[Elecraft] Windows Update and the K3 USB Audio

[Steve Glickstein]

Rich, my experience is that even with USB devices plugged in, major 
updates to my Win10 Pro system scramble various port assignments for 
comm and audio. I keep a document on my hard drive with the a port 
assignment list so I can restore them and run my ham software without 
any hiccups.

73, Steve W4FMD


On 7/30/2019 2:13 PM, Rich wrote:
> I am sure many will be required to update Win10 to the supported 
> version.  I think 10/19 is the drop dead date on the current version 
> for support, not exactly sure.
>
> Any who,  I did mine yesterday and of course it hosed up my nicely 
> labeled Codec audio entries in the Windows Sound Control Panel. It was 
> not hard to get back in business and rename them, but as a note to 
> others it recognized mine as Mono audio devices, hence I needed to 
> change them manually to a stereo device (2 channel is the windows 
> term) in the Sound Control Panel.
>
> My K3s was not connected to the computer USB when I did the update.   
> I am now curious if this issue would be resolved if the K3 USB was 
> indeed plugged into the computer during the update.  I am going to try 
> it during the next update.
>
> I hope this may save some others,  some pain during the update process
>
> Rich
>
> K3RWN
>
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