If your audio broke recently, and you’re running Windows 10 version 1803 or above, please check to see if the incorrect driver was installed. After receiving reports from users that their audio no longer works, we immediately removed it and started investigating. He writes:Īn Intel audio driver was incorrectly pushed to devices via Windows Update for a short period of time earlier this week. If you don’t trust Windows Update, you can also follow the instructions below.īleeping Computer brought this to our attention, but the official details come straight from Matthew van Eerde, a Senior Software Engineer on Microsoft’s Windows team. Which means that you should be able to check for updates and it will be fixed once the new patch is installed. Update: Microsoft has released a new patch to resolve the problem. Windows Update KB4468550 now removes the driver automatically from systems that received it incorrectly.

If your PC suddenly can’t play audio, here’s how to fix it. Earlier this week, Microsoft released a buggy Intel audio driver that broke the sound on some PCs.

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