Boot Camp was up-to-date (or as up-to-date as possible running on this 12-inch MacBook) and all the device drivers were up-to-date. I went through the same song and dance for the next few days trying to isolate and figure out why this was happening.

I proceeded to reboot in macOS Big Sur, tested the audio (it was working fine) and then rebooted into Windows 10 Pro and audio was working fine.

The next day, I ran into the same issue where audio again was not working in Windows 10 Pro (Boot Camp). After the reboot, audio was working fine in Windows 10 Pro. I proceeded to reboot the computer but this time, booting back into Windows 10 Pro (Boot Camp).

At the time I was still running macOS Big Sur.Īfter rebooting, I tested audio in macOS Big Sur and audio was working fine so clearly the issue wasn’t a hardware issue but something Boot Camp, software or driver-related. I then decided to reboot again but this time into macOS. Again, no audio using earphones and no audio using the speakers. Since I had recently connected earphones to the MacBook via the 3.5mm jack, I decided to check to make sure there wasn’t an issue with the 3.5mm jack. I decided to give the MacBook a reboot and booted back into Windows 10 Pro (Boot Camp). Everything appeared to be fine however, there was no audio. I checked the audio settings in Windows 10 Pro and made sure the proper output device was selected and audio was not muted. I then tried playing audio and video clips and again, no audio. I then tried Microsoft Teams and again, audio wasn’t working. I did some troubleshooting but just couldn’t get the audio to work. One day, I needed to get on an audio call using Slack and realized audio wasn’t working. It’s a base model 12-inch MacBook with an Intel 1.1GHz Dual Core Intel Core m3 processor with 8GB RAM and 256GB of flash storage currently running macOS Monterey natively and the latest version of Windows 10 Pro in Boot Camp. Performance isn’t great but it gets the job done. I’ve been running Boot Camp on my Early-2016 12-inch MacBook for almost two years and it has worked well enough for my specific use case.

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