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Failed to play test tone
My new Windows 8 Pro tablet was running sluggishly and giving me various performance headaches but everything was back to normal after Windows Updates were brought up-to-date. There was still one issue remaining that puzzled me for two days - my speaker was muted for some reason after I played an online Flash video. When testing the speaker (Control Panel -> Sound -> Configure -> Test), it came up with "Failed to play test tone" error message.
Windows 8 Pro desktop/laptop mode does not come with a Start button. Refer to this article
to find out how to install the classic Windows Start button.
After some searching and digging on the internet, I came across a few solutions. The most common one suggests restarting Windows Audio service. Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services -> Windows Audio But after restarting it, my sound icon in system tray displayed a red cross which refused to go away even I manually turned on all the audios. This blog article led me to the rescue. Below is the steps I took to solve the Windows 8 sound problem - Failed to play test tone.
There are tons of resources on the internet for this problem and the solutions sometimes also vary dramatically. If what shows in this article does not fix your problem, keep trying other suggestions.
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