Windows 10: No sound from sound blaster

I just explained i another post why this is happening basically its because your online when doing the Windows 10 install do it off line have all the drivers handy and then do the entire Windows 10 / installing drivers software offline meaning yank the RJ45 cable from the port or if you use Wireless make sure at no point your connected to the Internet then just go ahead and install it worked like a charm for me. when you have everything installed plug/connect to the internet for updates Works for people having the problem With Ai Suite not wanting to install on Windows 10 to and properly a whole lot of other problems "do it off line m8" then when your rdy you can just connect with ur MS account if you have one i have had no problems with doing it offline i even used my Windows 8.1 drivers for Windows 10 install np and once i connected to the Internet they got updated with no issues

 

Same problem here since the latest windows update on the 24th. Speakers stopped working but jacks were ok so i ignored it. Today I tried to fix it by reinstalling drivers. First I noticed that the playback devices only shows nvidia hdmi audio and a couple of bluetooth devices i had registered. No speakers, no mention of my soundcard (soundblaster recon 3di). Went into device manager, no soundblaster anymore, and no mystery devices to reinstall and not listed in dxdiag, looked in bios, no mention of any sound device. Tried to reinstall creative drivers but kept getting the no supported device messages. After a few hours I found a third party driver checker type program that showed the soundcard as existing but 'unplugged' with a driver installed for it.

So....how do i 'plug in' my soundcard in my laptop that's already there?! Can't find a way to force windows to detect it and re-add it to device manager.

Going quietly insane.

 

I realised this is an old thread but i just wanted to add that the enable/disable from device manager works.
The other way i managed to get this to work was to uninstall all devices under "Sound" in the device manager and restart the comp to use default sound drivers.
Perhaps this is worth looking into, there are some conflicts usually if one or two of your other hardware pieces comes with an integrated sound card/driver.
An example would be, Realtek which comes with some motherboards, NVidia GeForce sound which comes with the graphics card + you would be using a standalone soundblaster card as well.

Just some additional information, all my drivers are up to date.