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Audio keeps popping

DaronMal

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My audio keeps popping, I downloaded DPC Latency Checker and it confirms something's messing with it and causing the clicks, I've disabled almost everything trying to find what was doing it but nothing helps. It's driving my god damn insane with the popping now. Is there any way to figure out what driver it is? Or a work-around?
 


My guess is check for damage on the wires or speakers or whatever audio it is. It could be your motherboard audio is going out (That may not be it though), you can always try purchasing a sound card, or try a different audio system. What are you using for audio?
 


The weird thing is that the popping is really inconsistent, sometimes it never does it, sometimes it never stops. I've figured out its either my audio driver or my network driver, as soon as I enabled my audio driver I got a spike or two, but when I enabled my network driver it's almost all spikes now. My PC is pretty old and I actually just build a new one and it's coming in soon.

Audio driver: Conexant SmartAudio HD
Network driver: Realtek PCIe PBE Family Controller
 


My guess is that the drivers don't support eachother that well and that is what is causing the popping possibly.
 


Im going to try to check for updates for them both.