Windows 10 Lost Sound to my Headset

[Huntn]

Disclaimer, this is on a Windows homebuilt PC, not a Mac, but this seems to be the best forum here to discuss this.

"Windows powered PC is viable". I said this today in another forum post and tonight I'm having to Reset Windows 10 while the MS Gods are laughing at me s u c k e r! This kind of crap never happens on my Mac (knock on wood).

I lost sound to my headset, after having sound today, I lost sound in one earpiece of my headset, swapped headsets and lost all sound to my headset. If I switch the settings, sound comes out my monitor so I know sound is being generated. I have multiple cables, multiple headsets, which I swapped around, plugging into both the front and back jacks, and my audio drivers are up to date. I used the trouble shooter using the sound Control panel, and it found nothing. When I right click on my realtek audio in the sound CP, it acts like it's working properly. Thee is a sound bar that goes up and down, which I don't hear in my headset, but can hear on my monitor (when I have sound turned on there).

Any ideas? I'm finishing up the PC reset and crossing my fingers this will fix the issue.

 

[Huntn]

Update: 4 hours later after resetting my Windows 10 PC, an automated process, I once again have sound in my headset, and a hundred apps I have to reinstall manually. So some want to know why we use Macs.

Any ideas about a less painful way to have accomplished this?

 

[wardie]

Update: 4 hours later after resetting my Windows 10 PC, an automated process, I once again have sound in my headset, and a hundred apps I have to reinstall manually. So some want to know why we use Macs.

Any ideas about a less painful way to have accomplished this?

Restore to a backup where it was working

 

[S.B.G]

Yup. Restore from backup.

The very best backup software I've used for Windows was VEEAM Agent.

https://www.veeam.com/windows-endpoint-server-backup-free.html

It's free too. I've used paid apps that sucked ass but VEEAM was always rock solid for me. I also use their enterprise software at work to backup all of our virtual machines and it's also wonderful.

 

[Huntn]

Restore to a backup where it was working

Yup. Restore from backup.

The very best backup software I've used for Windows was VEEAM Agent.

https://www.veeam.com/windows-endpoint-server-backup-free.html

It's free too. I've used paid apps that sucked ass but VEEAM was always rock solid for me. I also use their enterprise software at work to backup all of our virtual machines and it's also wonderful.

Thanks guys! And I had True image installed. SBG, your comment is fortuitous, because the new version of True Image has gone to a subscription scheme which seems to be a trend in PC utility software. I really liked Tuneup Utilities, until they went to a subscription model. I’m currently using System Mechanic, but don’t like it as much. It does cost less, but is also a subscription.

 

[Huntn]

Yup. Restore from backup.

The very best backup software I've used for Windows was VEEAM Agent.

https://www.veeam.com/windows-endpoint-server-backup-free.html

It's free too. I've used paid apps that sucked ass but VEEAM was always rock solid for me. I also use their enterprise software at work to backup all of our virtual machines and it's also wonderful.

I visited Veeam.com's site and this seems to be something they don't really advertise, their free version.

 

[S.B.G]

I visited Veeam.com's site and this seems to be something they don't really advertise, their free version.

Yeah, it's not highly advertised, but it's there.

 

[Huntn]

Yeah, it's not highly advertised, but it's there.

I was looking at their subscriptions rate, not cheap for their paid service. How long have you been using them? I'm registered, but don't even have a password, none was required.

I've installed it and just created a recovery media on a blank CD I provided. Do you have any idea if this disk will auto run? I'm wondering if I need to have the bios set to look for a boot volume on the CD Drive first? I may have it that way but it's been so long I've forgotten.

My intent is not to bombard you with questions at this point, but here are a few.

• Do you know if there is a guide for free users of their products?
• Does this program run in the background? I double clicked it and got a message that the Veeam Agent for Windows is already running. Trying to figure out how to look at the setting interface. I just need C to be backed up, and I don't want a reaccuring backup, just when I tell it too.

Tonight before I go to be I'll see how tough it is to setup a backup of my C drive. On my *cough* gaming PC, that's all I really need to protect. I have other local and cloud backup schemes for important game files. I'll report back, so far so good.
Thanks again!

 

[S.B.G]

I was looking at their subscriptions rate, not cheap for their paid service. How long have you been using them? I'm registered, but don't even have a password, none was required.

I've installed it and just created a recovery media on a blank CD I provided. Do you have any idea if this disk will auto rum? I'm wondering if I need to have the bios set to look for a boot volume on the CD Drive first? I may have it that way but it's been so long I've forgotten.

My intent is not to bombard you with questions at this point, but here are a few.

• Do you know if there is a guide for free users of their products?
• Does this program run in the background? I double clicked it and got a message that the Veeam Agent for Windows is already running. Trying to figure out how to look at the setting interface. I just need C to be backed up, and I don't want a reaccuring backup, just when I tell it too.

Tonight before I go to be I'll see how tough it is to setup a backup of my C drive. On my *cough* gaming PC, that's all I really need to protect. I have other local and cloud backup schemes for important game files. I'll report back, so far so good.
Thanks again!

Here is the man page.

It's been a while since I've actually used this version. I've been on Mac and Linux for a long time. However, I just rebuilt my Windows PC today and will load VEEAM on it tomorrow afternoon. I'll get back in there then and see what I remember to answer your other questions.

 

[Huntn]

Here is the man page.

It's been a while since I've actually used this version. I've been on Mac and Linux for a long time. However, I just rebuilt my Windows PC today and will load VEEAM on it tomorrow afternoon. I'll get back in there then and see what I remember to answer your other questions.

Thanks. As far as Veeam running in the background, I discovered that since I “reset” W10, it now by default on install, seems to making every program set to start on startup, or maybe that is just a function of the program installers instead. I went to Settings/Apps/Startup and turned a bunch off.

 

[Huntn]

Here is the man page.

It's been a while since I've actually used this version. I've been on Mac and Linux for a long time. However, I just rebuilt my Windows PC today and will load VEEAM on it tomorrow afternoon. I'll get back in there then and see what I remember to answer your other questions.

I finally looked at your attachment and this is just what I needed. Thanks again. I'm setting up a backup of my C drive, would like a stand alone full backup to be kept until I delete it. As a rule I don't do incremental backups, but keep 3 full backups around and delete the oldest when I create a new one.

I am a little confused about the Back-up Retention policy. I'm looking at the manual, and during the job setup, on the page where I set the local storage, there is a little window that says: Keep backups for blank days, where you select how many days (excluding days with no backups). As far as Veeam is concerned, I want to keep a backup until I delete it so this window is confusing to me. I can set the number of days to keep up to a max of 730 days, which I don't need, but i'm operating on the principle of a permanent backup. Any thoughts on this?

Under schedule I've unchecked the periodic backup option. And I see that after I have finished setting up the job, under the Job Title, I can select Standalone Full backup, so maybe I did not have to set the number of days to keep a backup (previously mentioned) because that does not apply for a Standalone Full Backup.

FYI, after I selected Standalone Full Backup, I was asked to enter my Administrator password, and saw a cancel button, by the C Drive job, but no progress. When I clicked on the area where the cancel button was, and that part opened up and now I can see that the job is being processed.

There are 300GB on my C drive. When it's finished I'll be interested to see how big the backup is. Will report back later.

 

[Huntn]

I finished up my backup, 300 GB turned into approximately a 180GB file. So far so good!

 

[S.B.G]

I finished up my backup, 300 GB turned into approximately a 180GB file. So far so good!

Sounds like you have the hang of it. Are there any outstanding questions you have that I might help with?

 

[S.B.G]

I just ran VEEAM on my Alienware box for the first time after a fresh build today. Windows is fully updated and Steam is installed with a few games. I set up a SMB share on my FreeNAS server with a dedicated dataset for backups and it worked perfectly the first time though.

It took just under 12 minutes to do a full backup of about 48 GB altogether. It was cool to watch the Ethernet metrics on the Alienware get saturated at 1 Gbps. I've been thinking about this lately and I may have a project for next year, build a 10 Gbps LAN. That'll mean a new switch, new cabling and new 10 Gbps cards for everything. Just wish I had gigabit WAN.

The FreeNAS server handled it with ease and of the 32 GB RAM inside, it used 29 GB during the backup and cruised right along just fine.

 

[Huntn]

Sounds like you have the hang of it. Are there any outstanding questions you have that I might help with?

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it. It looks like when you have a saved job, there is a button there to recover, but I’m not sure how to use the recovery media.

It’s been a long time since I’ve looked at the bios. I assume, that I need to have it set so that it looks at the DVD drive on bootup first, or is there a way to hit some keys during start to tell it to look at the dvd drive for a bootable system?

 

[S.B.G]

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it. It looks like when you have a saved job, there is a button there to recover, but I’m not sure how to use the recovery media.

It’s been a long time since I’ve looked at the bios. I assume, that I need to have it set so that it looks at the DVD drive on bootup first, or is there a way to hit some keys during start to tell it to look at the dvd drive for a bootable system?

Most BIOS/UEFI have an option to change the boot device at startup. It's different for every manufacturer. Just watch the splash screen at the bottom for which button it is. Usually, it's F12 for a temporary boot order change. Or to get into BIOS it's F2 or DEL typically.

 

[S.B.G]

Just a testament to VEEAM to relay here. Yesterday a professional friend called with a problem with his Quickbooks on his personal PC. I told him to bring it by the office and we'd have a look at it. He is by no means tech-savvy at all and depends on people who know what they're doing to help with his tech needs.

A couple of years ago he brought me the same PC to give it a tune-up if you will. I cleaned up Windows, got it all up-to-date and I installed VEEAM on it. I created a boot media drive on a USB flash device and set him up with an external USB SSD for VEEAM to send the backups to.

I haven't heard from him in most of the past couple of years until recently when our paths crossed again. When he brought the PC in yesterday I was pleased to see that the computer was running fine and that the VEEAM backups were still occurring on the regular schedule I set up for it.

VEEAM is a solid Windows backup program.

Also, his Quickbooks problem was easily resolved in a minute. The program somehow forgot where to look in the directory for his files and we restored that for him.