I had a problem like that once and solved it by reinstalling Windows, not much of a help I know but at least it solved it.

-alle Spezial-Soundeffekte in den Eigenschaften des Abspielgerätes ausgeschaltet?
-schonmal die Windows Ereignisanzeige bemüht? Irgendwas auffälliges?
-im Gerätemanager nach nicht (richtig) installierten Treibern gesucht?
-Alternativen zum Onboard-Sound parat - Soundkarte PCI,usb), HDMI-Audio zu Testzwecken?
-Irdendwelche auffälligen BIOS-Einstellungen - IRQ-Belegung, HPET?

Oh Bog. See, I went to the mobo's site because I keep reading that WinU tends to get it wrong. I'm not allowing it to update drivers either because of that. With every driver update I do I'm worried I'll break something - comes with the "not knowing enough about computers" thing. But I'll try that.

I only updated chipset and Realtek drivers after I'd noticed the crackling, though, and got them both from the ASUS site, thinking that would make sure there'd be no conflict.
As for the AMD audio driver: Like I said, I googled a lot and it is often suggested to people with audio issues of any sort that drivers of different audio devices may conflict, that's why I mentioned it. Thanks for clearing that up!

I don't suppose whiskey would do. So this is going to take a while. Does that work with USB ports and plugs too, seeing as how something seems to be at odds with those?

Well, I wouldn't say not much help, it is a possibility, just not one I like much. :<

Whiskey would work, but, it also has other ingredients so you would have to clean them after cleaning them! lol Best is a 70t - 99% solution of rubbing alcohol. The best thing to clean contacts is an eraser though. If you can get to it with an eraser that will clean it even if you do not use the alcohol.

I had this happen to me a week ago. Updating all drivers did nothing for me as well. The thing that fixed it, though, was switching the Hard Drive from PIO (Falls back to it after a crash or something) to DMA. To do this on windows 7 you go to device manager, lcikc on a hard drive Channel, (SATA or ATA channel for example), right click and go to properties, advanced settings and click on Enable DMA.

Run the DPC latency checker application after a restart to see if the problem has been fixed.

Yep. Vor und nach Treiber-Erneuerung. Mikrofone auch deaktiviert, ich glaub, alles, was direkt mit Sound zusammenhängt, hab ich irgendwann im Laufe der letzten paar Tage ausprobiert.

Ähm, hrm. Definiere auffällig? Ich kenn mich, wie gesagt, nicht aus, von daher ist das alles eher verwirrend für mich.

Aye. Keine Ausrufezeichen. Außerdem hab ich immerhin auf meiner Oddysee herausgefunden, wie man alte, ungenutzte Treiber anzeigt. Mittlerweile seh ich den Gerätemanager, wenn ich die Augen zumache.

Leider nicht.
BIOS - eh. Geschaut hab ich, aber das ist auch wieder alles zu viel für mein Hirn. HPET Einstellung hab ich nicht gefunden, was IRQs angeht, tja - viel drüber gelesen die letzten Tage, tatsächlich hab ich das im Verdacht, allerdings (wie gesagt) weiß ich nicht mal wirklich, was das ist und es scheint auch, dass Win7 einem da keine Änderungen erlaubt, wenn man nicht rumpfuscht. Gerätemanager sagt, dass Audio und USB sich IRQs teilen (wenn ich das richtig lese). Neuinstallation hat daran auch nichts geändert und Windows behauptet - wie immer - das da kein Konflikt besteht.

And then there'd be nothing left to help me make it through this nonsense!
I like how my computer is generally cleaner than anything else here already.

I have absolutely no idea what you just said, sir.
While I can follow basic instructions - can you tell me what exactly that means? o.o Is it something someone like myself should be doing unsupervised?

Don't worry, I highly doubt it will cause issues. If it does, you Hard Drive will fall back to PIO.
Basically, DMA (Direct Memory Access), is a feature that allows your PC to access internal devices, such as hard drives in this case, without CPU usage (Or very little), making hard drive access much faster. I believe it is default on most machines. PIO (Programmed input/output) requires your CPU access internal system memory and devices, which can make hard drive access painfully slow on some machines. PIO is generally only used in legacy PCs nowadays.

Jolly g- wait what?
...but that's my favourite pastime.

I checked in the device manager but it seems that DMA is already active. Thanks for the suggestion though - it was kinda too good to be true, that one click solution I was hoping for, of course it wouldn't work!

Okay, uh - I've been staring at this site for a while now and the fact aside that it is in French and I can't seem to find a way to change that, I appear to be utterly lost. Wh... what am I looking for?


On another note, I did download ADWCleaner and it found some registry keys and folders. I let it delete them and reboot, didn't do any good for the sound thing though.

"Gelbe" oder "Rote" Ereignisse, Treiber-Neustarts oder ähnliches.

Wenn du momentan keine USB-Geräte am Rechner hast könntest du den USB-Controller mal abschalten. Deaktivier dazu im Gerätemanager unter USB-Controller das USB-Gerät, welches unter Treiberdetails "usbport.sys" aufweist (Vielleicht auch mehrere).

Nichtmal ein HDMI-Kabel mit zugehörigem Gerät (Monitor/TV)? Damit könnte man zumindest erstmal Onboard-Audio als Fehlerquelle ausschliessen.

Ansonsten würd ich nochmal ins Bios und alle unnötigen ports/controller abschalten: Seriell (COM), Parallel, IDE, SATA, Firewire, FRONT-USB, etc., eben alles, was nicht genutzt wird; schauen, ob AHCI aktiviert ist (oder nutzt du RAID?) oder wie die irq-belegung eingestellt ist (wenn manuell, wieder auf automatisch stellen).
Vielleicht sieht dann hinterher die automatische IRQ-Belegung besser aus...

On my last laptop, I started getting a similar problem: there was a slight buzz in the background. I'm not really sure what caused it, but I fixed it by re-installing the audio drivers. That's not the weird part, though. It would return every time I re-booted the system, and I had to re-install the drivers every time. Annoying, but not overly. I think it resolved itself at some point, but I have no idea how or why.

Not sure this helps in any way, but it's worth keeping in mind, given the random unexplained nature of the problem. I'd say, focus on the Realtek audio drivers, don't even bother with the AMD HD audio stuff. It's probably a matter of getting their settings to override any others around. That's the best I can offer.

I don't have Soundmax... still tried digging through all possible audio settings but couldn't find anything like that. o_°
Did that already, no such luck. Thanks though!

Oh Jesus. Gelb und rot - ja. Nun weiß ich natürlich nicht, was davon relevant ist und was genau ich mir ansehen soll. Administrative Ereignisse?

Na ja, meine Maus. Ich kann sie natürlich wieder gegen den PS/2 Klotz eintauschen. Muss ich nach dem Deaktivieren neu starten?

Kabel ja, aber der Monitor hat keine Lautsprecher und ich hab kein Audiogerät, was ich da anschließen könnte.

BIOS macht mir Angst. Ich weiß immer nicht, was dort was ist und am Ende schalte ich irgendwas ab, das man nicht abschalten sollte.
...woher weiß ich, ob AHCI oder RAID? (Ich bin vermutlich nicht besonders hilfreich. Aber begrenzt lernfähig.)


Odd.
Don't you usually have to reboot when you install a new driver anyway? So... you'd install the driver, reboot, then it works until the next reboot? Thing is, with all my driver fiddling and other stuff, there was never a point when it was not crackling. Reboots, re-installs, un-installs, new installs, nothing.

I know german is easier but if you talk english it might help out the non german speaking people to see what has been discussed and tried.

Not really. If the setup is coded correctly, all it needs to do is turn off the sound-system, replace the files and configuration and re-initialise. Strictly speaking, this should work for almost any driver, but it's frequently done via reboot. Also to note, that was an XP system, with not a few tweaks to running services, so I may have inadvertently made it easier on myself.

Have you tried disabling the device from the Device manager. There's lots of good and bad you can do playing around with that :P Again, though, I'm sorry but I can't be of any real help as is :(