On its own, your computer can't make a sound. Digital data from audio and video files needs to be turned into something that our ears can hear, and this requires specialized hardware and sophisticated ...

Output devices: In the world of computers, output devices play a vital role in helping users receive information from the system. While input devices allow users to give commands and data to the ...

There are several complaints from readers experiencing problems with the audio drivers in their Windows 11/10 computers. The problem is that, after they restart their computers, they find that the ...

This seems like a really obvious thing I am somehow missing... but how do you set a default audio device for output? I have like a million, because I have 3 monitors that all support audio passthrough ...

The other day, I received a strange error – No Audio Output Device is Installed on my new HP laptop recently. I saw it when I hovered my cursor over the sound icon ...

Your USB audio port can be surprisingly useful--giving you even better sound than your computer's regular audio output. Here's how to use it. Eliot Van Buskirk Evolver.fm Editor Eliot Van Buskirk has ...

There's nothing like cranking up some tunes to keep your momentum going during the workday. But if your laptop's sound isn't working, it can really kill your groove. Sometimes it can be hard to figure ...

The "Line In" audio jack on your computer enables you to connect a microphone or other audio output device with a 1/8-inch miniature plug to your computer. On some computers, especially laptops, as ...

Many ports on the back of your computer are self-explanatory: the power socket, Ethernet port, HDMI out for your monitor, and plenty of USB ports. But the multicolor audio jacks on the back aren’t as ...

I've been trying to get my laptop to send audio over the HDMI output into the HDMI ARC input on a new amp. Didn't work with the 11yo v1.2 cable I'd been using but also doesn't work with the one ...