Windows 10: Windows 10 popping sound in speakers

My eternal thanks!!!! Ever since I upgraded to 10 last summer I've been unable to listen to music on my computer — which I built primarily for that purpose. Updating/replacing/un- & re-installing drivers have had no effect whatsoever. I know my machine is old but that should have no effect on its ability to play music, especially smallish mp3 files.

I agree that maxing out the processor isn't the optimal way to achieve it but at least for the time being I can ensure that the music I'm ripping from my vinyl collection is being done so accurately.

Thanks so very much again!!!

 

you've got another sincerely grateful person registering just to thank you. this was precisely the problem i've had for months. the min cpu was just the ticket and my pops and crackles have actually gone by changing just this setting to 50%. It was on 5% be default in the Balanced mode. I've kept all the other settings the same.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

 

So as a quick addendum, this seemed to be half the answer in my case, as my Min Processor State was already at 100%, but tweaking with some other advanced power settings for battery use (ie Multimedia settings - When playing video - On) seemed to do the trick perfectly. (For now at least). Side note, this rubbish has doubled my on-battery power consumption, and for the Zenbooks already shitty power stats thats nothing to scoff at. Just beware

 

I tried all the above recommendations, none worked for me.
I ended buying a USB to 3.5mm adapter on Ebay for less than $4 bucks delivered, and to think I spent hours trying to change drivers and settings. No problems so far. Fingers crossed.

 

What worked for me with Win 10 AU was uninstalling completely "Intel RST" drivers with its too aggressive power saving system.

I just manually forced first std Windows 10 alternative drivers from Device Manager (beware! Do this FIRST or on next reboot you could experience the infamous "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" blue screen error!), and then uninstalled Intel RST.
This reduced the random popping/clicks/cracklings from speakers and subwoofer by 99% on my gaming laptop.
All other suggested methods failed, including the registry power saving modification.

EDIT:
I can confirm this solution worked for me, after 1 entire week of testing. Good luck!

 

do you have a USB 3.0 port you can try?

 

Sorry?

 

Yet another person that subscribed specifically to say "Thank you" in this thread.

Even though my problem is not completely solved, I know I'm on the right path.

I ordered an [inexpensive] USB to 3.5 mm audio output device tonight. Will report back when it gets here. I tried all the stuff people suggested in this thread and it did improve slightly. But it's far from solved. I get a "scratchy" sound which definately sounds like a latency problem.

THANK YOU to Jack07 for providing the link to the LatencyMon tool!

I was surprised I'm having any kind of CPU problem at all as I have a 12-core i7-3960X CPU monster desktop system with 64 GIG of RAM. Goes to show that throwing CPU POWER and RAM at a problem is not guarantee. Poorly written software is poorly written software and no amount of CPU cycles seems to be able to get around this badly written driver!

 

Did you try this Windows 10 popping sound in speakers ? It solved the issue completely for me without additional "hacks".
All other proposed fixes were ineffective (including registry editing for power management) and after some time the problem came back.
The only working solution for me was uninstalling completely "Intel RST" drivers.

Intel RST power management + Realtek power management = popping sound issues.

 

I joined this forum specifically just to THANK YOU. You're the man!!!

 

I was searching the solution for this since 2016 when i istalled windows 10. thank you! you are awesome *Smile

 

I went to Device Manager - Network Adapters, selected properties of wireless connection and disabled Bluetooth(R) AMP. That solved the problem for me. You might disable Ad Hoc QoS Mode as well. Good luck!

 

I solved the problem by going to Device Manager and uninstalling the Realtek device AND driver (make sure to click the checkbox to delete the driver from the system as well). Restart the PC immediately and it will install a Generic HD sound driver after rebooting. Also not ideal but it worked and the clicking stopped. In a few minutes, Windows updated the driver to a Realtek HD Audio driver and stil no clicking.

Easiest way to check the clicking is to run a program or installer that brings up UAC. For me, UAC caused a loud click everytime.

 

Hey everyone

Maybe it's a little bit late but here is solution

The sound chipset powers down after a specified time of inactivity to save power. This causes the popping noise and the high-pitched tone in the headphone jack. This can be configured in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Realtek\RAVCpl64\PowerMgnt.

The settings there are as follows:
DelayTime - time in seconds of inactivity which triggers powering down the sound chipset. Default is 10.
Enabled - enables the power management. Default is 0. Set to 1 to disable and always prevent these noises.
OnlyBattery - If power management is enabled, setting this to 1 will disable power management when the laptop is plugged in. The popping noises will only be heard when the laptop is on battery power, but this helps conserve power so the battery lasts longer.

 

I literally just joined to say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP! *Biggrin