Recent content by DarrylGittins

Good luck getting this resolved. I gave up on my system after replacing every component including the motherboard and Power Supply. So I foolishly went out and bought a new computer. An HP HPE-150f running Windows 7 x64. Guess what? Exactly the same problem. The only common factor is Windows 7...

Thanks kemical! I'm puzzled by the NVIDIA\Realtek label also but that's how it was identified by PCPitstop's overdrive scan, and Device Manager shows exactly the same thing: NVIDIA High Definition Audio NVIDIA High Definition Audio NVIDIA High Definition Audio NVIDIA High Definition...

Hey folks, thanks for reading my posts! 1. There appears to be no option in the BIOS to disable onboard sound, but when I used the external USB sound card, would I not have bypassed the onboard (I still got the same noise). 2. I installed Windows 7 from scratch on a new computer. Thanks...

This isn't a driver problem (for me), because I have the same cracking sound using the onboard sound card AND using different USB sound cards. The problem occurs in any music player (in Windows Media Player, or Winamp). The sound crackles and stutters when the CPU is busy. That is, when I...

This isn't a driver problem (for me), because I have the same cracking sound using the onboard sound card AND using different USB sound cards. The problem occurs in any music player (in Windows Media Player, or Winamp). The sound crackles and stutters when the CPU is busy. That is, when I...