Windows 10: No audio and now my high definition audio controller is giving me a code 10

Hey,

I have a msi gp 63 leopard.

I was playing games then I got a random bluescreen.

I restarted my computer once and I realized I have no audio.

In my device manage. A driver called High definition audio controller is giving me a code 10 and will not start.

My laptops speakers stopped working and I can no longer use my audio jack.

I have tried updating all of my drivers. Please help.

:)

 

Windows High Definition Audio Controller Code 10

Hi all, my High Definition Audio Controller shows up in Device Manager with a yellow exclamation mark and has code 10 in its Properties. I can't play any sound at all. I've tried:

-Uninstalling the High Definition Audio Controller and restarting my computer to no avail

-Using Windows Troubleshooter which couldn't identify the problem. It just said "High Definition Audio Controller has a driver problem".

I'm using Windows on a partition in my 2012 Macbook Pro running Mojave. The Windows partition was installed using a bootable USB.

 

Code 10 for High Definition Audio Controller

On an Asus N55SF, upgrading Windows 10 from version 1607 to 1709 (a reset install from USB, since numerous attempts through Windows update had failed to complete) caused havoc in that the High Definition Audio Controller (Device Manager – System devices)
subsequently refused to start; the dreaded Code 10 error. No such issues ever noted under version 1607.

Having then tried a host of suggestions posted online, and several combinations thereof, including Windows’ Troubleshoot – Playing Audio and Troubleshoot – Hardware and Devices, checking under Services if Windows Audio is running, removing and reinstalling
different versions of Realtek High Definition Audio drivers, Intel graphics and chipset drivers, modifying the registry (deleting UpperFilter values), all to no avail, the issue looked hopelessly deadlocked. An external USB DAC (Denon DA-10) was working fine
all the time.

However, one BIOS (ver. 207) setting on this Asus N55SF machine presents an apparently working work-around, if not a real solution: under the “Advanced” tab, when “Play POST Sound” is set to “Yes”, it enables the High Definition Audio Controller to start
when loading Windows, and the Realtek High Definiton Audio devices (both speakers and microphone) to work again. One then has to live with a sound being played at Windows startup and shut-down, but the “Speaker Volume” for this sound can be set to low (“1”)
in the BIOS settings.

The Realtek High Definiton Audio driver 6.0.1.7571 was automatically installed by Windows, but it did not work well; the best results so far on this machine with Windows 10 version 1709 have been with the Realtek High Definiton Audio driver 6.0.1.6413 (for
Windows 7) from Asus Support. It does, however, fail to install Asus Sonic Master. That does not matter much to me. The most recent driver versions 6.0.1.8219 and 6.0.1.8228 found at the excellent Asus driver resources site
https://ivanrf.com/en/blog/ install OK, but run less stably in this case than version 6.0.1.6413.

 

High Definition Audio Controller (Code: 10) Issue

Motherboard: MSI B360M Gaming Plus

OS: Windows 10 Pro

List of things I've done:

Downloaded audio drivers from MSI website

Updated my BIOS

Uninstalled and Reinstalled the High Definition Audio Controller

cmd commands: sfc /scannow & DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

Completely removed all other audio drivers and installed Realtek audio drivers (Which for some reason never actually appear on device manager?)

I'd appreciate any help I could get.

It started happening out of the blue; I never downloaded anything.