Crackling sounds in windows

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A few days ago a had an SSD installed on my pc and installed win reset everything , and after that it's started making some weird cracking sounds , both on some headphones and on speakers .

Untill i installed the SSD didn't had this problem from what I remember . i used "dpclat" for latency and aparently when there is the cracking sounds the Latency goes over 20 000 us .

Thanks for your time and have a good one

Processor : Ryzen 1600x
Motherboard : Asrock X370 Gaming X
Video card : Amd Radeon r7 240
ram : 16 gb DDR4 3000 Mhz
SSd : Samsung evo 860 250 GB
HDD : Some 7-8 years old , Don';t know it's name for sure 500 gb hdd

 
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- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
- Premium Blu-ray Audio support
- Supports Surge Protection
- Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps
- 120dB SNR DAC with Differential Amplifier
- TI® NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier for Front Panel Audio Connector (Supports up to 600 Ohm headsets)
- Pure Power-In
- Direct Drive Technology
- PCB Isolate Shielding
- Impedance Sensing on Rear Out port
- Individual PCB Layers for R/L Audio Channel
- Gold Audio Jacks
- Supports Creative Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3

This is what's sais on the motherboard site at audio , And what does that mean , i didn't quite understood what might be the problem or what can i do to solve it . Can you please explain ?
 

Astralv

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I can't find it online. Does it have control panel? If it does, you can look through the settings to see if it offers option to change buffer size- it is usually 32, 64, 128, 256 and so on. You would keep increasing it until it stops crackling.

Did you install proper driver? When you reinstall Windows, you need to install right driver. Without it, it will use Windows Generic driver. Also there were some issues reported in latest Windows build. Also if you install wrong driver, you may have the same problem.
 
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you might be right it seems like most people are solving this thing left and right with your ideea of changing the buffer size but i can't seem to find a way to do it so myself.. and everything is up to date
 
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Using LatencyMon i get this : Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. Also one or more ISR routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.
LatencyMon has been analyzing your system for 0:07:25 (h:mm:ss) on all processors.


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SYSTEM INFORMATION
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Computer name: DESKTOP-A7M67D1
OS version: Windows 10 , 10.0, build: 17134 (x64)
Hardware: ASRock, X370 Gaming X
CPU: AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Six-Core Processor
Logical processors: 12
Processor groups: 1
RAM: 16316 MB total


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CPU SPEED
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Reported CPU speed: 3593 MHz

Note: reported execution times may be calculated based on a fixed reported CPU speed. Disable variable speed settings like Intel Speed Step and AMD Cool N Quiet in the BIOS setup for more accurate results.

WARNING: the CPU speed that was measured is only a fraction of the CPU speed reported. Your CPUs may be throttled back due to variable speed settings and thermal issues. It is suggested that you run a utility which reports your actual CPU frequency and temperature.



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MEASURED INTERRUPT TO USER PROCESS LATENCIES
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The interrupt to process latency reflects the measured interval that a usermode process needed to respond to a hardware request from the moment the interrupt service routine started execution. This includes the scheduling and execution of a DPC routine, the signaling of an event and the waking up of a usermode thread from an idle wait state in response to that event.

Highest measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 40744.023277
Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 4.439220

Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 40738.038717
Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 1.593874


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REPORTED ISRs
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Interrupt service routines are routines installed by the OS and device drivers that execute in response to a hardware interrupt signal.

Highest ISR routine execution time (µs): 22904.025605
Driver with highest ISR routine execution time: HDAudBus.sys - High Definition Audio Bus Driver, Microsoft Corporation

Highest reported total ISR routine time (%): 0.005651
Driver with highest ISR total time: HDAudBus.sys - High Definition Audio Bus Driver, Microsoft Corporation

Total time spent in ISRs (%) 0.007072

ISR count (execution time <250 µs): 92129
ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 500-999 µs): 1
ISR count (execution time 1000-1999 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 2000-3999 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0


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REPORTED DPCs
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DPC routines are part of the interrupt servicing dispatch mechanism and disable the possibility for a process to utilize the CPU while it is interrupted until the DPC has finished execution.

Highest DPC routine execution time (µs): 24247.818536
Driver with highest DPC routine execution time: dxgkrnl.sys - DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation

Highest reported total DPC routine time (%): 0.025790
Driver with highest DPC total execution time: Wdf01000.sys - Kernel Mode Driver Framework Runtime, Microsoft Corporation

Total time spent in DPCs (%) 0.071051

DPC count (execution time <250 µs): 901627
DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time 500-999 µs): 17
DPC count (execution time 1000-1999 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time 2000-3999 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0


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REPORTED HARD PAGEFAULTS
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Hard pagefaults are events that get triggered by making use of virtual memory that is not resident in RAM but backed by a memory mapped file on disk. The process of resolving the hard pagefault requires reading in the memory from disk while the process is interrupted and blocked from execution.

NOTE: some processes were hit by hard pagefaults. If these were programs producing audio, they are likely to interrupt the audio stream resulting in dropouts, clicks and pops. Check the Processes tab to see which programs were hit.

Process with highest pagefault count: explorer.exe

Total number of hard pagefaults 256
Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process: 97
Number of processes hit: 14


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PER CPU DATA
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CPU 0 Interrupt cycle time (s): 33.203252
CPU 0 ISR highest execution time (µs): 22904.025605
CPU 0 ISR total execution time (s): 0.365162
CPU 0 ISR count: 79835
CPU 0 DPC highest execution time (µs): 24247.818536
CPU 0 DPC total execution time (s): 3.453196
CPU 0 DPC count: 840960
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CPU 1 Interrupt cycle time (s): 27.443315
CPU 1 ISR highest execution time (µs): 7.103813
CPU 1 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000630
CPU 1 ISR count: 268
CPU 1 DPC highest execution time (µs): 191.402171
CPU 1 DPC total execution time (s): 0.011441
CPU 1 DPC count: 1056
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CPU 2 Interrupt cycle time (s): 16.850254
CPU 2 ISR highest execution time (µs): 10.831060
CPU 2 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000995
CPU 2 ISR count: 208
CPU 2 DPC highest execution time (µs): 23238.235458
CPU 2 DPC total execution time (s): 0.150174
CPU 2 DPC count: 39398
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CPU 3 Interrupt cycle time (s): 18.116847
CPU 3 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 3 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 3 ISR count: 0
CPU 3 DPC highest execution time (µs): 51.249652
CPU 3 DPC total execution time (s): 0.002526
CPU 3 DPC count: 741
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CPU 4 Interrupt cycle time (s): 22.965995
CPU 4 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 4 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 4 ISR count: 0
CPU 4 DPC highest execution time (µs): 21923.829669
CPU 4 DPC total execution time (s): 0.029781
CPU 4 DPC count: 1596
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CPU 5 Interrupt cycle time (s): 24.698076
CPU 5 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 5 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 5 ISR count: 0
CPU 5 DPC highest execution time (µs): 174.880045
CPU 5 DPC total execution time (s): 0.003531
CPU 5 DPC count: 788
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CPU 6 Interrupt cycle time (s): 24.250529
CPU 6 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 6 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 6 ISR count: 0
CPU 6 DPC highest execution time (µs): 23772.865015
CPU 6 DPC total execution time (s): 0.041743
CPU 6 DPC count: 2923
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CPU 7 Interrupt cycle time (s): 29.608003
CPU 7 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 7 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 7 ISR count: 0
CPU 7 DPC highest execution time (µs): 110.244364
CPU 7 DPC total execution time (s): 0.002640
CPU 7 DPC count: 702
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CPU 8 Interrupt cycle time (s): 25.158865
CPU 8 ISR highest execution time (µs): 8.787086
CPU 8 ISR total execution time (s): 0.004346
CPU 8 ISR count: 4853
CPU 8 DPC highest execution time (µs): 258.061787
CPU 8 DPC total execution time (s): 0.014311
CPU 8 DPC count: 2568
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CPU 9 Interrupt cycle time (s): 29.792219
CPU 9 ISR highest execution time (µs): 134.231005
CPU 9 ISR total execution time (s): 0.002048
CPU 9 ISR count: 2076
CPU 9 DPC highest execution time (µs): 21590.231005
CPU 9 DPC total execution time (s): 0.050779
CPU 9 DPC count: 5336
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CPU 10 Interrupt cycle time (s): 20.172989
CPU 10 ISR highest execution time (µs): 4.408572
CPU 10 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000771
CPU 10 ISR count: 817
CPU 10 DPC highest execution time (µs): 187.254105
CPU 10 DPC total execution time (s): 0.017024
CPU 10 DPC count: 2910
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CPU 11 Interrupt cycle time (s): 22.019825
CPU 11 ISR highest execution time (µs): 106.567214
CPU 11 ISR total execution time (s): 0.003849
CPU 11 ISR count: 4079
CPU 11 DPC highest execution time (µs): 137.186752
CPU 11 DPC total execution time (s): 0.018729
CPU 11 DPC count: 2687