Hi,
I have a question. I posted something about this last week, but i had no replies so i thought id try again.
Im experiencing an issue with my pc, that is persisting through different motherboards and windows versions.
The issue that im experiencing is that my sound makes a popping sound when i suddenly stop audio.
Since i bought my pc for audio editing, it basically makes it useless for the past 5 weeks. It is driving me insane and im getting desperate.
The problem started after i fixed some issues withing my PC. This was my first ever PC build, so i made a mistake with placing my ram. I placed it in the A1 and B1 slots instead of the A2 B2 slots. This caused my pc to always start in a bios forced safe mode setting. I was able to use my pc perfectly apart from the occasional performance issue withing ableton. This issue also caused my pc to sometimes take a long time to boot, because of this safemode posting issue. So after troubleshooting this safe mode issue, i found out that it was caused by my ram somehow. So i repositioned my RAM modules, and the safe mode problem went away. Also the weird performance issues went away. Then i tried to work in Ableton again and all of a sudden i get this weird popping sound when i start or stop audio. (like a jack being plugged in to a live amp etc. Really loud snapping/clicking sound) I have since been trying to fix this issue with no luck.
It somehow sounds as if a driver is causing the issue. The loud clicks happen also if my audio interface gets recognized, or when i use my hdmi audio/motherboard headphone amp and random system messages/sounds get played. These have about 2-500ms lag between they show and when they pop in with a clicking sound. The issue im having with thinking its driver related, is that i cant solve the issue.. clean installs, driver updates, driver replacements etc.All with no succes.
I also tried booting with onboard graphics and removing my gpu, with no luck. Problem persists.
After this i read that the issue might have been related to my chipset, so as the newbie i am, i bought a new Motherboard, experiencing this issue from the first clean install i made.
Now after everything im starting to fear its either an issue i cant seem to find within windows, or an hardware related issue that i cant single out and replace... I tried doing memtest, with no errors detected. I also did M.2 and SSD diagnostics, without any errors detected.
The problem also persists when changing XMP profiles or completely disabling it and running the ram at lower frequencies.
I read online that it might be caused my automatic voltage being applied in the bios, or the ram timings but im a bit scared to tinker around with these settings.
Now i can however game without this issue. I think its because there is always sound actively playing so the clicking does not happen, it might however be information that can help.
PC-specs (4month old pc)
intel 10600k
MSI Mag z490 tomahawk.
Corsair vengeance 3200mhz 2x16gb.
cooler master 650gold psu.
samsung NVME m.2 500gb
crucial 2tb ssd.
I have been trying many different sollutions the past few weeks:
- audio optimization as advised by windows, sweetwater and focusrite. (i did all the powermanagement options, usb energysaving, disabling c-state etc. nothing of the audio optimizations get rid of the problem)
- Reinstalling windows with different builds (20H2, 2004may2019, 1903 and 1903v2) (clean, no network installs. The problem pops up as soon as i install an audio driver. Wether this is Realtek, windows hd audio sollution or my audio interface drivers. They all start doing the popping sound.)
- Replacing my motherboard, thinking might have been an chipset issue or something.
- Enabling/disabling XMP, different speeds and auto settings.
- Use DDU in safe mode, but the problem persists even in this safe mode with all these drivers uninstalled.
- Latencymon tests, PC is suitable for realtime audio editing. (does show climbing latency numbers in the dxgkernel and nvlddmkm.sys)
Please does anyone have a sollution? im beginning to regret the choice of building my own pc at the moment... thinking it might be better to switch to a different platform and have everything at least work without any issues. So if anyone does know what to do or is willing to help, please let me know:)
Sincerely,
Kevin.
example audio glitch.mp3