
Maybe they report success and silently fail? exe installers' drivers, Realtek, and Cirrus behind the scenes, without letting them install anything. It's possible that windows is denying the. This makes me believe that Windows 8.1 might have an issue with certain drivers, deeming them unusable in some way. "Windows has determined the driver software for your device is up to date." If I skip #'s 4 and 5, and browse directly for the driver files, Windows reports that the Driver software is already up to date. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for 圆4-based systems."

" the folder you specified doesn't contain a compatible software driver for your device. inf fileĪt this point windows complains that the driver does not support Windows 圆4, despite having "圆4" written all over it. Select "Let me pick from a list of device drivers"Ĭlick "Have Disk." and navigate to the. Select High Definition Audio Controller from Device Manager I've tried manually installing the Cirrus Audio driver by performing the following: (I've tried nearly every link I've found)Įvery executable runs and reports success, however, I don't see any sign of a change apart from the Realtek driver copying files somewhere in Program Files, and the Intel driver blanking the screen a few times.

(No errors are reported, "installs" a variety of sound drivers)

Most solutions I've found say drivers need to be reinstalled (downloaded from the internet or simpliy re-run from the Bootcamp support drivers) and I've currently tried the following:
