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Cannot get Beats Audio speakers to work properly.
Heya.
I've got an HP dv7t-7000. I've a recent clean install on it and I cannot get the speakers to work properly. This particular machine comes with a pair of Triple Bass Reflex Subwoofers, which means that it has two run of the mill laptop speakers and an additional subwoofer for each. I have installed the latest drivers from the manufacturer. They actually don't have drivers for Win10, so I'm using the Win8.1 ones. The installation runs smoothly and I can see the Beats Audio control panel. However, only the normal laptop speakers are being driven. No sound comes out of the subwoofers.
After a lot of attempts with the manufacturer's drivers: installing with compatibility mode on, telling windows to update the drivers from the device manager, and tweaking every possible setting in the sound controls, I wound up in this thread. I followed the steps, essentially replacing the IDT High Definition Audio CODEC that came with the manufacturer's drivers with Win10's generic High Definition Audio Driver. Naturally, this has removed the Beats Audio control panel since it removed the previous drivers that came with it.
Win10's generic drivers made the left subwoofer work, but it stopped driving all of the right laptop speakers (the right subwoofer never actually worked).
There are 3 sound devices according to the device manager: High Definition Audio Device, Intel Audio1 and nVidia Audio1 (1 These names may not be accurate, I have no access to my computer right now). I suspect the Intel device manages HDMI audio (this might be completely wrong), however I've tried installing Win10's generic drivers to check if it had anything to do with the problem, to no avail. I have not tampered with the nVidia drivers as they didn't seem to be related.
I'd appreciate anything you can come up with, as I am at a loss as to what to try next.