Windows 10: Fall Creator's Update and Sound

I finally got the 1709 Fall Creator's Update on my Dell Optiplex 330. At first, I thought it was flawless, but then realized that my "Line In" sound wasn't working, which I use on a regular basis, even though no errors were being shown in Device Manager. Not wanting to reverse the update if it was something I could solve, I double-clicked the sound device in Device Manager, clicked on the "Driver" tab, then clicked "Update Driver", selected "Browse my computer for driver software", then "Let me pick from an list of available drivers from by computer". Only one driver was shown, so I selected it and clicked "Next". Windows warned me that it could not confirm that the driver was compatible with my hardware, but I installed it anyway and the "Line in" began working immediately. Hope this helps someone.


Ben

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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update sound problem

So, yesterday, my Windows 10 PC ran perfectly.

Then "Fall Creator's Update" happened. (01/21/2018)

Then this morning, NO SOUND.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the sound driver(s) (Realtek)

NO SOUND.

I did a Restore to get rid of the "Fall Creator's Update".

Sound works again.

I'm going with the update breaking the sound at some point in "software" -- NOT HARDWARE.

If Microsoft has another plausible scenario, I'd like to hear it.

My mother board is a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H, with Realtek audio and the latest driver(s).

Moved from: Windows / Windows 10 / Devices & drivers

 

Broken sound after Creators Update

These problems are reported with *all* kind of Windows 10 PC's after the Fall update, not only Dell. And with all kind of motherboards (with or without 3rd party soundcard) from MSI, to Asus to ASRock etc.

I build my own system and have the same problems, others with complete Dell, HP or whatever the same complaint or sound related from crackling sound to no sound.

Google gives a LOT of results when searching. A lot of problems started after the Creators update beginning this year. I did not have those problems though. But after the Fall Creators update, I too was a Windows 10 sound victim.

 

Thanks for your post. Some find that with major build updates there's a driver amongst the new set supplied that causes problems, and they have to use an older one, as MS seems to change it's driver database for some PCs from Windows build to Windows build, and sometimes this doesn't work out.

You now need to protect that driver from being replaced again by Windows.
Hide or Show Windows Updates in Windows 10 Windows Update Activation Tutorials

For example, I had to use a touchpad driver 3 versions older to restore 1 finger and chiral (circular) scrolling - a fairly commonly reported problem when I searched.