Windows 10: Sound Card Buffer (?) Issue

I have a weird issue with my sound card. Whenever it starts playing audio when nothing was playing before, it takes a second before starting up, then it suddenly plays a very loud popping noise followed by the rest of the audio. Switching to another audio source when the first one is already playing does not cause this to happen. My current theory is that something is going wrong with the audio buffer, and it's playing whatever is in the first little section of the audio all at once, resulting in the extremely loud beep and cut off beginning from my audio. Currently I am avoiding this with a program I wrote that just plays a silent wav file on loop indefinitely. It works for now, but it's not very elegant, and sometimes it needs to be restarted if an application takes exclusive control of the audio card. Can anyone help me troubleshoot this?

I have two audio drivers at the moment: One that says Intel(R) Display Audio, and one that says Realtek Audio. I am not sure which of them does what, and I'm a bit reluctant to mess around with them.

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Good surround sound headset

I know you say you're not that guy, but stepping into the $250+ range really brings a change in build quality that might have you never having to buy another set. Otherwise, getting 6 speakers with decent sound in a headset is hard, and that's what you are asking for, and I have no suggestions, but just a bump up the list. *Stick Out Tongue

 

Sound Card Cannot be found on ACER aspire E5-511P


"sound card cannot be found". Does the Device Manager list it, and with an error? Or is it no listed in the Device Manager?
If its not listed at all, that suggests the BIOS is not detecting it or there is a BIOS error. Windows will not detect it if the BIOS does not.

You can try a BIOS reset and see if that helps, if its not being detected by the BIOS.

 

Sound issue while using Youtube

Hi,

Please answer these questions to assist you better.

• Is the issue specific to YouTube?
• Have you installed all pending Sound card and Windows updates?

I suggest you to install all pending Sound card and Windows updates in your PC.
Updates are additions to software that can help prevent or fix problems, improve how your computer works, or enhance your computing experience.

If the issue persists then refer the link below and follow the steps one by one from the drop down.

Fix sound problems

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