I have a Blue Snowball microphone. It works great on my ASUS notebook that runs Win10 and a much older Dell Latitude that runs Win/XP. And the same microphone used to work without any problem on my Dell XPS 8900 running Win 10 Home.At some point something gone awry with Win10 on the XPS 8900 being able to accept the Snowball. I do not know when this started. I am getting some error messages which might help.On the XPS 8900, I go to the Win10 device manager, select the Blue Snowball and uninstall it. I have it unplugged at this point.
I then restart the computer. When it comes up, I plug in the Snowball.Once I log in, I right-click the sound icon in the icon tray of the task bar. From this I select 'Recording devices'.The 'Sound' dialog appears. Hi and Welcome to the Forum.Have you tried running the built in tool to fix audio playback issues, or audio recording issues?Just type fix audio in your search/Cortana field and the top two results are worth trying.Also, it might be worth going to manufacture website of this Blue Snowball to see whether they offer any newer drivers to work with Windows 10.I use a Logitech mic, on an older computer using IDT Codecs.
The latest drivers for that don't appear to work so well in Windows 10, but after choosing to update drivers via Device Manager, and saying let me pick one, I swapped it to Microsoft's HD Audio Device, and while this is not perfect, the volume levels work now, where previously they did not.It may be as simple as using a default Microsoft driver instead of Blue Snowball ones that will get things working for you. Do check the manufacturer site though.Regards,Regedit32. I should add that last fall (approx August 2016), this Dell XPS 8900 running Win10Home was working with the Blue Snowball without any problem. We were using the Snowball to do voice recordings.
So, this is case where the Win10 or the XPS 8900 has lost the ability to see/connect-to the Snowball. I do not know when things stopped working.Win10Home has been the only OS on this computer; this was not an upgrade from another OS or prior Windows version. I've only had this issue on this one computer. My other systems work with the Snowball and there are no problems.
Okay, I tried 'fix audio' and this led me to discover that there is no working audio on this Dell XPS 8900. However there used to be. It used to play just fine, sending audio up the HDMI connection to our TV, which is the monitor for this computer.Next, I plugged in a Logitech USB headphone/mic set that I use all the time on my Win10 ASUS notebook. I found that this goes down the same path above as the Snowball experienced. I get the 'device not migrated' at the same point where above I saw it for the Snowall. Down in the 'Logitech USB Headset H340 Perperties' window's 'Events' tab.As a simple test, I tried playing things on youtube.com and got nothing.
Blue Snowball Driver Windows 10
Whether attempting external speakers or HDMI to the TV or to a headset - nothing makes a peep when connected.From this I realize it is not a problem with the Snowball. Somehow this XPS 8900 / Win10 has no clue how to play or record. It was fully able to do so a couple months ago but at some point thereafter something has gone wrong.