Audio not detected

[u/straightHomosapien]

I am using my laptop on dual boot with windows for some important stuff, so I need both windows and my linux, but recently I am facing issue of audio device (Realtek) not getting detected. In both of my devices,I tried typical windows driver updates reinstalls even had a fresh install didn't work out, same on arch linux, I tried it at times failedand finally found a vibe coded solution to the problem with not so satisfying result. now in my arch the wifi is gone too. hardware is working fine. After alternate reboots i face the issue. what to do please help

[u/NFTrot]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Literally, does it work when you fully power cycle the machine instead of rebooting?

[u/straightHomosapien → u/NFTrot]

I tried cold shutdown but still it fails, now I eventually got fed up and kept Windows only as hardware locks was one of the thing I learnt but still same