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Driver for 'driverless' USB headphones?

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Go to solution Solved by Brennan Price,

The headphones you mention are indeed USB and do need drivers however if you go into device manager and uninstall all audio drivers there, you can then install the Logitech ones and they should then work. If you get further issues then I would recommend using Realtek HD audio drivers instead. 

I have a pair of Logitech H540 headphones, and they do not work due to drivers. I have tried on two different Windows 7 PCs, doesn't work. USB not recognized in one, no driver in the other. (The no driver computer was working perfectly with it yesterday by the way, I have rebooted.) But when I tried on a Windows Vista PC, it works perfectly all of a sudden.

 

How can I either copy the Vista driver to 7, or download a driver? The manufacturer website says no drivers are needed, it uses default windows drivers. Neither win 7 PC has the latest updates, neither checks for updates, (I know the security risks but I do it anyway) and so an update could not have broken it.

 

I'm getting a lot of these sort of stupid problems that sometimes fix themselves, sometimes not. My laptop blue-screened a few times some weeks ago but has been fine since. Am I likely to get the same kind of rubbish if I switched to Linux?

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The headphones you mention are indeed USB and do need drivers however if you go into device manager and uninstall all audio drivers there, you can then install the Logitech ones and they should then work. If you get further issues then I would recommend using Realtek HD audio drivers instead. 

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9 minutes ago, Brennan_Price said:

The headphones you mention are indeed USB and do need drivers however if you go into device manager and uninstall all audio drivers there, you can then install the Logitech ones and they should then work. If you get further issues then I would recommend using Realtek HD audio drivers instead. 

Thanks, uninstalling the device and plugging it in again worked.

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