High definition audio controller giving me the code 10

[OSFirstMaker]

I have a 13 year old ASUS laptop (K73SV) and a WD SSD. Whenever I try installing any sort of Windows OS onto the SSD in the laptop, the high definition audio controller always reports code 10. I have tried:Installing a Realtek audio driverInstalling an intel chipset from the official ASUS website for the modelUninstalling and re-installing the deviceAnd none of them worked. However, the windows 11 OS that I currently use has a working high definition audio controller and I have no idea why. Is there any way to fix this?

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