HOW TO MAKE SOUND ENABLE IN SAFE MODE

It is possible to make sound work on Safe Mode. Press Windows + R, type devmgmt.msc, press Enter and look for your sound device. (e.g. Reatlek High Definition Audio) Double-click it. Go to the tab 'Details' and click the drop-down list. Select 'Driver key' and copy the text from 'Value' Copy the text into a word processor (e.g. Notepad) Replace all lower-case letters with capital letters and remove the\0000. Open Registry Editor (Windows + R >regedit) and locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network. Create a new key (Rightclick > New> Key) Copy the text from your word processor and paste it into the key name. Edit the '(Default)' key and type 'Sound, video and game controllers'. Create a new key called 'AudioEndpointBuilder', 'MMCSS' and 'Audiosrv' Edit all their '(Default)' keys and type'Service'. Restart your computer Go to Services (Windows + R > services.msc) and start Multimedia Class Scheduler and Windows Audio Endpoint Builder. Then start Windows Audio Service This has been tested and functioningproperly on an Acer Aspire desktop. This workaround may not work with Windows XP.