[Elecraft] Windows Update and the K3 USB Audio

[Rich]

Thanks that is good to know.

Rich

On 7/30/2019 18:11 PM, Steve Glickstein wrote:
> 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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