Current Events > windows 10 restarted my pc by itself, now my sound speakers don't work?

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Trying every port on the desktop and troubleshooting but nothing. Fucking windows 10 I swear...
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It did that and made my webcam stop working for half a semester of virtual classes until the next update came out.

Gotta love MS.

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Reinstall sound drivers

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Check the device manager to make sure the audio drivers are enabled.

Make sure the speakers are set as the default output device.

Make sure Windows Audio service is started / try restarting it if it's not.

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Finally after endless banging and sorting through wires and unplugging and replugging, the sound seems to be working... for now.

I really hate that this is something I have to worry about, it's not right.
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There's a reason why MS skipped Win. 9

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"Is it a virus?"

"Worse, it's Windows 10 updating."

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this happened to me too, repeatedly. so i rolled back the version and then blocked all outgoing internet traffic (via router) except for specific applications configured to access it through a proxy i set up on another (linux) computer in my local area network. i can give instructions on how to do this if needed.

there are tradeoffs in networking performance, so i'm not sure how it will handle things with more demands with respect to networking resources, but windows update hasn't nagged me or run in weeks now.

i didn't use the computer for much except audio production to begin with, so updates are not much of a concern for me, and system vulnerabilities aren't a concern since the computer can't access the internet through its normal avenues.

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One time Windows updated and it pretty much nearly bricked my PC. I had to go to Safe Mode and revert to a previous version in order to get things working again.

Then later it did it a second time but this time I couldn't even get into Safe Mode. So I had to get a new PC built. I'm convinced it was because I kept using Windows 7 instead of switching to 10.
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Why though. Why are they doing this to us. I've never had this problem with Windows XP, possibly still the best Windows. And even Windows 8, the one people hated, I've never had this bad a problem with (I had 8.1)
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Like 90% of the time I put my computer into sleep mode and resume it doesn't recognize the HDMI out as an audio output so I have to manually disable and reenable the Nvidia HD audio driver it's so annoying.

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saspa posted...

Finally after endless banging and sorting through wires and unplugging and replugging, the sound seems to be working... for now.

Just admit you had headphones selected in the volume control box.

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Homeless_Waifu posted...

There's a reason why MS skipped Win. 9

7 8 9

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Had the same stupid audio problem when I had Windows 10, so I went back to WIndows 8.

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