I've been battling with issues on Windows 10 (with threshold 2 installed, 1511/10586). I have the Realtek audio driver from Windows 8, which I've installed several times, and I'd be happy if Windows would just leave it alone. Windows wants to keep installing it's own version of the Realtek driver, and that's driving me up the wall.
The problem is that I have external speakers that I like to use. So I have them plugged into one of the two headphone jacks (depending on which driver is in use *sigh*). I install the Dell Windows 8 audio driver, and everything works fine, the external speakers are working. Then, after a day or so, Windows installs it's own version of that driver, and the external speakers stop working and the computer speakers are re-enabled.
Okay, so then I decided to go with the flow, and set up the external speaker with the newer audio driver that Windows desperately wants to install, and they worked fine for about a day, and then the computer internal speakers came on again.
Any ideas how I can stabilize the audio on this computer, so that the external speakers work all the time? I don't care which driver I'm using, as long as I can use the external speakers.
Any solutions, or pointer to a Realtek HD audio driver that will just work without falling apart in a day or so? I'm getting real tired of this, but don't want to go back to Windows 8.
I should mention that for the 3 months before I installed the threshold 2 update to Windows 10, the Dell Windows 8 driver was fine, it just kept using that all the time, no problem. Now, I've been battling with this on a daily basis, trying to install the Dell Windows 8 driver and keep it installed, or let the Windows install the new driver and keep the external speakers working.
Any clues for the clueless?
Thanks!
Update: I now have the audio driver that Windows so needs to install in place, and have the external speakers plugged into the "Headphone/digital S/PDIF combo connector" jack. I've answered the "Audio Manager"'s question about what I have plugged into that jack ("Front Speakers", I think), and everything's cool at the moment. Audio is coming out of the external speakers only.
If the audio switches yet again, I'll be back to ask what the heck I can do. Have my fingers crossed that it just stays the way that it is now.