I have 2 Speakers devices in Sound panel

What's up with that?

Here's device manager. Just one.


Which one can I disable/remove?

What I'm really trying to diagnose is why a certain program fails to play any audio after the computer sleeps then wakes up (but kind of sporadically).
I have to do a repair-install of the program just to get the sound playback working again. Very odd.
Though it didn't used to be this way. Weird stuff started after a crash/bluescreen followed by all the usual chkdsk sfc dism magic.

Something's fishy. Thoughts?


Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19044.2130]

HD audio device is Microsoft generic audio driver, which means that you didn't install your audio driver.

Most computers have a 2nd audio device which is your graphics card audio driver when you use hdmi cable which also carries audio signal.

It all started when I thought I'd solve my problems by running an automatic driver update software...

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So which one do I set as default?

blksith0 said:

It all started when I thought I'd solve my problems by running an automatic driver update software...

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So which one do I set as default?

What software did you use?

Some AVG garbage.

I ended up downloading the latest available dell audio drivers (which were windows 8, but hey it works) and installing those.