blue snowball drivers windows 10 download

Windows 8.1 advised that my Blue Snowball microphone was now installed correctly and was working. Windows suggested moving it to a USB 2 slot. When I clicked that, it advised that although it had detected my Blue Snowball microphone, it said this was an old USB device and would not work properly in a USB 3 slot on my computer. I double-clicked on it and there was a button marked “Troubleshoot”. Well, at least that was something different. I looked under the Windows 8 “Devices and Printers” where the Blue Snowball was detected before and had been showing as installed correctly, but this time it had a yellow triangle on it! Lo and behold, my microphone was being picked up as a device… but still not usable. So, I thought “What have I got to lose?”. I remembered using an ASIO driver website called ASIO4ALL in the past, many years ago. It also was running from an ASIO driver… presumably auto-installed by Windows 8. I discovered the microphone was detected as a C-Media device. In frustration, I decided to go through all the information in the Device Manager about this microphone. It always showed correctly installed under Devices and Printers: I even tried uninstalling it in the Device Manager and reinstalling it several times, but that didn’t help.

It worked once for one hour, but not again after that. I tried it in different ports and unplugged it and plugged it in many times. Even when I used Skype, it would list the Blue Snowball, but it was greyed out and not selectable.

When I plugged in my Snowball, Windows 8 would detect it and set it up as a USB microphone, but when I went into Sound Recording options, it was not listed as a microphone to set as a device. Well, I’ve never had mine plugged in upside down. I’ve Googled around but the only answers seem to pertain to turning the plug upside down and plugging it into the microphone the correct way. I have had problems getting my Blue Snowball microphone to work on Windows 8.

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