Mech 17 GP3

I recently picked up a bare bones Mech 17 with the 14900 HX and 4090. All went pretty smoothly except for the sound. For the life of me, I can't get it right. I've got to the point where ask the hardware is detected, drivers are installed etc, but I get no audio out from the speakers from any application. I dont get the Win11 startup chime or anything.

Interesting thing is, if I uninstall Nahimic, uninstall the hardware, delete the drivers as Device Manager does so, restart and have it redetect the hardware, I'll get audio output from the speakers, but the OS installs the generic sound driver for the Intel High Definition Audio hardware. Sounds absolutely horrible honestly.

For the life of me I'm pretty sure there's a conflict here, but unsure what to do or how to go about troubleshooting it further. The text files that go with the OEM drivers aren't very helpful. Any ideas?