Latest Realtek HD Audio Driver Version [3]

sandyt said:

"Popping" at the beginning and end of audio playing generally means the audio chip is going in and out of sleep (power management).

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One assumes that your headphone has its own physical volume control. The other assumes you don't have a physical volume control.

Interesting theory, but doesn't really make sense it would output at an ear deafening level. Dangerous at best.

Any way to control the max level, maybe a registry tweak ?

FatTonyBubatz said:

Interesting theory, but doesn't really make sense it would output at an ear deafening level. Dangerous at best.

Any way to control the max level, maybe a registry tweak ?

The only way to have separate volume level is to make front panel a separate device.

How to Set Volume Levels for Speaker and Headphones Separately - Windows 10 - Lenovo Support CA

Any idea how to fix it ? I tried registry tweak but it still pops.
My headphones doesn't have physical volume control. I'm using Kingston HyperX Cloud Core

sandyt said:

"Popping" at the beginning and end of audio playing generally means the audio chip is going in and out of sleep (power management).

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One assumes that your headphone has its own physical volume control. The other assumes you don't have a physical volume control.

sandyt said:

If the popping sound only occurs when it wakes up to make a sound and when it stop making a sound (and goes to sleep), then it is a power management issue that can only be fixed by driver updates.

You can see Realtek's technical specs on their audio chipset has a "anti-pop" feature --- aka we can wake up and sleep our audio chipset without making a popping sound. The problem is that it doesn't always work.

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If updating to the latest Dell driver doesn't help, contact Dell.

I tried latest driver from dell for my laptop and it still pops. I also found newer from x15 r1 laptop which has same realtek chipset. But still pops. Now i tried to use DDU while in safeboot to completely remove Realtek and then installed latest driver from Dell. I need to test it for a little longer.

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censored224 said:

I tried latest driver from dell for my laptop and it still pops. I also found newer from x15 r1 laptop which has same realtek chipset. But still pops. Now i tried to use DDU while in safeboot to completely remove Realtek and then installed latest driver from Dell. I need to test it for a little longer.

So today technician came and replaced my motherboard. It was fine for like 3 hours and it came back so it is definitely driver/software kind of problem.

As I said earlier, it is a power management issue.

Either is Dell making very aggressive power saving settings to prolong battery life or that their Waves MaxxPro Audio/Realtek driver combo have a certain power management bug.

https://www.dell.com/community/Windo...r/td-p/7411038

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MUC has 9254 UAD and 1.0.0.447 software components.

MUC has 9258 UAD and Realtek Audio Effects 11.0.6000.978.

sandyt said:

MUC has 9258 UAD and Realtek Audio Effects 11.0.6000.978.

Thank you!