Skoobs wrote:
Please someone help me, I've lost too many hours troubleshooting this and I just can't figure it out. I switched my mobo and my cpu that I got from a trade. It's an 8700k and the z370-e motherboard. The crackling was once fixed and after a reboot, it's back. Never going away just when you thought you fixed it. I'm losing my mind with the crackling. Before doing the upgrade everything was fine. That doesn't mean I never had my problems with crackling on the old mobo, I just got to fix it before and now NOTHING I've tried works. I'm looking for the right driver, if anyone has it. This is my last resort making an account on this site. I've scoured the net and lurked the other threads prior to making this.
The original mokichu thread was very specific on how to install clean drivers etc but I think it has since been removed.
https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorerGet driver store explorer, and remove everything HDX, realtek, and avolute, relating to sound devices. (not netoworking stuff of course if it happens to be there, thats unrelated)
Then uninstall the driver from programs and features.
Are you using the UAD drivers? once complete, then you can reinstall the clean new driver package. I had issues with windows trying to install a different version of "avolute software component" through windows update that was causing me problems. That was one of the components that installed on my audio driver package, for the maximus x code. I have sonic studio/nahimic integration but no DTS integration. This is important to know when selecting drivers. I had to go behind the scenes and actually hide that update with the windows show-hide update tool. Do you allow windows to do driver updates for you? If so, start by disabling that.
What version of the sound driver do you use? Also Skoobs, PM sent.
