Ive been dealing with this issue for about 7 hours now, first off, I restarted my pc earlier today and when it booted back up the audio icon in the tray looked like this
When clicking it runs a troubleshooter which doesnt fix anything. Looking at my sound devices, only these are showing, the HD audio from my graphics card, which i'm not using as my monitor has no HDMI port (i'm using DVI from my graphics card as display)
Theres a 6th one which is the same as the rest.
The realtek HD audio manager icon has disappeared from the tray, and reinstalling every realtek driver from every source imaginable, my motherboards download page, realtek itself, even system restore to a point that it was working. All didnt work. I ran through everything including reinstalling all my graphics drivers, reseating the card, getting into BIOS and making sure integrated audio was enabled.
Finally, after 6 hours and being almost reduced to tears from frustration, it was all working.
..Only to crap out again within 15 minutes.
I managed to fix it again shortly afterwards, at the cost of my graphics card driver somehow crapping out and having to use onboard graphics, The AMD radeon settings wasnt picking up that it was installed. Managed to fix that and my sound was working fine - until it messed up AGAIN. So i'm pretty much back at the start now.
This has only started happening today, there were no updates that caused it, it was just randomly while playing a game. I've made sure Windows Audio, Audio Endpoint Builder, and all dependant services are running. Ive been to the registry and deleted LowerFilter (there was no Upper) as what I think the Realtek used to be in device manager now shows up with the yellow ! and displays code 10.
I've scoured the internet all night trying everything to just run around in circles.
This is my device manager right now
I Have ASRock z170m itx/ac mobo
hd radeon 7750 gpu
and some kind of logitech speakers that I know definitely work
When clicking it runs a troubleshooter which doesnt fix anything. Looking at my sound devices, only these are showing, the HD audio from my graphics card, which i'm not using as my monitor has no HDMI port (i'm using DVI from my graphics card as display)
Theres a 6th one which is the same as the rest.
The realtek HD audio manager icon has disappeared from the tray, and reinstalling every realtek driver from every source imaginable, my motherboards download page, realtek itself, even system restore to a point that it was working. All didnt work. I ran through everything including reinstalling all my graphics drivers, reseating the card, getting into BIOS and making sure integrated audio was enabled.
Finally, after 6 hours and being almost reduced to tears from frustration, it was all working.
..Only to crap out again within 15 minutes.
I managed to fix it again shortly afterwards, at the cost of my graphics card driver somehow crapping out and having to use onboard graphics, The AMD radeon settings wasnt picking up that it was installed. Managed to fix that and my sound was working fine - until it messed up AGAIN. So i'm pretty much back at the start now.
This has only started happening today, there were no updates that caused it, it was just randomly while playing a game. I've made sure Windows Audio, Audio Endpoint Builder, and all dependant services are running. Ive been to the registry and deleted LowerFilter (there was no Upper) as what I think the Realtek used to be in device manager now shows up with the yellow ! and displays code 10.
I've scoured the internet all night trying everything to just run around in circles.
This is my device manager right now
I Have ASRock z170m itx/ac mobo
hd radeon 7750 gpu
and some kind of logitech speakers that I know definitely work
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