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Enhancements Tab on Windows 11

I am having issues on my Lenovo ThinkPad E490 laptop running Windows 11. Trying to plug a set of plug and play headphones via the 3.5 mm jack the sound comes out of them but not at the expected ...
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Windows 10 laptop sound problems

I have had this laptop (Windows 10 pro Lenovo IdeaPad L340 Gaming - core i7 9th generation) for about 2 years now. But lately I've been experiencing sound problems (no sound at all coming out of my ...
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Medion Akoya E2212T (MD 99720): after reinstall Windows 10 32bit no mouse / no keyboard (and no sound which was also missing before)

I have reinstalled Windows 10 32bit on my old netbook Medion Akoya E2212T (MD 99720) in order to get my sound back which I was missing since an update in 2017. The only solution since then was to ...
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How do I make Windows recognize commands from earphones buttons/controls?

I'm running Window 10 1909, up to date with Windows Update, on a fairly new laptop (from last year, it's an Acer A515-51G-72DB) and I'm trying to get my Samsung earphone's buttons to control media ...
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How to run a Conexant driver application flow.exe in background

I have HP EliteBook 840 G5 with Conexant sound card. When the computer starts driver application flow.exe automatically starts. Is there any way to run this app in background?
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Windows 10: Windows deleted all audio devices and soundcard - driver reinstall fails

I took an action which caused all of my onboard audio devices to be deleted by Windows, and I am stuck in getting them back: What I've done: I found an old analog microphone (really analog, just a ...
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Software issue with audio being cross-mixed between channels

This is my Windows 10 laptop from work, a Dell XPS 13, with Realtek Audio driver version 6.0.1.8475. When listening to audio through the headphones jack on the laptop itself, the audio gets downmixed ...
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Soundcard Xonar DGX only works 'sometimes'

Since about half a year, i am having a really confusing time with my Soundcard. When I boot my PC up it feels like there is a gamble going on that is deciding if the Sound Card works now. If it does ...
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How to get surround sound speakers working "speaker-fill-style" with SB 5.1 VX

I have a 5.1 soundsystem connected to a "SB 5.1 vx" soundcard on Win10. It's running fine generally - when testing it through the windows sound driver options it works, I can hear sounds from ALL ...
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Sound Not Working Windows 10 v1809

I recently installed Windows 10 Pro 1809 and I've got a weird sound problem, let me explain what's happening. If I try to adjust the sound here: I can hear the "ting" sound that you hear when you ...
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Loud buzzing noise through microphone

Whenever I have my microphone plugged in, it makes this noise: https://vocaroo.com/i/s0w66Ay95zpG While it is possible to hear my voice if I talk, it's almost impossible due to the noise. It's not my ...
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Volume is usually low on my laptop, is there a software/driver way to add +20dB to the output?

Compared to previous laptop computers I had, I've found that the different Thinkpad T*** series I have, have a low or at best "medium" output loudspeaker volume (that's normal: they are not designed ...
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Black Screen with Asus Xonar DX

I just installed Windows 10 on a Samsung 960 Evo (UEFI mode) and successfully installed all drivers except the one for my sound card. As soon as I install the driver for my Asus Xonar DX, I get a ...
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Remove Loudness Equalisation windows 10

I have a realtek intergrated sound card on my laptop , running the latest driver version. I experience loudness equalisation (The bass seems to quiet down even when I crank up the volume) there was a ...
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Asus Xonar D1 looses sound on one of the channels

I've bought an Asus Xonar D1 sound card a year ago. Since then I've been enjoying the sound quality and being plagued by it's bugs. Some were solved by switching to 3rd-party drivers, but one bug ...
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Sound works in Ubuntu but not in Windows 10

I tried updating device drivers in windows, but it just says "no headphones or speakers plugged in." It was working on the same hardware with windows 10 running on it previously. I had a disk failure ...
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Windows 10 Sound not working

It starts with a red cross by the sound icon on task bar. On checking playback devices I find all are grayed out and enabled. Regardless, it says no audio device plugged in. (Even though I have ...
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PCI-E Sound Card not Appearing in Device Manager

I have a HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF desktop computer running Windows 7 x64. The onboard sound card doesn't allow separate outputs for front and rear audio ports and they all output the same channel. I ...
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How to control Creative audio card from Windows mixer?

I've fitted a Creative Sound Blaster Z to my Windows 7 64-bit Professional and installed Creative control panel and (the latest 64-bit?) drivers. In the speaker menu on the bottom right of Windows I ...
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Audio won't work after latest update [Windows Version 10.0.15063]

I'm using a Sound Blaster Z card to power my DT 990 PRO (250ohm) headphones, which works just fine. But after receiving windows update 10.0.15063 the audio stopped working. I've tried to figure out ...
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ALSA -- unknown soundcard oxygen

So I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, but I'm having some trouble with a Fedora 25 install (4.10.12-200.fc25.x86_64) where I want to get my Xonar DGX sound card working. I've pretty much ...
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No sound coming from the computer

I have an issue related to the onboard sound card of my desktop PC. Basically, yesterday i was swapping a few video cards inside my computer to test them, and suddenly, i noticed that there was a ...
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sound card not detected in Kali 2 Debian

I'm using Kali Linux 2.0 and have a problem with my audio card. I tested many solutions like pulseaudio or alsamixer or upgrade packages but my problem is still not resolved. I don't have any sound ...
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Sound not working on Windows but works on Linux

I am facing a strange problem where sound isn't working in windows. I first faced this issue in Windows 10 when I started my PC after a month and voila there was no sound. I hadn't started my computer ...
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Sound Blaster Audigy FX No sound

Hi I have a pci express sound blaster audigy fx card and a pci express ati radeon hd7970 graphics card. When I install the official drivers from the creative website I get different results in the ...
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Creative sound blaster Z windows 10 5.1 volume control

So I just bought this sound card Creative Sound Blaster Z. Connected it via optical cable to Logitech Z906. Installed latest drivers from their web page, enabled encoding to dts and it works, my ...
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Creative Recon3D Fatal1ty no longer working on Windows 7

When building my Digital Audio Workstation three years ago, I chose a Creative Recon3D Fatal1ty sound card. It's worked just fine until the past few months, during which time it has begun having ...
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Crackling Audio issues on LACK of CPU load

I have been trying to track down an intermittent crackling audio issue for YEARS now to no avail. I've checked DPC, memory pagefiles, etc... back when I was running Win7 -- which also had the issue (...
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Sound Hardware Only Detected After Sleep

I have a Packard Bell iMedia from a few years back, which i now let my (young) daughters use. It originally had Vista so a few years back I put XP on it, and most recently Win7 x64. Specs Windows 7 ...
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IDT 92HD93 driver for Windows 10

I have a 2-year old Dell Latitude E6330 with an IDT 92HD93 sound card. Unfortunately there don't seem to be any Windows 10 drivers for that card (I've looked almost everywhere), and the Windows 8.1 ...
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Windows OS takes exclusive control of audio

So when I start up I hear the two sounds when loading and then after that I get no sounds, I do get the logoff sound if I power off or reboot (hence be thinking it is system sounds hijacking the ...
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X-Fi XtremeGamer under Windows 10

So, I have a Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeGamer, and I've installed Windows 10 on my machine. Everything seems to work ok, except that I have no sound. I noticed on the Creative website that they expect to ...
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How to make 4 channel "3.1 surround" WDM work with Winamp?

I'm using an external audio interface (Reloop Play). This supports 4 channels and ASIO. ASIO wise it works perfectly fine and is how i use it for music production or dj-ing (with Traktor). For normal ...
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Use all 5.1 speakers with 2 channel audio sources [duplicate]

I would like to upmix 2 channel audio sources such that they use all of my 5.1 speakers. I have a realtek sound card (with updated drivers) and Windows 7. Here's what i've tried: Using the "...
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Switch default sound card, while both use the same driver

I have problems with sound on my Linux Mint 17.1. It generally works, but gets interrupted by scratchy noise most of the time. I followed some tutorials and here is what I found out: $ LC_ALL=C sudo ...
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Realtek HD Audio and continuous "You just unplugged a device" message woes

I'm running a Gigabyte X58 board with integrated Realtek HD Audio under Windows 7 64bit and I'm wanting to pass surround audio to my AV receiver via the onboard coaxial S/PDIF output. When using ...
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How do I fix crackling in my audio seemingly caused by my USB Logitech trackball mouse?

My USB mouse—an unknown trackball model made by Logitech—has, as of a recent system rebuild (I used Windows 8’s “refresh your computer” feature), begun making my audio crackle. I did some research and ...
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Text-to-Speech Fadeout (BUG) --- RE:sound card hardware, windows TTS engine or controlling apps

Problem: Applications that use Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine cause the speech to fadeout mid sentence. Reads current sentence of text then fades out after about 1-2 seconds only to return at the ...
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Is it possible to amplify 3w 4ohm speaker using any software?

My PC has integrated sound card. The interface of Audio output is "Realtek". my speaker is "DAIN 4ohm 3watt" https://www.adafruit.com/product/1314 and it has a controller with few capacitors, few ...
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External sound card not working with Windows 10

I appreciate Windows 10 is a preview edition of the software, so I can have no quarrels if some of it doesn't work. However, my UA-25 external audio interface will not function with the January build ...
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No sound after Ubuntu upgrade

I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and now have no sound. This seems to be a common problem, but the answers on the Ubuntu forums aren't working for me. #> aplay -l aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards ...
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Windows 8 audio driver not installed automatically issue

I have a desktop. Once I had a problem with my sound card (Internal), so I replaced it with a new one. Then I installed ubuntu and the sound drivers installed automatically. Now I've just installed ...
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Headset – sound, but no microphone – sound & microphone good on other computer

Headset – sound, but no microphone – sound & microphone good on other computer I plugged in a Logitech G230, and I got sound. I could not get my microphone to work. I tested the headset on ...
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Unable to install audio drivers on Windows 7

I am not able to install audio drivers on Windows 7. While installing VIA HD Audio Codec Driver I get following message: Dxdiag results:
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Driver problems with HP Beats Audio Laptop and Headphones Plugged In

Having some audio driver issues with my HP laptop, it comes with beats audio. None of the effects in the manufacturer's control panel work, and I can't find music listenable on my headphones without a ...
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Delay in playing(recording?) real time raw audio in LINUX

I'm developing OpenWrt device which sends audio data to network but I have issues in the early beginning. I'm trying to find which cause delay in playing (or maybe recording, but more probably ...
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Windows 8 won't output stereo sound

I have two sets of stereo speakers. Speakers on my desk and a pair of headphones. The speakers are connected to a port on the back and the headphones are connected to a USB port on the front. (...
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Sound suddenly stopped working

So, this morning, I was happily listening to music on my laptop, when in the afternoon, it just stopped working for no apparent reason. The only thing I have done was rebooting the computer, and ...
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identify which process is outputting sound

My computer periodically makes a random ding (among other sounds), and I can't figure out the source. Suggestions on SU include using bar indicators in the volume mixer to look for the source. This ...
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No sound on boot w/ speakers & headphones plugged in

When I boot my pc with speakers + headphones plugged in, they're detected but don't play sound. When I test them, they show that they're playing sound, but I don't hear anything. The strange thing ...
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