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Two Realtek audio drivers installed?

DSD27
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I have a Strix B850-E. I've noticed in the control panel that I have two Realtek audio drivers installed, being the USB Audio the one I know it's correct one I installed form the Asus website. I'm wondering if Windows wrongly installed the other one automatically before?

Is this normal?

 

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Looks normal.

The faded out one in the middle you can uninstall.

Right click properties, details, hardware ids and copy the hardware ID into chatgpt. Should be able to tell you what the other driver is for.

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11 hours ago, MewMew said:

Looks normal.

The faded out one in the middle you can uninstall.

Right click properties, details, hardware ids and copy the hardware ID into chatgpt. Should be able to tell you what the other driver is for.

The one in the middle is not faded out, it just happens to have different saturation on the icon. It's the ethernet driver and it's needed.

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On 4/11/2025 at 4:52 AM, DSD27 said:

The one in the middle is not faded out, it just happens to have different saturation on the icon. It's the ethernet driver and it's needed.

Oh ya don't delete that for sure. I thought you had hidden devices showing. If you can't identify the driver through hardware ID alone, ChatGPT has better answers than here, so maybe ask on there? It should give you a solid answer as to why there's an 'extra' driver here.

 

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On 4/11/2025 at 2:11 AM, DSD27 said:

I have a Strix B850-E. I've noticed in the control panel that I have two Realtek audio drivers installed, being the USB Audio the one I know it's correct one I installed form the Asus website. I'm wondering if Windows wrongly installed the other one automatically before?

Is this normal?

One could be USB and the other could be analog. (3.5mm jack)

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