I hope it helps! Let me know the results.

Please Let me know if you have more questions or the above method didn't work for you, I'll be more than happy to assist you further :)

source:

https://windowsreport.com/windows-cant-find-aud...

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Hi Juliet

I appreciate the reply and suggestion. While it did work initially - a few hours later the same problem happened.

Another method that also works is:
Device Manager -> Disable Real Tek -> Enable Real Tek **** But neither "fix" holds for more than a few hours when the problem happens again. Any thoughts on how to stop this from happening?

Thank You

Good Day PatchAdamsRYT,

My name is Carlo, I'm an Independent Advisor and community member like you.

I am also using Windows 10 pc. Let us work together to sort this out.

Here's the steps you can try.

-Press Windows key + X

-Go to Settings

-Click Update and Security

-Click Troubleshooter then Additional troubleshooter.

-Look for Playing Audio and run the troubleshooter.

Once done proceed with these steps.

-Press Windows key + X

-Go to Device Manager

-Expand the Sound and Video Game Controllers

-Look for Audio driver that was installed

-Right click and Update

-Look for "Browse my computer for driver

-Let me pick drivers available drivers

-Choose an old driver and use it.

-Go to Control Panel

-In Control Panel, select Large icons from the View by drop down menu.

-Select Sound.

-Select the Playback tab

-Right click the Speakers and click Enable.

-Right-click it again and select Set as Default Device.

-Right click Speakers and click Properties.

-Click the Levels tab, then drag the volume slider towards the largest value.

-Click on Advance Tab

-Uncheck the box to "Allow Application to take exclusive controls on this device"

-Click OK.

Restart your computer and observe the audio.

If issue persist, let's download the updated driver

What is the exact model of your computer?

To check the system model proceed with these steps.

-Press Windows key + R

-Type msinfo32 and hit enter.

-Look for the System Model and post it here.

I hope the information above helps. Please let me know how it goes.

Have a wonderful day ahead and stay safe.

Sincerely,

Carlo T.

Hi Carlo,

Good suggestions..thanks...each of them worked ..... until they stopped working shortly thereafter.

System Model is 80Y7

Any other ideas would be much appreciated

Thank You