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    Audio always breaking up/ skipping / crackling - what is causing this???

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Lvivkse, Nov 16, 2010.

  1. Lvivkse

    Lvivkse My username is a typo

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    Here are my symptoms I can't shake:
    The audio will crack and skip like its a bad Sony Walkman. Blips and cracks and various little distortions. Rebooting fixes this problem but it seems to compound over time; a fresh boot will have no problems but maybe later on I'll notice the odd skip, and if I just sleep and don't reboot for a while it'll get to the point where it's unbearable.

    This is my 2nd laptop, I had IDENTICAL issues with my Sony I had before this. I thought it was a faulty hard drive, so I replaced it, then I thought it was bad audio card so I replaced the laptop. Same issues so I got an SSD, and now I'm still getting the same issues even with clean windows installs - clean installs seem to be good initially but things eventually make their way back

    Any ideas? It's Windows 7 64, any known issues with programs causing memory leak or something, ANYTHING, that would cause this? I've been suffering for over a year, someone put me out of my misery :(
     
    Lvivkse, Nov 16, 2010
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  2. nikeseven

    nikeseven Notebook Deity

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    If the same problem happened on two different laptops, I would point to any programs you've installed. So what have you installed after the clean install? Or did it happen to both with a clean install from the same disc/image?
     
    nikeseven, Nov 17, 2010
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  3. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Probably a long shot but try disabling your wifi adapter.

    Whats the specs of your notebook?
     
    flipfire, Nov 17, 2010
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  4. KLF

    KLF NBR Super Modernator Super Moderator

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    How's your CPU usage? I've seen couple cases lately where some software uses nearly 100% CPU time and that causes sound distortion.
     
    KLF, Nov 18, 2010
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  5. Lvivkse

    Lvivkse My username is a typo

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    i dont really have anything out of the ordinary installed, i'm pretty minimalist. itunes, MSE, utorrent, dropbox, lastfm, msn messenger...

    2 different hard drives, 2 different installs
     
    Lvivkse, Nov 18, 2010
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  6. Lvivkse

    Lvivkse My username is a typo

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    I'll check next time it happens.

    envy 14...256gb ssd, i3 cpu, 4gb ram...

    I'll look but i dont think thats the case. When this hits, I could turn everything off and its still happening. I'll check again just for the sake of it. It even distorts windows sounds.
     
    Lvivkse, Nov 18, 2010
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