Remove HDMI Audio?

[joshzstuff]

I wish to remove the audio properties of my HDMI display cables.
Is there a way to do this by making an adapter that cuts out certain pins?

The problem: ​

I'm having problems with Audio being diverted to my monitors instead of the desired audio device.
(Windows 10 has a tendency to re-route Audio to a newly plugged in device. This has been a problem for my system.)

Solutions I've tried:​

Software:
I've already tried the Software solution of disabling all audio sources, however when Windows updates mysteriously these audio sources get re-enabled!
I've searched this topic and found a few places where people wanted to extract the Audio from HDMI.
(SPDIF- so perhaps there is a way to omit the Audio?)

DVI output:
Since DVI does not carry audio, a DVI to HDMI cable is safe from this behavior.
(Windows does not even recognize the display as a potential audio device)
Using DVI outputs from the graphics card and HDMI adapters would solve the problem, however I don't have enough.

Here is the pinout of HDMI from Wikipedia:

Compared with the pinout of DVI:
(Single link pins circled)

If you count the flat pin, This seems to be a 19pin to 19pin direct connection.
But I didn't think HDMI and DVI used the same standard.

Does anyone know of a way to disable only the pins responsible for Audio?

 

[Harald Kapp]

Afaik you cannot remove audio from HDMI by cutting wires. Audio is multiplexed into the serial data stream. An HDMI to DVI converter is a good hardware solution when manipulating the software settings fails (as in your case).

 

[joshzstuff]

Afaik you cannot remove audio from HDMI by cutting wires. Audio is multiplexed into the serial data stream. An HDMI to DVI converter is a good hardware solution when manipulating the software settings fails (as in your case).

Yes I see that you are right.
I have some converters ordered, but if these are just pin for pin connections (19 to 19 connections as shown above) Then there is really no "conversion" being done is there?

I might have to look into some other software help, hopefully not anything that makes my system less stable overall.