AUDIO CRACKLING, POPPING, STUTTERING

[KMPyle]

Hi,

I have an HP Pavilion x360 11-n000ea laptop, and I have the same problem descirbed above with my sound - through the speaker or through headphones, all audio files play with a horrible crackling distortion that makes it pretty much impossible to listen to anything.

I tried the updates suggested above but they're not compatible with my laptop.

Do you have any help or suggestions more specific to my device?

Thank you!

[beeldraam]

Try this solution: [Solved]: Crackling sounds on pavilion x360: Setting up number of processors as '4'

[HarryTholen]

This solution worked for me, at last no crackling or popping when playing music!

I opened the task manager in windows 10. (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) while playing music through youtube. I noticed every time the crackeling/popping sound was heared, a proces called "CDA server" spiked when looking at the processor activity. I deactivated the proces and the mindblowingly irritating crackeling was GONE!

Try it! I had tried aplethora of solutions, reinstalling OS and drivers, you name it. No sigar. But this did it!

I found this info online and the process does noet seem to be vital for the OS,

http://www.file.net/process/cdasrv.exe.html

[FromAreaUnknown]

The problem for me was a screw lying around on the MB. It caused shorts every once in awhile. 

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers multiple times and even restored a couple prior images of my OS until finally I heard the screw rolling around when I picked up my laptop.