It was 2:47 AM, and the glow of Leo’s monitor was the only light in the room. Scattered across his desk were three coffee mugs, a half-eaten bag of sour gummy worms, and a growing sense of despair.
Leo had tried everything. He’d rolled back drivers, forced-updated from Windows Update (which offered him a driver from 2009 that made things worse), and even disabled then re-enabled the card in the BIOS. Nothing.
And somewhere in the digital ether, Bluetooth_God_77 smiled.
Leo opened Settings → Bluetooth & devices. A slider appeared. He clicked it to "On."
He connected his headphones. Music played. Clean. No stutter. No dropouts.