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Very strange audio issue on Windows 10
Hey everyone.
Just a month ago I bought a new PC built at an Alternate store in my own country. The specs are an Intel i5 6400 core, 16GB of RAM, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 graphics card, and 120GB of SSD + 1TB of storage.
My audio seems to be managed by Realtek audio. When gaming, I several times a day randomly get the window popping up saying a wire disconnected before it gives the same message again, but there's not a thing I notice in sound or even a change in the way the wires lie as I sit still most of the time.
Now, the big issue happened tonight. I was listening to some orchestral music when suddenly I realised the levels sounded off. Some testing later, I realised that the bass was not audible, the vocals sounded like they came from another room, and the levels were just messed up to the point where my headphones sounded broken and it sounded like it had like 10kbps. Tried the headphones I was using on my laptop, there the audio was crisp as it should be. Strange thing? All system sounds on my PC were crisp and as they should've been, it was Chrome and my games that sounded awful.
I checked every setting but couldn't fix it and was forced to reset to a previous version of Windows, thus losing a handful of my programs. That did solve the issue, but after checking all settings I know of, they were all the exact same as when the bug happened.
I can't reset my PC whenever this time bomb decides to go off, so does anyone know what exactly happened, how I can prevent it, and should it happen again, how I can fix it again?
Edit: I found the exact sound it made. When you're listening to an Apple music player of any sort and pull out the headphones' plug only half so that the sound still plays, but only certain bits of it, THOSE are the exact levels that I heard. I should also mention that in Realtek's audio manager, when I clicked to listen through only the left or the right speaker, all audio was perfectly fine, but once that 1 second test wore off it went back to hell. Not sure if that helps anyone, but it sounds fairly relevant.
Last edited by ElithianFox; 19 Aug 2016 at 17:49.
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