Windows 10 Sound Problems

[_Leigh]

Hi all 

 

Apologies if this isn't where this is supposed to be posted. 

 

About a week ago I upgraded to Windows 10 and everything was fine. However, last night, my sound stopped working all of a sudden. I got the dreaded red cross under the speaker.  I have literally tried everything - uninstalled drivers, reinstalled drivers, turned off auto driver install and reinstalled. I am at a loss as to how this can be fixed, looking around on the web, this seems to be a common issue. Everything was working fine till last night. 

 

I am using logitech speakers and Audio Techica headphones

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated 

[N-Kryptic]

What are you running IDT, Realtek? if so uninstall all drivers that control anything related to audio (Razer, Dolby, Beats, APO, DTS. etc) All of sound drivers in device manager and disable any enhancements in playback devices menu and then reboot, windows should automatically install generic drivers so you at least have sound again and then re download drivers from manufacturer website and install them if they fail to install you can try to disable driver signature reinforcement through advanced restart settings and try to reinstall drivers again and reboot. Also check to see if you have any software (like games that installed any 3rd party audio stuff and uninstall that) good luck!

[Anghammarad]

Just a silent cry in the woods:

 

could be a autosensing issue from the audio ports... had that with realtek onboard sound after upgrading to 10. disabled the port autosensing and all was well again.