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- #ACTIVATING MICROSOFT HD AUDIO UPDATE#
- #ACTIVATING MICROSOFT HD AUDIO DRIVER#
- #ACTIVATING MICROSOFT HD AUDIO UPGRADE#
- #ACTIVATING MICROSOFT HD AUDIO SOFTWARE#
- #ACTIVATING MICROSOFT HD AUDIO WINDOWS#
#ACTIVATING MICROSOFT HD AUDIO UPGRADE#
(This quite often happens after an upgrade to Windows 10 from an earlier version of Windows.)
#ACTIVATING MICROSOFT HD AUDIO DRIVER#
If your sound driver has somehow been removed, corrupted or become incompatible with Windows 10, you won’t be able to hear any sound from your speakers.
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To fix, just click them, click Set Default, then click OK and test whether you have sound. If your Speakers are NOT already set as the default, this is doubtless your problem. This indicates that your speakers are the default playback device.
#ACTIVATING MICROSOFT HD AUDIO UPDATE#
#ACTIVATING MICROSOFT HD AUDIO SOFTWARE#
Note that no option to delete driver software appears in this case. Next, I uninstalled the generic driver and again scanned for hardware changes. However, after reboot, Playback Devices still reports "No audio devices This resulted in the generic driver appearing in Device Manager.
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With the SoundMAX driver installed, I uninstalled the driver, deleted driver software, and scanned for hardware changes.