Outdated or Unavailable Drivers: The drivers installed across the Windows computer may have been outdated, or there would be some additional drivers hindering the process of the other drivers operating the original sound.Under such cases, you need to check if the error directly comes through the Windows update. Windows Update Bugs: Your Windows computer may have gone through a recent update, which may have brought certain bugs and glitches across your device and directly damaged your output sound device.Wrong Port Connection: Considering you have been trying to attach an external sound device to the computer, you may be trying to attach it through the wrong port, which creates a non-functional output device with no audio.
Therefore, it’s possible for you to have a disabled playback device on your Windows computer. In such circumstances, when you try listening through the current playback device, you won’t hear any sound out of it. Playback Device Disabled: There might be a case where you may have tried to attach another sound device with the computer, disabling your current playback device.