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liteon163
Aug 23, 2017
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I have a SoundBlaster Z, which is the base card in this drop. The hardware is spectacular. The drivers, not so much. Every time I update my video card driver I have to reinstall the sound card driver because the HDMI part of the video card driver messes with the sound card driver. I then have to disable the video card's sound through device manager to ensure the sound card continues working as it should, otherwise the sound card driver has difficulty recognizing the sound card hardware's presence.
IamDefiler
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Nov 12, 2017
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liteon163I have an older SB X-Fi sound card and my nVidia drivers will do the same but instead of reinstalling the SB drivers, I just select the output from the speaker icon in the task bar to be the speakers instead of the display port output. Try that if you haven't in the past. It's a lot easier than reinstalling drivers every time.
liteon163
Nov 12, 2017
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IamDefilerI've tried that and the PC still tries to default to the HDMI output every time I boot up. I'm fairly certain once this sound card goes kaput I'll replace it with a USB DAC/amp. But it's still going strong, so hopefully that will be quite awhile.
A community member
Nov 12, 2017
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IamDefilerHave you tried custom installing your Nvidia drivers?
A community member
Nov 13, 2017
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liteon163The same should apply with AMD. Check for a custom install option which should allow you to select which drivers you want to install. I also suggest doing a clean install if the option is available. You will probably have to reset all of your catalyst options but it should clean out all the old AMD audio drivers.
SpecTP
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Dec 18, 2017
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liteon163I do custom graphics card driver installation and never install the hdmi sound drivers from it. You can also go into system on the control panel and disable those outputs.
liteon163
Dec 18, 2017
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SpecTPI have disabled HDMI sound. It helps a bit. The biggest improvement in stability comes when I connect headphones only when I use them instead of always keeping them hooked up.
SilentGhost
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Feb 16, 2018
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liteon163This is a constant issue with video drivers, and not one that I've found a solution to. It's happened with onboard audio, several USB DACs, and my X-Fi Titanium through SPDIF to a DAC/Amp.
And I blame Windows, not the GPU drivers, and not the sound drivers. Output device designation is a Windows function and there doesn't seem to be a way to lock it off of DP/HDMI outputs on monitors (I have three!) if you never want to use them.
And I blame Windows, not the GPU drivers, and not the sound drivers. Output device designation is a Windows function and there doesn't seem to be a way to lock it off of DP/HDMI outputs on monitors (I have three!) if you never want to use them.
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