Recent content by The111

I already ruled out the AVR as the problem (mentioned upthread), I connected my PC to a different output device with a different HDMI cable and got the same behavior. The culprit is within the envelope of my PC, hardware or software.

Thanks, but I am aware of that tradeoff and not concerned about it. Every AVR I've owned has been replaced long before failure, and many of these I lived in a house that never went below 85F in the summers, and I left them on 24/7. My new house never goes above 72F, and I don't even like this...

Well, Kapersky was not the culprit afterall. I still don't know who the culprit is, but I think this article that I linked earlier may have misled me somewhat and got me into a (different) bad state. That article advises setting both of the services (1) Windows Audio and (2) Window Audio...

Yeah I'll probably do that. For many years I didn't use AV at all (and ironically in those years I was doing a lot of things where I probably needed it). Today I don't really need it, but I figured it can't hurt to use it anyway. This thread disproved that notion. MS defender is not quite as...

Update: I am 99% sure this was a side effect of having Kapersky AV installed. What a massive PITA. The next few days will help verify that theory.

Update, it somehow has something to do with this: Redirecting If I follow the instructions in that post and then reboot both devices, sometimes the audio is detected and works. Sometimes not. Sometimes, even weirder. The state I am in right now makes absolutely no sense. If the receiver is...

Well, we can remove the receiver and the HDMI cable from the suspect list. I connected the video card directly to my TV, using a different cable. Still no audio device found. So if it is hardware related, it's either the PCI interface or the video card. I'm ruling out the former, since there's...

True, I noticed that I got some updates on the 9th when I looked through the update history, but I didn't think it sounded related to drivers. Regardless, I just reinstalled the ASUS chipset driver... no luck. Why do you think it is related to the chipset? Ok, that is a new one to me, and the...

Unfortunately I'm already using that one. It was 3/29 when I installed Win11 and updated all my drivers from ASUS. I saved the install files for reference too (I'm ridiculously detailed like that). So, things were working ok with that driver for several days before they started getting flaky...

Thanks for the suggestion, I should have mentioned that I tried that already earlier. Just tried again for good measure, output (a lie) below.

I could have told you what mobo I have (ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E), I built this machine myself as I've done with all my machines for the past 25 years. But I will paste a Speccy screenshot below. I am not concerned about the unknown devices in device manager, they were all there: a) When I...

My system: Windows 11 23H2 Nvidia 3080 FE Denon AVR-S960H receiver connected to HDMI output from vid card I used all of this hardware before with Win 10 for years with no issues. I installed Win 11 a few weeks ago, and for a while it was working fine. But then the HDMI audio started getting...