[SOLVED] Realtek audio drivers keep on getting reinstalled and ruin sound quality

[ashutoshmohapatra64]

sus

 

[Lutfij]

You're advised to download the latest drivers from HP's support site from the laptop's support page, then uninstall your audio drivers, then manually reinstall said drivers in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator. You should also see what BIOS version your laptop currently has. If the laptop has BIOS updates pending update the BIOS and then tackle the audio driver issue.

You also might want to mention the model of the HP Victus laptop....something something doesn't exactly narrow down the unit nor does it help in any troubleshooting scenario.

 

[ashutoshmohapatra64]

You're advised to download the latest drivers from HP's support site from the laptop's support page, then uninstall your audio drivers, then manually reinstall said drivers in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator. You should also see what BIOS version your laptop currently has. If the laptop has BIOS updates pending update the BIOS and then tackle the audio driver issue.

sus

 

[ashutoshmohapatra64]

hmh

 

[johnbl]

-you can see if you can disable the hardware in bios so that windows does not install a driver for it.

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you could also, start cmd.exe as an admin then run
net.exe stop "plug and play"
then go into windows device manager, find the device, uninstall the driver for the audio, then disable the device.

then run
net.exe start "plug and play"

(if you fail to stop plug and play the software gets reinstalled right after you attempt to remove it)
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you can also attempt to remove the driver from the driver store but if windows detects the hardware it will download it again from one of the windows servers.

 

[johnbl]

-you can see if you can disable the hardware in bios so that windows does not install a driver for it.

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you could also, start cmd.exe as an admin then run
net.exe stop "plug and play"
then go into windows device manager, find the device, uninstall the driver for the audio, then disable the device.

then run
net.exe start "plug and play"

(if you fail to stop plug and play the software gets reinstalled right after you attempt to remove it)
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you can also attempt to remove the driver from the driver store but if windows detects the hardware it will download it again from one of the windows servers.

for unused audio sources I disable in bios first, then use device manager to disable others that are not in the motherboard. (graphics card HD audio)
this it to prevent unused audio devices responding to the request of your used audio devices. Also, you can update the drivers for the unused devices as some of them had bugs in the old versions that caused them to respond to request that were not intended for their driver.