Device drivers enable the computer hardware in a Dell PC to communicate with the operating system and the installed software. The sound card -- the component responsible for outputting audio through ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: About every 3 weeks my audio does not work. I have Windows 11 after Microsoft upgraded me to 11. Now audio ...

So I got a new workstation for the office. Yay! A nice new machine for Christmas (sort of). I installed Windows 8.1 (clean install from Microsoft ISO) on this new Optiplex 9020 and installed all the ...

Just in case anyone else runs across this issue, I have just spent a few hours trying to figure it out as well. For the OptiPlex 9020 I was using it turned out that the front audio connector was ...