PC Audio/Driver Problems

[DIV1D3]

So I have returned, and I'm certain it's a driver or software relayed issue. 

I've downloaded BlueScreenView, and saved all of the BSODs that I have encountered to a text file, I really have no idea how I'm supposed to correct this, and right now I'm just thinking of re-installing Windows just to be sure it won't happen, but then again it happened on my HDD, and now my SSD. 

 

Here's the contents in the text file (it's quite large):

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Dump File : 021815-7035-01.dmp

Crash Time : 18/02/2015 3:33:21 PM

Bug Check String : IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Bug Check Code : 0x0000000a

Parameter 1 : 00000180`00000408

Parameter 2 : 00000000`00000002

Parameter 3 : 00000000`00000001

Parameter 4 : fffff800`03086e58

Caused By Driver : hal.dll

Caused By Address : hal.dll+30460

File Description :

Product Name :

Company :

File Version :

Processor : x64

Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0

Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\021815-7035-01.dmp

Processors Count : 4

Major Version : 15

Minor Version : 7601

Dump File Size : 281,648

Dump File Time : 18/02/2015 3:33:59 PM

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Dump File : 021715-7768-01.dmp

Crash Time : 17/02/2015 6:09:50 AM

Bug Check String : DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL

Bug Check Code : 0x000000c5

Parameter 1 : 00000000`00000008

Parameter 2 : 00000000`00000002

Parameter 3 : 00000000`00000000

Parameter 4 : fffff800`03206b15

Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe

Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0

File Description : NT Kernel & System

Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System

Company : Microsoft Corporation

File Version : 6.1.7601.18717 (win7sp1_gdr.150113-1808)

Processor : x64

Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0

Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\021715-7768-01.dmp

Processors Count : 4

Major Version : 15

Minor Version : 7601

Dump File Size : 281,648

Dump File Time : 17/02/2015 6:11:55 AM

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Dump File : 021415-8392-01.dmp

Crash Time : 14/02/2015 10:52:06 AM

Bug Check String : DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL

Bug Check Code : 0x000000c5

Parameter 1 : 00000000`00000008

Parameter 2 : 00000000`00000002

Parameter 3 : 00000000`00000000

Parameter 4 : fffff800`03012b15

Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe

Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0

File Description : NT Kernel & System

Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System

Company : Microsoft Corporation

File Version : 6.1.7601.18717 (win7sp1_gdr.150113-1808)

Processor : x64

Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0

Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\021415-8392-01.dmp

Processors Count : 4

Major Version : 15

Minor Version : 7601

Dump File Size : 281,592

Dump File Time : 14/02/2015 10:55:21 AM

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Dump File : 021315-8611-01.dmp

Crash Time : 13/02/2015 5:35:01 PM

Bug Check String : IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Bug Check Code : 0x0000000a

Parameter 1 : 00000180`00000408

Parameter 2 : 00000000`00000002

Parameter 3 : 00000000`00000001

Parameter 4 : fffff800`02e95e58

Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe

Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0

File Description : NT Kernel & System

Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System

Company : Microsoft Corporation

File Version : 6.1.7601.18717 (win7sp1_gdr.150113-1808)

Processor : x64

Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0

Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\021315-8611-01.dmp

Processors Count : 4

Major Version : 15

Minor Version : 7601

Dump File Size : 281,592

Dump File Time : 13/02/2015 5:36:35 PM

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Dump File : 021015-7784-01.dmp

Crash Time : 10/02/2015 8:22:00 PM

Bug Check String : CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION

Bug Check Code : 0x000000f4

Parameter 1 : 00000000`00000003

Parameter 2 : fffffa80`0c5b39d0

Parameter 3 : fffffa80`0c5b3cb0

Parameter 4 : fffff800`031de500

Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe

Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+76e80

File Description : NT Kernel & System

Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System

Company : Microsoft Corporation

File Version : 6.1.7601.18717 (win7sp1_gdr.150113-1808)

Processor : x64

Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+76e80

Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\021015-7784-01.dmp

Processors Count : 4

Major Version : 15

Minor Version : 7601

Dump File Size : 285,904

Dump File Time : 10/02/2015 8:22:50 PM

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I realise this is again a huge wall of text, sorry for the inconvenience. 

 

TL;DR

• Win7 SP1; BIOS F5/SMBIOS 2.7
• Happens with HDD and SSD/headphones and earphones
• Moved pretty much everything and tried almost all possible configurations with RAM and USB devices

 

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Hi all, so I've already made a thread about this, but it seems it was just too long to read. 

Anyquais, I'm back here asking for help about this problem, and I think the motherboard is to blame. 

So just a few weeks ago when I was using my headset (HyperX Cloud), one day there was a noticeable buzzing and crackling sound, with random pops. I instantly thought my headset was to blame, but after a huge amount of troubleshooting over several weeks I'm lead to believe that it is actually associated with my motherboard. 

Btw, my whole PC spec list is in my signature. 

I don't get any error messages and my BIOS version is F5, with the SMBIOS version being 2.7. 

• The amount of times I've turned my PC off, changed something, and then tested it again to see if the audio issue is solve is as many as Pi has decimals. 
• Used a different OS/drive. 
• Different GPU, as well as using different PCI-E slots. 
• Front panel and rear I/O. 
• Moving the RAM modules from 1 [2] 3 [4] to [1] 2 [3] 4. 
• Moving the whole PC out of the case. 
• Removing and reseating the CPU as well as re-applying the CPU paste. 
• With, and without the rear I/O shield. 
• Updated every damn driver possible. 

 

I'm using Win7 SP1, and the issue was present before, and after updates with my SSD, and while I was using my HDD. 

I have not tried it without a GPU, simply because I'd rather not uninstall CCC, boot without GPU, test, and then re-install it again. 

 

I did notice that when I was testing to see if the other USB devices had anything to do with it, when I unplugged, or plugged one device in (like my mouse/keyboard/USB drive) the buzzing would change slightly. I'm not certain but I think that even the popping was more often when there was a large amount of devices connected to the front and rear panel I/O. 

Also, this problem is present with my earphones, almost identically, and when in the AW menu some times it has an added crackle with my monitor speakers other wise it's completely fine (only with monitor speakers). 

Another observation I have made is that in AW I get some sort of anomalies, sometimes it's just flashing/blinking lights from random objects, or shadows flashing on and off. 

Additionally I have seen some square part of the screen just go awol, with multiple other squares in it. It's hard to explain, but it is present while playing AW sometimes, and one time I could see it while using YT. 

 

I think that's about it, hopefully I can actually get some help this time, and eventually manage to fix this. 

Cheers!

[k4p84]

Hey there,

 

I had the same thing after a rebuild a few weeks back, audio, regardless of headphone, speakers, front panel or rear was popping / spiking / generally been an arse...

 

Well for me it was the new AMD Omega drivers ( on CF R9 290's ) , used 'display driver uninstaller' app to purge the evil driver and installed the last 'non Omega' driver suite.

 

All the issue immediately vanished and I have nice audio again :-)

 

Give that a try and see if she likes it.

 

Regards

 

Ed

[DIV1D3]

Hey there,

 

I had the same thing after a rebuild a few weeks back, audio, regardless of headphone, speakers, front panel or rear was popping / spiking / generally been an arse...

 

Well for me it was the new AMD Omega drivers ( on CF R9 290's ) , used 'display driver uninstaller' app to purge the evil driver and installed the last 'non Omega' driver suite.

 

All the issue immediately vanished and I have nice audio again :-)

 

Give that a try and see if she likes it.

 

Regards

 

Ed

Right, I haven't tried installing a previous version of CCC, and I am running 14.12, so I'll get 14.9 or something alike and try that. 

Thanks for that. 

[k4p84]

Hey,

 

Any joy with the AMD driver downgrade to resolve this ?

 

Regards

 

Ed

[DIV1D3]

Hey,

 

Any joy with the AMD driver downgrade to resolve this ?

 

Regards

 

Ed

Nope, still having issues. 

I've tried disabling devices in Device Manager and in Recording/Playback Devices. Mucked around with Realtek, still nothing, and I installed 14.9, no difference. 

I think I'll have to uninstall every driver, update the BIOS (if available) and then re-install all the necessary, latest drivers. 

[DIV1D3]

Mkay, so I've done a little bit of digging, and found out that the noise can be a cause of real time programs such as avast! or CCleaner, both of which I have running all the time. 

So I thought to start up AW, close those programs (including MSI Afterburner and a few others), and then see if the problem was fixed. But it seems that the reason why these programs can cause this circle back to drivers, and I have additionally found out that programs that do not want to close (as in cannot be ended within Task Manager), is becauuse it is awaiting for a kernal process, which is supposedly caused by the "buggy driver". 

 

I've done everything that is explained on this page, though obviously excluding the "Method 6 – Turn Off Real Time Programs". 

http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/fix-audio-staticcracklingpopping-with-realtek-sound-card/

 

I'm going to uninstall MSI Afterburner, avast!, CCleaner, Rainmeter and possibly NetWorx, but does anyone have any other info or suggestions that would be even the slightest of help to me?

[DIV1D3]

So I have returned, and I'm certain it's a driver or software relayed issue. 

I've downloaded BlueScreenView, and saved all of the BSODs that I have encountered to a text file, I really have no idea how I'm supposed to correct this, and right now I'm just thinking of re-installing Windows just to be sure it won't happen, but then again it happened on my HDD, and now my SSD. 

 

Here's the contents in the text file (it's quite large):

==================================================
Dump File : 021815-7035-01.dmp
Crash Time : 18/02/2015 3:33:21 PM
Bug Check String : IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Bug Check Code : 0x0000000a
Parameter 1 : 00000180`00000408
Parameter 2 : 00000000`00000002
Parameter 3 : 00000000`00000001
Parameter 4 : fffff800`03086e58
Caused By Driver : hal.dll
Caused By Address : hal.dll+30460
File Description :
Product Name :
Company :
File Version :
Processor : x64
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0
Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\021815-7035-01.dmp
Processors Count : 4
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 7601
Dump File Size : 281,648
Dump File Time : 18/02/2015 3:33:59 PM
==================================================

==================================================
Dump File : 021715-7768-01.dmp
Crash Time : 17/02/2015 6:09:50 AM
Bug Check String : DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL
Bug Check Code : 0x000000c5
Parameter 1 : 00000000`00000008
Parameter 2 : 00000000`00000002
Parameter 3 : 00000000`00000000
Parameter 4 : fffff800`03206b15
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.1.7601.18717 (win7sp1_gdr.150113-1808)
Processor : x64
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0
Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\021715-7768-01.dmp
Processors Count : 4
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 7601
Dump File Size : 281,648
Dump File Time : 17/02/2015 6:11:55 AM
==================================================

==================================================
Dump File : 021415-8392-01.dmp
Crash Time : 14/02/2015 10:52:06 AM
Bug Check String : DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL
Bug Check Code : 0x000000c5
Parameter 1 : 00000000`00000008
Parameter 2 : 00000000`00000002
Parameter 3 : 00000000`00000000
Parameter 4 : fffff800`03012b15
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.1.7601.18717 (win7sp1_gdr.150113-1808)
Processor : x64
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0
Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\021415-8392-01.dmp
Processors Count : 4
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 7601
Dump File Size : 281,592
Dump File Time : 14/02/2015 10:55:21 AM
==================================================

==================================================
Dump File : 021315-8611-01.dmp
Crash Time : 13/02/2015 5:35:01 PM
Bug Check String : IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Bug Check Code : 0x0000000a
Parameter 1 : 00000180`00000408
Parameter 2 : 00000000`00000002
Parameter 3 : 00000000`00000001
Parameter 4 : fffff800`02e95e58
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.1.7601.18717 (win7sp1_gdr.150113-1808)
Processor : x64
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+74ec0
Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\021315-8611-01.dmp
Processors Count : 4
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 7601
Dump File Size : 281,592
Dump File Time : 13/02/2015 5:36:35 PM
==================================================

==================================================
Dump File : 021015-7784-01.dmp
Crash Time : 10/02/2015 8:22:00 PM
Bug Check String : CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION
Bug Check Code : 0x000000f4
Parameter 1 : 00000000`00000003
Parameter 2 : fffffa80`0c5b39d0
Parameter 3 : fffffa80`0c5b3cb0
Parameter 4 : fffff800`031de500
Caused By Driver : ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address : ntoskrnl.exe+76e80
File Description : NT Kernel & System
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company : Microsoft Corporation
File Version : 6.1.7601.18717 (win7sp1_gdr.150113-1808)
Processor : x64
Crash Address : ntoskrnl.exe+76e80
Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\021015-7784-01.dmp
Processors Count : 4
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 7601
Dump File Size : 285,904
Dump File Time : 10/02/2015 8:22:50 PM
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