@larand Used to be that anything above 35 Fahrenheit was tee shirt weather for me. I've grown soft.
Those goal lists for work I make after New Years are always good for a laugh when read in October.
48 degrees Fahrenheit and I'm wearing a jacket. I guess I'm finally a southerner
@matigo The only thing I can think of is there's some firmware involved and something got way out of kilter. I can't find any utilities online to reset said firmware if it exists so…the theory doesn't really have legs.
Maybe it was just a freak coincidence and the audio just blew.
Trying to think if there was some way I damaged the motherboard somehow since I removed video card earlier (It's a GTX 960, therefore huge) to put in another SATA cable for an eventual secondary drive but I had audio afterwards.
Insert shrug here
@matigo When it was supposed to play the little bongo drum thing, there was a loud brrrrrap then nothing. Go back to Windows and there's nothing but static and popping from both the headphones and the rear connection.
Not sure if there's some firmware thing involved or what but removing the device and drivers, allowing Windows to reinstall drivers and me manually adding Realtek HD audio drivers did nothing.
I just ordered a Sound Blaster PCIe card. It'll be here Friday. Not fooling with it anymore. In the meantime, my Logitech wireless USB headset will suffice.
Logitech wireless USB headset is fine and I have one PCIe slot available so….Sound Blaster PCIe card will be here Friday. Not messing with it anymore.
Would love to know how the Ubuntu Live thing actually managed to scramble the onboard audio enough that it stopped working.
Not sure if it did something to firmware or not but nothing I have tried so far has fixed the problem.
Decided to do the Ubuntu Live thing from memory stick. Boot back into Windows 10 when done.Audio is broken. Nothing but pops and static from headphones and speakers.
Not happy.
And that was in 2011 and I totally forgot all about it. I am losing my damned mind.