Realtek looses sound after increasing volume

[Benedictus]

Hail:

Running W10 Pro x64 v1907 Fall Edition.
Latest Realtek Driver.

After clean install the volume mixer tells me the volume is set at 67% but is working fine, despite low sound.
Upon bringing this volume to 100, Realtek looses ALL sound.
Tried several times again, up to clean install (delete driver in Safe Mode, restart Safe Mode, restart normal mode and install clean), but nothing helps.

Anyone a clue on how to increase the volume without losing sound completely?

Thank you aforehand:
Ben

 

[johnbl]

I would be looking for two sound sources using the same hardware settings.
generally, update the motherboard sound drivers, disable any high def sound sources that don't have speakers attached. use control panel device manager.
reboot into bios and update it or toggle any setting (change something and change it back)
it will force the bios to rescan hardware, and reassign all DMA channels and interrupts and rebuilt the database the bios sends to windows plug and play.

Note: most motherboard vendors updated their sound drivers after windows 10 shipped. These drivers are not updated by windows update. if you have a add on USB thumb audio driver you might have to update that also.

could just be a bug with the new driver but check the other things also.

 

[Benedictus]

I have no secondary driver/source.
All was well before the update to the Fall Edition.
I could revert and wait for the new driver, but who knows how long it will take Realtek to fix the issue.
I also lost Sound Manager, I think the two things are connected.
If I unplug my headphone and revert to my 250W JBL's the Sound Manager no longer responds with Device unplugged, or when plugging the headphones in with "A Device was plugged in".

Sound Manager also checks the volume of the Realtek Card...

Thank you for answering, brother!

 

[johnbl]

most machines will have at least 2 sound sources. One from the motherboard, one from the gpu.
often the GPU has to provide video via HDMI cable which has sound support included.

if you lost access to the sound app then you would have to update the app from the vendor. I think my wife's machine lost its sound app during the update also. I think the install indicated it was not compatible with the windows update.
I think the new windows 10 license agreement allows Microsoft to remove apps that cause problems. you should be able to reinstall the app or look for a updated version. in my case it was some Conexant hd audio app. looks like I have a different version after the update.

you might look here for a update:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
driver dated 2017/7/26

I have no secondary driver/source.
All was well before the update to the Fall Edition.
I could revert and wait for the new driver, but who knows how long it will take Realtek to fix the issue.
I also lost Sound Manager, I think the two things are connected.
If I unplug my headphone and revert to my 250W JBL's the Sound Manager no longer responds with Device unplugged, or when plugging the headphones in with "A Device was plugged in".

Sound Manager also checks the volume of the Realtek Card...

Thank you for answering, brother!

 

[Benedictus]

I have the latest driver from that site, Sir.
But Sound Manager does not get installed.
Hence I said, I will probably need to wait for a new driver.

NVIDIA has a wave table, but that one is deactivated (which i consider not there, thus).

Thank you for the reply.

 

[Benedictus]

Well, I deactivated device in Safe Mode, uninstalled it, and installed an earlier version.
That seems to have done it...

Crazy.

Thank you all for the assist.