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Audio issues, seemingly not driver related.
So, I transitioned flawlessly to Windows 10 on release day in 2015, everything was working flawlessly, beside the odd intermittent bug of little relevance.
Now 1 year later things have been a lot less enjoyable. During this time of consistent updates, I've had numerous issues that have come and gone. The latest of these is audio related, and are more annoying than anything else that I felt I had to share my experiences with it thus far.
Every day recently, I boot my computer and there is no audio coming from the HDMI output on my graphics card(s). Device manager shows the driver as being fine, troubleshooting finds no problems, and the sound settings claims "This device is working fine". I then proceed a process of elimination. I reboot my PC and/or my AV receiver, still nothing.
So you'd probably be thinking this is an HDMI issue. Well, you'd be wrong.
I try a variety of other audio devices and outputs, and still no sound. On every occasion however, I have plugged in some USB headphones, only for the sound settings to not default to those like it has done since owning them. On two occasions this has even mocked me, by then playing audio via HDMI into my AV receiver instead.
This is not driver related, and a google search has been little to no good, as there is absolutely no information or help regarding audio besides the usual "device manager" workarounds that people like to share on YouTube, which only helps those with driver troubles, and is still only a workaround and not a genuine fix.
I suspect this is entirely beyond my control, and I shall just have to wait for Microsoft to acknowledge it and fix it? So far the several computers I've migrated to Windows 10 (friends, family, personal) have all had different issues of different annoyance levels, even if the hardware is all very similar.
Oddly enough, if I just leave my computer running for an 45 minutes or so, more often than not the audio does start working, without warning.
So, now my opinion of Windows 10 is long and complicated. It's genuinely destroyed my confidence as the computer technician and network engineer I spent tens of thousands studying, not that I claim to be either of those.