Monitor Speakers keep changing.

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  • September 22, 2018 at 10:24 pm #26261
    SpedleySpedley
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      I’ve setup a keypress to switch between sound inputs but my monitor speakers often come up as a different device.  Is there a way I can stop this, it is very annoying.

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      September 23, 2018 at 2:59 pm #26291
      RichardRichard
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        I did have this trouble a while back after most updates when the PC would come up with no working sound. For some reason windows assumed that the video card with HDMI output was preferred rather than the sound card to which the speakers were attached. I cannot now remember what I did to stop this errant action but it has not happened in a year or two. Perhaps you should  see if there is some setting related to the preferred sound system that could be used to prevent windows making its own self selection. There is for printers, where Windows can be set to chose its preferred output device – another total pain for the unwary.

        September 24, 2018 at 12:02 pm #26336
        Wheels-Of-FireWheels-Of-Fire
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          Need a bit more info Spedley.

          Im taking it that you are setting your monitor speakers as an OUTPUT device but are they connected to your sound card output or are they using sound over HDMI via your video card ?

          How did you set up the keyboard shortcut by the way ?

          September 24, 2018 at 5:01 pm #26356
          Ed PEd P
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            I think that keyboard short-cuts work on the ‘default’ hardware. Perhaps you need to double check that you have set appropriate defaults.

            September 24, 2018 at 7:49 pm #26359
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              I was thinking that the Windows auto detect routines for the sound card ports may be involved so if you connect that way I will look into it ?

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