Laptop Sound and Mic randomly stopped working - Windows 11

[EllyMay24]

Hi,The inbuilt sound and mic of my laptop HP envy randomly stopped working. Messages are: No output devices found and no input devices found. I've tried all the obvious troubleshooting:Unable to disable muteSystem troubleshooter goes through it's process, I restart, no success.Driver updates completedWindows updates completedListed under the Sound,Video and Game controllers from the Device Manager there is only VIDIA Virtual Audio Device (wave extensible) (WDM) and my earbuds listed. Sound works via earbuds but no mic picked up.Additional to "No Input and Output devices found", I found two

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