Posted on 10/15/2018 10:41:21 AM PDT by dayglored
...Probably because Microsoft has accidentally disabled your audio
Somebody got a little trigger happy with the big red Windows Update button last week as a broken Intel audio driver was unleashed on users “by mistake”.
It has been a hellish couple of weeks for the Windows giant following the launch of the troubled October update for its flagship operating system. Not content with Display Audio issues, mysterious file deletions and borking HP computers thanks to a “known incompatibility” with drivers for an obscure bit of hardware (aka the “keyboard”), it seems audio is next in the firing line.
Last week's Windows 10 update quickly attracted ire from users.
@MicrosoftHelps After Win 10 update.. my HP Laptop saying "No Audio Output Device Installed" Troubleshoot sounds and Device Manager not helping @HPSupport — Srinivas S (@srini_sateesh) October 12, 2018
The issue was an updated driver, taking the Intel Audio Controller to version 9.21.0.3755, which left some users shouting on social media while their PCs remained stubbornly silent.
As a sad-faced engineer in a high-visibility vest reset the “days without a Windows Update incident” clock back to zero, Microsoft rapidly pulled the update to work out what was happening.
According to the software giant, the Intel driver was “incorrectly pushed to devices via Windows Update” and advice was published on manually rolling back the borked update.
Microsoft pushed out an update to fix the broken update for version 1709, 1803 and 1809 of Windows 10 over the weekend in the form of KB4468550. Some users, however, may believe that letting the Windows Update bull loose in their OS china shop to glue back together what it broke last time may be a step too far.
Microsoft is to be commended for its swift action in identifying and dealing with the problem. This does not, however, excuse the pushing out of code via Windows Update that, once again, left a portion of users with broken computers. We’ve contacted Microsoft to find out how this driver found its way into the update package and will update when we get a response. ®
Thank you, good to know.
I bought this one just as they were rolling out 10.
I blocked it from “upgrading”.
Windows 7 in a VM.
Oh, so that was the driver update that I dumped in favor of running a fast scan with that Driver Booster software I’ve been running on all of our ‘puters.
Only box in the place that’s running W10 is Grandma’s laptop and about one more of these [CLUSTER****] from Redmond and I’ll change that to Linux.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice.....
Step daughter got a brand new Lenovo laptop. Turned it on and connected to WiFi. It went through it’s setup stuff which included downloading and installing updates. Black screen of death...had to send it back to get a new pre loaded hard drive.
So did I, BUT, with updates turned off it updated itself to Windows 10 last week!
Amen, preach it!
A pity you didn’t know about Steve Gibson’s Never 10. A tiny free program that would have prevented that.
https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
Loving Win 10, for me it’s the most stable OS MS has ever released. Run my company on it across devices.
The creators update disabled audio on my HP zeon workstation ,, when I finally got it working again the front audio connections are not found... still not working .. Thanks MS.
I’ve been gleefuly, joyfully and obnoxiously laughing at all these wondoz problems for the last fifteen years or so. Happily running Linux all that time.
I just LOVE reading these M$/Windoz threads, esp the ones with “help me, Windoz screwed up again” type of problems. Yeah, I’m a techie but most of my problems with Linux are based on something *I* did rather than Linux.
Linux Mint 17 right now, but I just downloaded Mint 19 and will load it on my laptop first to see if I like it. First thing I did with the laptop was shrink the Windoz 8.1 partition and install Linux on it to dual boot. I think I’m gonna just rip the HD out of it and do full Mint 19 install on a new, bigger HD.
And I’ll just keep laughing at the “Windoz screwed me again” threads.
In my office, I was one of the first to get 10 about a year ago. It has been an average of about 2 updates to 10 per week. It has been an average of 6 or 7 updates to other software that depends on the OS.
I come in at 6:30. I often can do nothing productive until 9 am.
And W/10 has been the most stable and problem-free OS I ever really used much, including Linux distros, thanks be to God.
Just schedule updates to run after hours so won’t be a problem while you’re using your computer. Very easy. Go to “Change Active Hours” (just type it in at start screen).
Win 10 rocks.
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