Windows 10 Still having sound issues...

[MikeHawthorne]

Hi

Just when I thought I had everything fixed Windows forced me to update my sound drivers again.
I couldn't find any way to stop it, it showed that what it was updating was my Sound Blaster drivers.

In the previous build I could tell it not to update those drivers but I don't see that option In this version.

I tried restoring the sound the way I did before, by uninstalling my sound card in Device Manager and then rebooting.

Only this time it didn't recognise my sound card and reinstall it.

When I tried to run the Creative software install it said it didn't detect the sound card either.

I used my system Image and restore my computer to before it updated.

Now everything is working again but I don't want to have to keep doing this.

I don't know why my SB Audigy PCIe sound card won't work if the drivers are updated but its been this way since I first had this issue when updating to Windows 8.1.

It does the same thing if I update the drivers directly from Creative Labs.

My last option is to get a non Creative sound card and maybe that will stop the problems.

If anyone has any idea how I can stop Windows 10 from forcing me to update let me know, it really seems that Windows should let you run the drivers that you want for your devices.

I know I'm not the only one with this problem, when I installed W8.1 I found a bunch of people complaining about the same thing.

Mike

 

[davehc]

They seem to have missed out the option in the "settings" ,Mike. But if you go the legacy path, ie.. open the old Control Panel - System - Advanced System settings - Hardware Tab. There you will find the option to allow you to choose what to do with driver software.

 

[MikeHawthorne]

Hi Dave.

Ok, I've done that, we'll just have to wait and see what happens now.
If I could just get past this problem everything else is working fine.

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I finally found that my Power Plan which tells my computer to go to sleep after 20 minutes of inactivity doesn't seem to do anything, but I found another place, "Tell your computer when to sleep" or something like that, that does the same thing using one of the standard plans.

We'll see if that works.

Mike