Question Small audio delay on my Pavilion Laptop

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I recently started having problems with my Audio on my HP Pavilion laptop. There is a small delay (2 seconds) before anything (for example a video) is audible. It's not the case where the audio is behind, the audio actually cuts in after the delay, which makes watching YouTube or listening to music a bit less enjoyable... This happens on both the internal speakers and on the headphone jack. I have Realtek drivers for my audio. I have already tried updating/reinstalling the drivers, but that didn't solve the problem.

Microsoft's HD Audio drivers work alright, but there's this weird popping sound before anything plays or stops, which is just as annoying, and they don't sound as good.

Does anyone know of a solution to this? Thanks!

 

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Update: The problem has gone from sound delay to not having sound at all with the Realtek drivers. I try to play a test tone, and I now get the error shown below. What do I do now?