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Cracks and pops in audio

Suddenly my audio has crackles and pops. Maybe a coincidence but it seemed to happen after the 10/29 patch Tuesday. I reinstalled the original audio drivers from HP's web site but that made no difference. I am using the digital output from my PC to a digital input on a stereo receiver. The noise is present at 44.1 and 48K, 16 and 24 bit, and regardless of the Realtek digital volume setting. It occurs to me that I installed Replay Video Capture 5 and Replay Media Suite 5 on 11/2, I wonder if that could be the problem, I have used earlier version successfully, I will uninstall them and see if that makes a difference while I wait for some kind souls to help me out. Thank you.
example-of-audio-noise.zip

Kent Dyer

Windows XP, Vista, 7, or 8? I am assuming OEM Driver.. Have you looked on HP's site for new or updated driver?

Are you running the sound through the card or through the OS?

For example, in 7.. Click on the speaker like you are going to adjust the volume..
Click on the speaker at the top..
Go to the Advanced tab

Under Exclusive Mode:
Uncheck..
Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device
Give exclusive mode applications priority

HTH,

Kent

E. Douglas (Doug) Jensen

ASKER

Thank you. Windows 7. I am using the motherboard Realtek audio (digital out). I have installed HP's latest driver and it didn't help. Unchecked the two boxes. Clicks and pops still there. Changing from digital out to analog headphones, the noise is still there.

Doug

Robert Retzer

Try doing the windows restore, restore the system to the point before the updates were installed, to see if it makes any difference, I would also make sure that the speaker wire is plugged fully in the jack as if it is partially unplugged it can cause the poping and crackling sound.

E. Douglas (Doug) Jensen

ASKER

Unfortunately I don't have a reasonably current backup (blush...). I did confirm that the speaker connections are solid. But the speakers are connected to a receiver and I have five audio sources going into the receiver and the audio from the other four sounds fine--so it is definitely a software problem in this one PC.

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E. Douglas (Doug) Jensen

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I haven't finished working through that list yet but I'm going to thank all of you for your inputs and accept the reply from merete while I continue to troubleshoot. Worst case I am going to re-install everything from scratch on a new drive.

Merete

Hi Doug, thank you..
To just round off
did you uninstall these> I installed Replay Video Capture 5 and Replay Media Suite 5 << these will install their own drivers to optimise the features within it's own program that may cause problems with your windows drivers.
I installed FL studio from Image Line and it installed its own Asio drivers same thing pops and cracks high pitched ding ding decimal sounds.
What resolved it for me was to use Asio4all drivers/ ASIO stands for>Audio Stream Input/Output << very informative and helps explain how the software interacts with your soundcard
System Settings - Audio (ASIO4ALL)
https://www.image-line.com/support/FLHelp/html/envsettings_asio4all.htm
drivers
http://www.asio4all.com/
This may or may not relevant to these two Replay Video Capture 5 and Replay Media Suite 5 as I have not used them however it is related to audio/sound drivers compatibility
if it helps..
Troubleshooting - Audio Performance
A guide to getting rid of Clicks and Pops in your audio

Hopefully you have enough now to resolve it.
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All the best.
Merete