Hey folks,
Ever since installing Windows 7 (clean install), I've been getting intermittent popping and cracking in my audio regardless of program or file type. Videos, mp3s all do this. The problem seems to not exist upon reboot for some time, then eventually starts to happen. I can reproduce the problem by opening up a bunch of tabs at once in Firefox - but it pops even without heavy load like that.
Initially I saw from Google it may be an Envy24 driver issue, so I swapped around drivers, tried changing sampling rate, to no avail. I then switched to my MB's onboard Realtek sound, and it happens there as well. I have tried to install the latest Intel chipset and SATA drivers with no change. I tried various Realtek drivers as well, and messed with every setting. Now, I've found threads on various forums googling that both chipsets may have the same issue. I can't even tell if its a soundcard issue, or what, but I'm not getting CPU usage spikes or something.
I've tried getting the latest BIOS, changing drivers around, but it happens about a day or so after reboot (with the PC on overnight). I guess I could just keep rebooting, but this is kind of annoying. No issues with Vista on this PC.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Asus P5Q Pro
Intel Q6600
4GB DDR2 ram
2 Seagate SATA drives, 1 IDE HD
GF 8800 GTS 512
Chaintech AV-710
halp
Ever since installing Windows 7 (clean install), I've been getting intermittent popping and cracking in my audio regardless of program or file type. Videos, mp3s all do this. The problem seems to not exist upon reboot for some time, then eventually starts to happen. I can reproduce the problem by opening up a bunch of tabs at once in Firefox - but it pops even without heavy load like that.
Initially I saw from Google it may be an Envy24 driver issue, so I swapped around drivers, tried changing sampling rate, to no avail. I then switched to my MB's onboard Realtek sound, and it happens there as well. I have tried to install the latest Intel chipset and SATA drivers with no change. I tried various Realtek drivers as well, and messed with every setting. Now, I've found threads on various forums googling that both chipsets may have the same issue. I can't even tell if its a soundcard issue, or what, but I'm not getting CPU usage spikes or something.
I've tried getting the latest BIOS, changing drivers around, but it happens about a day or so after reboot (with the PC on overnight). I guess I could just keep rebooting, but this is kind of annoying. No issues with Vista on this PC.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Asus P5Q Pro
Intel Q6600
4GB DDR2 ram
2 Seagate SATA drives, 1 IDE HD
GF 8800 GTS 512
Chaintech AV-710
halp