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Thrillho:
Hello all!

A quick search of the forum gave me no joy in finding some kind of tech support thread. I thought we had one but if do I don't know what it's called!

Recent updates to Windows 10 have left my laptop thinking it has no speakers or microphone. I can plug my USB mic in, and it can see that, and I can input and receive output through that, but otherwise it just thinks it has no sound.

I've tried multiple methods from Googling this. Can anybody suggest anything that has worked for them? Windows' own Wizard keeps claiming to have installed new updates and need to reboot, and then nothing changes.

(click to show/hide)I also just want to rant in passing that I am incredulous about the fact that a product as widely used as Windows can get away with it just being 'a thing' that happens sometimes that it rolls out a new updates and some users just lose all of their sound. This is something that has happened in multiple updates before. How is it still happening? How is this not something that immediately needs addressing in a matter of hours with a patch?)
Fellow mods if it turns out I missed a painfully obvious thread this could have gone in please do merge.

LeeC:
I'm still on windows 8, but I used to do tech support. Sometimes updates (of the windows variety) can screw up drivers. I would go into your device manager and verify that it recognizes the drivers for your speakers and microphones. Sometimes there will be a "?" next to a device indicating that it doesn't recognize it. You can usually click on it and ask it to search for drivers and it will install them.

Hope this helps. I know this sort of thing can be frustrating.

LeeC:
Also I found this, it may help if my suggestion didn't work. Looks like it was posted on Nov 5th 2020 so it should be recent enough information.

https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/fix-windows-10-upgrade-issue-internal-microphone-not-working/

hedgie:
You also have to remember that Windows is designed to basically run on anything from top tier hardware bits hand-picked to work together perfectly, to whatever crap is thrown into a box, to some combination that would even give Cthulhu nightmares.  Quite honestly, I'm impressed that it works at all.

Linux users tend to look at manufacturers that are well-supported by their distro, because there's no expectation of that.

And of course, MacOS tends to be extremely well-optimised and "just works" because there is such limited hardware to support, and Apple controls that too.

Tova:
If you are stuck, you could remove the update to get your laptop back to a working state, at least for the time being.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/recovery-options-in-windows-10-31ce2444-7de3-818c-d626-e3b5a3024da5#bkmk_section1

I would be looking into any forum or support options for your specific laptop model because I imagine you're not the only one who has struck this problem.

Also, did you try turning it off and on again? (yeah I know, but it's the routine thing to ask because it's successful alarmingly often)

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