Sorry, John, I just checked this. Umm, I have a Creative Sound Card.. I put it in my box so I'd have a dedicated sound device. It does not appear in the Device Manager. It's a legacy card, but Windows 8 had no problem finding it. What I found to be so weird was I have installed Windows 8 many times & 8.1 and it was always recognized. And then Windows 10 did not? To make matters more confusing, when re-installing Windows 8.1, now Windows 8.1 doesn't recognize it. I find this very weird. And now I can't boot into Windows 8.1, anymore. just an orange screen.
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I actually thought about turning the onboard sound on in the bios, and see if I could get sound that way. But I'm more interested in why I can't actually boot into Windows after an install. I tried every type of repair and I think that after the install, the boot file is missing, winload.exe.
So why can't this be corrected during a repair? Maybe the missing audio driver does have something to do with the boot issue.... UGGGGHHH!
At any rate, the best thing about Windows 8, was not having to search for pesky drivers anymore, etc.
What the hay? I had to stop investigating for a few days and rejoin the family. I don't know if I've ever had such a problem installing an OS before!!!!
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All ideas welcome. Thanks all.
Wendy
I have two sound output devices, a soundbar using digital optical S/PDIF (motherboard rear panel) and a pair of headphones using a 3.5mm phonejack.
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I was recently having trouble getting a piece of software to output to the headphones instead of the speaker. But when I tried disabling my soundbar from Control Panel >Sound >Playback (also accessable from the tray icon) it completely removed the S/PDIF HD digital audio device from the list of playback devices and now my computer no longer recognizes it at all.
I have looked all through the Sound menu in Control Panel, the Realtek HD Audio Manager, and device manager and I can't find any sign of a connected digital audio device anywhere. Realtek Manager recognizes my optical port but doesn't show that anything is plugged in.
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So how can I re-add an audio device I have disabled?
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By default it seems that control panel hides disabled audio devices in the Sound menu. To fix this right-click anywhere in the list of devices and choose Show Disconnected Devices
Now the disabled devices should show up allowing you to right-click and enable them.
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