In case anyone is interested, I got this resolved. Solution is in Audio not working with Realtek Drivers on Windows 10 - Windows 10 Support

I have also tried that to no avail. I uninstalled all drivers from the device manager and then installed the driver from the disk that came with my motherboard. It simply re-installed the Realtek...

About a week ago, I discovered that the audio on my PC wasn't working. My speakers have a volume knob and I keep them turned off 90% of the time so I don't know how long this has actually been a...