Thanks fireberd! That worked! I did the RealTek uninstall just as you said--and thank you for specifying NOT to uninstall the driver. When I restarted the system did a device reinstall. Thanks again for your help. This had been making me totally crazy.
It sounds as though you think...
I was having problems reconnecting a bluetooth speaker for my Acer desktop with windows 8.1 OS so tried disabling the default RealTek HD Audio. Now it doesn't show up as a speaker--only my bluetooth speaker that it says is disconnected show. When I look at my device manager it is there, and...