crackling sound from laptop speakers

arintukas · Feb 16, 2018

for some reason my laptop starting making a crackling sounds from the speakers whenever i try to play video or music. I looked into this and i found an article saying that it could be due to driver issues, but even disabling half of my drivers it still made that sound. any help?
laptop : Asus f70sl
sound chipset : realtek
gpu : nvidia 9300m gs

Solandri · Feb 16, 2018

I think people blame crackling sounds on drivers because reinstalling drivers is an easy fix. I've only ever encountered driver-induced speaker noise once.

The vast majority of times I've encountered crackling, it's because one of the wires carrying the signal to the speaker is loose. The crackling is due to the intermittent contact of the wire, causing the speaker to try to generate square waves (suddenly goes from no signal, to a signal, back to no signal). If the crackling increases when you move or shake the laptop, it's almost definitely a loose wire.

If you're handy with a soldering iron, in most cases this is an easy fix. Find the offending wire, and solder it back into place (usually you don't even need solder - just heat the existing solder on the speaker until it melts, then stick the wire in). If the bad solder joint is on the motherboard, that's a little trickier because the motherboard solder joints tend to be a lot smaller. But the same procedure usually works there. Rarely, the break is in the middle of the wire, which may necessitate replacing it.

arintukas · Feb 16, 2018

Solandri :

I think people blame crackling sounds on drivers because reinstalling drivers is an easy fix. I've only ever encountered driver-induced speaker noise once.

The vast majority of times I've encountered crackling, it's because one of the wires carrying the signal to the speaker is loose. The crackling is due to the intermittent contact of the wire, causing the speaker to try to generate square waves (suddenly goes from no signal, to a signal, back to no signal). If the crackling increases when you move or shake the laptop, it's almost definitely a loose wire.

If you're handy with a soldering iron, in most cases this is an easy fix. Find the offending wire, and solder it back into place (usually you don't even need solder - just heat the existing solder on the speaker until it melts, then stick the wire in). If the bad solder joint is on the motherboard, that's a little trickier because the motherboard solder joints tend to be a lot smaller. But the same procedure usually works there. Rarely, the break is in the middle of the wire, which may necessitate replacing it.

Im sorry,but i meant that sound was like this no matter if integrated speakers or headphones

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