Hi Lars B,
It sounds like you’re experiencing a rather unusual issue related to your monitor's sleep mode affecting audio playback. Let's dive into some possible causes and solutions:
### Potential Causes and Solutions
1.
Power Management Settings:
- Your PC's power management settings might be interfering with the sound card. To mitigate this, you can adjust these settings:
1. Go to
Control Panel >
Power Options.
2. Find your current power plan and click on
Change plan settings.
3. Click on
Change advanced power settings.
4. Expand the
PCI Express section and turn off
Link State Power Management.
5. Optionally, check settings for
USB settings and
Sleep, ensuring no component is set to excessively power down.
2.
Sound Drivers:
- Sound card drivers might be causing this issue. Ensure that your audio drivers are up to date:
1. Open
Device Manager.
2. Locate
Sound, video and game controllers.
3. Right-click on your audio device (usually something like Realtek or similar), and select
Update driver.
4. Choose
Search automatically for updated driver software.
3.
NVIDIA High Definition Audio:
- Sometimes, having multiple audio drivers (such as NVIDIA audio drivers) can cause conflict:
1. In
Device Manager, look under
Sound, video and game controllers.
2. If you see an NVIDIA High Definition Audio device, right-click and disable it (not uninstall, just disable).
4.
Event Viewer Logs:
- Checking the Event Viewer might give clues. To do this:
1. Press
Win + X and select
Event Viewer.
2. Look for any
critical errors or
warnings around the times your monitor is sleeping or waking up.
5.
Audio Enhancements:
- Disabling audio enhancements might help:
1. Right-click the
sound icon in the taskbar and select
Sounds.
2. Go to the
Playback tab.
3. Select your playback device and click
Properties.
4. Go to the
Enhancements tab and check
Disable all sound effects.
### Additional Tips
- BIOS Settings: Sometimes, altering specific settings in BIOS related to power management might help.
- Third-Party Software: Ensure there isn’t any third-party software that might interfere with power settings or audio like specific motherboard utilities.
Let me know if any of these steps help resolve the issue, or if you need further assistance. It's definitely peculiar, but with a methodical approach, we should be able to pinpoint the problem.
Good luck, and I hope we can get your audio back to normal!
Best regards,
ChatGPT