DV6 IDT audio crackle pop click issue

I have pavilion dv6 with the crackle pop sound issue. It almost sounds like it crackles when the bass hits or higher notes. I have tried disabling hp 3d thing, that didnt work.
I updated newest drivers. Just very frustrating.

updated Atheros Wireless LAN Driver
Fixed issue, so far, Will see if problem stays away if so I'll not send it in for repairs.
First time says christmas, i have been able to use my notebook. HP FAIL.
How did the techs not even update my drivers when i sent it in for repair. They did more work than necessary changing out speakers that were perfectly fine.
But ill keep this upadated.

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Audio Crackles & Pops in disk burned by iDVD

I videotape using my Sony HDV camera (1080i), and import directly into iMovie06 HD. From what I've read on these forums, that is the best way to keep the full quality HD video. I edit my movie and close iMovie. Then I open iDVD, choose a theme, and drag that movie in. I don't add any other transitions, etc. Then I choose "Best Quality," and burn the DVD. When I play it in my Panasonic Blue Ray DVD player the audio crackles and pops--it's terrible. What happened? What can I do to fix this so that the audio quality is as good as it sounds on the HD videotape or on the Mac.

Hmmm. Crashing isn't good, but no harm to try again with Pro.
iDVD's Preview isn't always accurate, but do you hear anything there?
Burning errors wouldn't typically present themselves as crackles/pops, but high quality discs are recommended (Verbatim DVD-R discs are often suggested; I like Sony as well) as well as breaking down the burning process into two steps:
1) from iDVD, create a virtual DVD by using Save As Disc Image. Test this by mounting the disc image and using Apple's normal DVD Player to play it on your Mac (try just double-clicking the image file).
2) If it plays correctly, Copy the disc image to an actual DVD using Roxio Toast or Apple's Disk Utility.
It's good to have a substantial amount of hard disc space available (10-25 gigs) and I typically quit from other applications so iDVD can have max resources available.
All the audio work in iDVD is behind the scenes and there aren't any special audio controls.
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Windows 8.1 MSI GTX 780 Audio Crackle & Pop

Hi Guys,
Pulling my hair out with this one and I really need some help.
My HDMI Audio out to TV has worked great but more often than not I get Audio crackling and popping sounds.
Its more apparent when I launch big picture mode in steam it opens with horrid crackling sounds, if I use my USB headset its fine.
I have done the following so far;
Disabled onboard Audio in the bios - No difference
Enable XMP1 memory profile - Thought it had resolved this at first but then the issue was back within a few days
Enabled high performance in power settings - no difference
reinstalled all drivers - no difference
did a full reinstall of Windows 8.1 and removed other devices and the same issue occurred.
I would also like to add the TV is fine, speakers are ok and I have tried a new HDMI cable and other devices which don't crackle.
Scan computers have offered to RMA the card but I don't think this issue is the card the games, graphics, all function really well and I am hoping to not have to RMA the card I have come here to ask for help because I am now at my wits end trying to fix this.
My motherboard BIOS is also fully up to date
Gigabyte Z97M-DSH3 Bios F5
i5 4460
Ballistix 8GB Ram
Nothing is overclocked

Had the same problem after installing 8.1 a long time ago. Rolled back to 8 still had the same problem. Just ignored it for like a year since it only happened after my PC was on for a while and then I could just log out and back in and it would fix itself for like 8 hours. Down the road I reinstalled windows from scratch after getting a new PSU (mine was getting up there) and it was gone. I think it had something to do with some drivers or something getting messed up while moving to win 8.1. On 8.1 now and have no issues.

Audio crackle/pop with new MacBook Pro under Vista

I just got a brand new MacBook Pro (multi-touch, Penryn cpu) and have used Boot Camp to install Windows Vista on it. Vista installed fine, and then I used the Restore DVDs that came with my MBP to install the drivers. The Device Manager shows that everything is installed.
All is not well, however. Whenever sound is being output, there are random crackles or pops - sometimes there will only be one every 5 minutes or so, sometimes there are 10 of them right in a row. The only clue I can find is that the Problem Reports And Solutions application in Vista says that there is a "Compatibility issue between Intel 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Controller - 27B9 and Windows Vista." There is no solution offered. I don't know if this problem is directly related to the audio problems, but it seems likely.
Has anyone else encountered this? Any way to fix this and stop the audio crackles?

Well after a week and a half of testing and being unsatisfied with choppy audio on my MBP I believe I may have found the answer. The cause lies in the audio API within Vista; there is a specific service (Multimedia Class Scheduler) that adjusts the priority of multimedia applications according to resources available and one of the factors that affects the prioritization is network usage.
I tried pretty much every Broadcom driver available from HP and Dell to no avail; some reduced the frequency of the pops and crackles but none of them removed it completely.
I believe the solution lies within several registry keys that control the Multimedia Class Scheduler service. Open up regedit and modify the following keys:
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile
Set NetworkThrottlingIndex and SystemResponsiveness to 10 each (decimal)
and
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\Tasks\Audio
Set SchedulingPriority to High.
After changing these 2 keys I couldn't here any audible stutter regardless of whichever driver I used. I am currently using v1.96 for the Realtek and 4.170.77.3 for the Broadcom.

HP Pavilion dv6 - IDT audio not working?

Hi there,
My audio doesn't seem to be working, though it does appear on my sounds menu. I've tried update drivers as well as roll back. It was working a few days ago until a driver update recently.
Help would be much appreciated!
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@movait89,
Try the following.
Download the IDT Audio installer on the link below and save it to your Downloads folder.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp58001-58500/sp58226.exe
When done, open windows Control Panel, open Device Manager and open up Sound, Video and Game Controllers. Right click the IDT device and select Uninstall - you should also get a prompt to remove the current driver, tick the box to allow this and then proceed with the uninstall.
When complete, shut down the notebook, unplug the AC Adapter and then remove the battery. Hold down the Power button for 30 seconds. Re-insert the battery and plug in the AC Adapter.
Tap away at the esc key as you start the notebook to launch the Start-up Menu and then select f10 to enter the bios menu. Press f5 to load the defaults ( this is sometimes f9, but the menu at the bottom will show the correct key ), use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter. Press f10 to save the setting and again use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter.
Let Windows fully load - it will automatically load an audio driver, but just let this complete. Then open your Downloads folder, right click on the IDT installer and select 'Run as Administrator' to start the installation. When this has completed, right click the speaker icon in the Taskbar and select Playback Devices. Left click 'Speakers and Headphones' once to highlight it and then click the Set Default button - check if you now have audio.
If you still have no audio, open windows Control Panel, open Administrative Tools and open Services. Check that the following services are all showing as Status= Started and Start-up Type= Automatic
Audio Service
Multimedia Class Scheduler
Windows Audio
Windows Audio Endpoint Builder
If you need to make a change to any of the above, just right click the service and select Properties, then in the dropdown box next to 'Start-up type', select Automatic and click Apply to save the change. Then click the Start button.
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Logic X audio problems (pop, click, stutter)

Has anyone else experienced audio problems in Logic X? This happens with just a single EXS instrument loaded. When I add notes or playback the audio signal clicks. It seems to be a buffer issue but I'm running 128 samples which doesn't seem that aggressive (especially with only a single instrument loaded). Switching to 256 samples seemed to make things better but it still hitches. I'm running on the latest generation macbook air (core i5 1.3ghz haswell, 4gb ddr3 ram, 128gb ssd) which seems like it should be plenty. Logic is 10.0.0.3 and OSX is 10.8.5 and I'm using on-board sound card. I tried on a core 2 duo macbook air with the same software versions and settings and it works flawlessly. Anyone have any ideas?

I had the same problem with my new 27-in. iMac (Late 2013) and so far it seems to have gone away after talking with Apple support today. I was getting clicks and pops about every 10 minutes and I had to either unplug and replug my Apogee Duet 2, or change the buffer size in Logic, which only provided a temporary solution.
Apple support today had me do the following:
#1 Shut down my computer and unplug everything (all USB's, external hard drives etc.)
#2 Unplug the power cord, wait 15 seconds, and plug it back in.
#3 Turn the computer back on, but as soon as you press the power button to turn it on, you have to hold Option+Command+P+R
#4 You will hear the boot-up chime (or whatever) twice, and after the second chime, let go of the keys.
#5 If you get a Mac Utility screen or something other than your normal login, shut down the computer once more and restart.
#6 Login as usual, and the problem should be fixed.
Apparently resetting the "NVRAM or PRAM" is what this does, although I don't know what it means. He also provided me with two articles to use in the case that it happens again, although he said it shouldn't:
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
About NVRAM and PRAM
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IMac sound pops/clicks issues

I have a new iMac 20" (iSight), two days old. I find this computer awesome! Everything is fine except for a little issue with sound. From time to time (randomly in intervals of about 30min to 1 hour) I hear an audio click/pop coming from the audio output port (just heard one of these right now). I have a JBL creature speaker system connected to the iMac's sound output port which makes the sound really audible. These sound clicks are more frequent after I turn the computer on or awake it from sleep.
Can someonde tell me if this is normal? Can it be because of fluctuations in the electric current supplied on AC outlet? I work with music and, therefore, I need very good sound quality.
Thanks for all replies,
Spinnn

Spinn-
I do a lot of music production work. I have not had the specific issue that you are dealing with.
As far as audio click/pops being normal, I don't know about that. Yes, you don't have the "headroom" that analog recording does when the input sound level peaks and goes above the redline. Sometimes those peaks are reduced to pops or clicks by the software.
If your input level is good, then I do not believe that this is your problem. You may want to check that just to verify.
Another difference with my setup is that my audio does not get transferred to my amp/speakers through any of the Macs audio ports. I have a MOTU firewire interface and all audio is fed from that to the amps.
I have read other posts from folks having the same problem as you describe. I have not seen a fix yet. That does not mean that there is not one. You may want to search these forums and see.
Good luck. If I can be of any further help just let me know.
-DaddyP

HDX 16 - IDT Audio - High CPU Usage

I just upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. Every now and then the notebook slows to a crawl and I notice that Task Manager says stacsv64.exe process shows 60% CPU usage and more than 100MB usage.

Hi,
A
Download correct driver from HP support site for Your model:
Click on Support & Drivers link. (Upper part of this page.)
Choose option: Download drivers and software (and firmware)
In form:
Enter a product name / number
For product provide Your p/n. (How to find correct p/n informations here.)
Click on Go and choose Your correct system.
Find there audio driver.
Disconnect from Internet.
Uninstall from Your system current audio drivers.
Resources:
Uninstalling Software in Windows 7
Uninstall or change a program in Windows 7
Restart Your system:
On boot press ' F8 ' and choose ' Safe mode '.
Go to Control Panel -> Devices Manager -> Audio, Video and Games Controllers
and find there Audio card. Click on it with right button of Your mouse and choose uninstall driver.
Restart Your system and this time start it in normally.
Install downloaded audio driver.
If problem will not be solved then:
B
Go to Control Panel -> Devices Manager -> Audio, Video and Games Controllers
and find there IDT audio card. Click on it with right button of Your mouse and choose properties.
Then go to ' Details ' tab and paste here Hardware ID .
Below You've got example how to do it:
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Audio issues, snap crackle POP - Leopard on MBP.

Just upgraded from Tiger to Leopard on the weekend. I'm noticing some audio pops from time to time when I use external speakers, either using "normal" external speakers or digitally through the optical out port. It's this loud, low frequency pop, simliar to:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4764288#4764288
Is anyone else experiencing this, or have any solutions?
Cheers,
Sameer

Same here. Late 2006 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. Since installing Leopard I get an audible crackle/pop in my external speakers. It seems to occur every few seconds when there is no other sound playing from another app. When I'm listening to audio (iTunes, AOL Radio, videos, etc.) I don't notice the pop, but it might just be too faint to hear.

Beats/IDT Audio not working on Pavilion dv6 running Windows 7

A few months ago my speakers would stop responding midway through audion or video. I assumed a restart was in order and did just that. Problem solved, many times over. Tonight, however, my audio would not work upon restart plus iTunes wouldn't open claiming an issue with my computer's sound properties. I uninstalled/reinstalled IDT audio, tried updating the drivers, updated just about everything else on my computer yet still no sound. My computer relates to me that everything is okay and in perfect working order while the diagnostics state that my sound is not working.
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Hi,
The following package is for Windows 7 64bit:
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp59501-60000/sp59882.exe
for both 32bit and 64bit (older):
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp56501-57000/sp56996.exe
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Constant crackling/pop + inability to install standard drivers + audio loss

Oh Lord, what a disaster Creative is. I have a Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatalty Pro that worked fine under Windows XP for four straight years. Then on the fifth year when I upgraded to the Windows 7 x64 Beta it ceased to function. It never continued to work with the Release Candidate, RTM or Retail versions so I just gave up until a few days ago when I thought maybe Creative or the community fixed some of my issues...
Hah, fat chance. Anyways it all began with severe audio distortions, pops and crackling that would sometimes end in a flat-line tone or eternal static. No matter how many times I reinstalled my drivers, used older drivers or used user remedies nothing worked. So I just gave up, took out my sound card and sucked it up with my Realtek integrated motherboard audio (eugh).
Well I can't stand it anymore. I'm too much of an audiophile to settle for anything less so I tried my sound card out again. I still had the same problems only now I can barely install any Creative drivers as the installation will constantly ask about a file called layout.bin.[url="http://consumerdocs.installshield.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=Q0892&sliceId=" rel="nofollow"> I followed this solution[/url] but it does not work at all and there are no other responses on the issue.
But that's OK because I can still install the base X-Fi drivers. Unfortunately it never resolved my issue. Older drivers do not work. There's nothing other than crackling and popping and then an utter loss of audio. Then I heard about Daniel_K and used his drivers (X-Fi Prelude Beta and X-Fi Support Pack 2.0). I was elated when everything installed without a single issue and the audio was perfect... until after maybe an hour when the crackling came back. Then it started getting progressi'vely worse until you can't even decipher what's being heard. I tried a couple reinstalls which would fix the issue for a short spell but then it'd degrade exponentially from there.
On top of that I couldn't use any of the Creative software with either Creative's drivers or Daniel_K's. It would never detect my sound card even though Windows had no problem seeing it. So I spent literally 5 hours of my day prowling these forums, Google and my own experiments with no luck.
So rather than looking for a solution I'm just gonna ask for one. I have an EVGA 680i motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3GHz, ATI Radeon HD 5850, 6GB RAM, Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatalty Pro and .5TB HDD space.
I know Creative stated that nForce motherboards might have an issue with the X-Fi but I've never had that problem with XP and I heard it's found in many other boards from different manufacturers. Creative also stated problems with more than 4GB of RAM but I've disabled all but 3.5GB of RAM with no success. I know Creative states that this is a PCI issue and that I should mess around with my BIOS settings. Updating my BIOS, disabling unneeded BIOS features, changing PCI slots and getting rid of my overclocks did nothing.
I [b][u]KNOW[/u][/b] that it's [color="#ff0000"]not a defecti've card. Everything works 00% with Ubuntu 9.0. Thanks for your time. I'm probably just wishing for gold to pour from the heavens and wasting my time. =(

ORe: Constant crackling/pop + inability to install standard drivers + audio loss? Alright, don't ask me how but I managed to mostly fix my crackling and popping issue. I fixed it with a combination of rearranging all of my hardware to different slots and reinstalling my drivers for the th time, only this time mashing Daniel_K's drivers with Creative's.
Now getting the drivers to work is another thing. I have sound and it's superb (the only reason why I'm willing to sacrifice so much of my time to get this to work) but I cannot get any other function out of my X-Fi. I can't open up the console, switch modes, enable effects, etc. Also, if I ATTEMPT to screw around with any audio settings my computer will start crackling like the devil and all of my hard work will be undone, prompting another reinstall requiring the utter removal of anything Creative on my PC to work.
Now I think the reason for this is because whenever I try to install any Creative software from Creative themselves (except the driver) it won't install. It will ask about a layout.bin, I would point the installation to where layout.bin is but then it'd give me an error (Error I-00). According to my install.log I'm missing something called CTShared. I try installing it but it doesn't seem to fix my problem.
Also, installing ALchemy will tell me that it couldn't create a shortcut after installation and will not work. Sometimes the installation will say that there is a newer version of a product and that it won't install even though there is no trace of anything Creative on my computer.
Now Daniel_K's drivers and software install fine, but the software WILL NOT detect my sound card. It will constantly tell me that the audio device wasn't found or that it's not installed. Windows sees it fine, though, and I get perfect audio. So I mashed Daniel_K's drivers with Creative (long process) and everything installs fine, everything looks to run fine but for some reason nothing will start up. So so much for my own modding attempts. >_<
Any solutions?

Random Audio Crackling and Popping on playback in FCP and Pro Tools

Hello All,
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Interesting point about the winter/static. The only thing is that I never had those problems before with the same setup on my older dual 1.8 PPC G5 PowerMac, through several winters.
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I have just installed a PCI-Express USB 2.0 card for use with both the Edirol and MBox, just in case it was an issue with the built-in MAC USB ports. I will see if that helps.
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Crackle-pop issue. Seems to be due to raid control

Hi. I have the crackle/pop issue widely mentioned. However the weird thing is that it just "started" one day. I have had my onboard (sil 34) raid5 controller running the whole time I have had my X-fi yet they haven't had any conflicts until recently. This may be because my harddri'ves are being used a lot now than before (my computer is a media server and gets read/write requests 24/7). Currently I have 3 harddri'ves installed into the raid controller, I added a 4th and I got the problem where either the X-fi would work (perfectly) and the raid5 controller wouldnt show up, or they would both show up and the X-fi wouldnt play any media at all. I have tried swapping the X-fi to different pci slots but it does not help.
Currently I have only minor crackle/pops when playing music (every -2 sec or so). If I add a 4th harddri've to my raid controller then the X-fi refuses to play or just plays a constant stream of noise.
Here are screenshots of the PCI bus of each and IRQs:
http://blood-pack.org/ao/xfi.PNG
http://blood-pack.org/ao/xfi2.PNG
http://blood-pack.org/ao/xfi3.PNG
Things I've tried:
Reinstalling motherboard/xfi drivers
Swapping pci slots
Unplugging the floppy cable to the X-fi
Different PSU
I HAVENT tried flashing the bios as the current bios I am using (702-bta) is the only one that will allow my ballistix ram to run @ 250mhz (stock for my set).
Systems specs:
4800+ X2, 2xGB Ballistix z503 (250 mhz), X900 XTX, DFI NF4 SLi, 3 harddri'ves in raid5 on the silicon image raid controller, 3 harddri'ves on the nvidia sata controller (no raid)
Hope you can help, thanks.

Follow up: If I stop all read/writes to the raid5 array then I do not get the pop/cracle issue. However this is not practical for me, any ideas?

Audio: Snap, Crackle & Pop when running Vista.

Hi Everyone,
I have searched the forums and read a lot about the common problem of audio crackling when running Vista via Bootcamp. However, most of the searches pertain to Macbook Pro's as opposed to iMac, which is what I'm running.
I've read the the problem is to do with the Wireless drivers and by disabling the Wirless drivers the problem is fixed. However, this obviously isn't an option if you have a wireless connection.
Has this nagging issue now been resolved via an update (I have all the latest sofware and drivers according to Vista) or has a work around been figured out to stop this issue on an iMac?
Thanks in advance for any advice or help.

Hi - to answer my own post. I wasn't aware that I was running the older version of Bootcamp. After doing an Apple Software Update in Vista, Bootcamp updated to build 2.1 and appears to have resolved the problem. Excellent!

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