A reboot did the trick. My apologies on behalf of Microsoft. Lately I have noticed, when they want to upgrade your Windows 10, they start making your computer behave weird, and then you go to reboot, and bam, they are upgrading you Windows 10.
This just happened here. So I am passed that hurdle, down to hopefully the last one: Now I have the audio card device being recognized, and no longer greyed out. Now I can play a song, and the zone associated with the audio card is showing animation of music playing.
BUT, alas, no sound comes out of the PC. At the same time, any other music or sound producing application on the PC plays it’s music perfectly: youtube, foobar2000, any of the video players.
Do I have some device setting wrong? Which mixer should I be using?
Thanks,
Goran