Ok, thanks for the info. And thanks for helping me with this.

For now, all I need is something good enough for game chat, so I've ordered a USB one. But in the future, I'll need something good enough for sound recording, so I was going to pick up a better PCI...

Ok, all drivers are installed, all updates are installed, and the microphone is always fuzzy. I'd really rather not spend a bunch of money on a sound card, but it's not looking like I have much...

So a clean install didn't fix it.

That's what I was afraid of. I guess I'll try that.

It worked perfectly until I upgraded to Windows 10. Initial research showed that it was hopeless apart from waiting for Realtek to fix it, so I waited. I recently looked into it again, found out...

It's an Xcilo. It didn't have a front audio panel. The only ports it has are the USB and FireWire on the top.

Apart from the rear I/O panel, I have a DVD burner, Blu Ray burner, Rosewill all-in-one card reader with USB 2.0 and 3.0, a USB 3.0 panel, and on top is a USB 2.0 and Firewire port.

Ok. Most of those things were already set right, but there were a few in the registry that had the wrong value. The BIOS already had the SSD at AHCI, so that didn't change. I'm still having the...

Here's the stats screen copy/pasted

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I ran it for an hour and a half, and what it said was "Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as...

No, it said it has problems. It recommended disabling CPU throttling, and updating the BIOS. CPU throttling was never enabled, though.

Distortion happens at all volume levels. The program recommended updating my BIOS.

No, it's not specific.

Yeah, it's in the rear I/O panel. That's the only place I have for audio.

My microphone is giving really fuzzy audio with multiple microphones tried. It's a Realtek audio card, but updating to the latest driver (August 2017) didn't fix it. I've also tried disabling all...

Thanks for the reply. I actually just figured out what the problem is. Malwarebytes was blocking it with its zero-day protection, so I had to put Firefox on the exception list.

I'm running Windows 10, and a couple days ago, both Google Chrome and Firefox stopped working. I can open them, but Firefox doesn't open any of my tabs that I had, instead opening a single tab that...

It says my system is up to date. It did install some updates, but not the specified one, and my build is the same.

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Yeah. And all those options are available except the one to change app location. That's greyed out and unchangeable.

I have a small SSD holding my OS, and a large HDD for everything else. I am trying to change the default install path to my storage drive, but when I go to settings, system, storage, I am unable to...

I know. I tried that, and it didn't work. Disabling fastboot is what did it for me.

This fixed my problem, thanks!