How to fix windows10sound that is not working? - audio

I've recently run into an annoying issue, my windows10 sound is not working at all. I've tried to reinstall the drivers, manually start sound services, but none of the above fixed the issue. What is really strange about it is that the PC seems to detect that the drivers are installed properly, the speaker icon has no x mark, instead it displays the volume bar, but nothing comes out of the speakers. tried the speakers on another computer and can tell its not the speakers that are faulty.
Any helpwould be much appreciated. Thank.
I reinstalled the audio drivers, manualy restarted the audio service, checked motherboard bios, nothing works

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PulseAudio static noise for 10 minutes after boot

I am building a Bluetooth audio receiver as an embedded system with the CHIP sbc (single board computer) from getchip.com. Pretty similar to Raspberry Pi, runs Debian Jessie, too.
I am using the onboard 3.5mm jack as an audio output. I configured PulseAudio to receive the Bluetooth audio and redirect it to the ALSA sound driver.
Everything works flawlessly except for static noise on the output.
Directly after boot there is a medium loud sum in the few hundred Hz region.
It´s always in the background, even if I play something via bluetooth or locally via CLI.
The interesting part is that it disappears after exactly 10min and 10sec after powerup, so I think exactly 10min after the startup of PulseAudio or ALSA.
I couldn´t find a reason for it.
I tried the tsched=0 fix in /etc/pulse/system.pa
I unloaded the module suspend-on-idle in /etc/pulse/system.pa
And by the way, I´m running PulseAudio in system-mode, as I´m using it as an embedded system and not a multi-user configuration. I hope I get help from you anyway ;-)
Maybe you have an idea where this noise could come from?
It has to be some sort of software configuration issue, otherwise it wouldn´t disappear after exactly 10mins.
I´ll add the PulseAudio and ALSA configuration files later this day.
Thanks in advance!
Fortunately I solved the problem on my own:
The C.H.I.P. from NextThing has a 3.5mm TRRS jack, which does not only output stereo audio but component video as well.
Now if you plug in a standard 3.5mm jack, the ground pin does does interfere with the component video connector.
Thats why there was this humming noise on the audio output. And thats why it disappeared exactly after 10mins, because the screen idle time is 10min, I think.
So I have to admit, that it was indeed not a programming question as it was a connection issue. Thanks anyway for the quick answer!

DPC latency caused by NIC

I have audio crackling and stuttering for a few days now. I don't know why it started doing that. It's really annoying because even dragging a window around makes the sound stutter and watching a 4K video is almost impossible.
I believe the problem comes from my NIC, Intel 82579V. I downloaded DPC Latendy Checker and when I start downloading at a few mbps (torrent) I have a DPC latency of around 8000 to 16000µs. Doesn't matter if it's 3mbps or 600mbps. When I disable the NIC or stop all network traffic I'm back to 1000µs.
I tried reinstalling the drivers by uninstalling and letting Windows reinstall.
Any idea how to fix this ?
It does it with onboard audio and through nVidia display port audio.
Specs : Intel i7 3770k #4.2GHz, Z77A-GD55, GTX 780.
Thanks.
There's a couple avenues you can take:
Contact the system/board manufacturer or PC supplier.
Post the issue on communities.intel.com Wired Ethernet blog.
https://communities.intel.com/community/wired
There might be others already seeing the same issue and complaining about it in the same ways listed above.

Windows 8.1 Bluetooth searching issue

I have a windows 8.1 based lap top which supports Bluetooth.
I wrote a java based bluetooth server which gets connections from Android.
The issue is, the device sometimes get invisible(or to say not shown) on android devices.
I've tried with other laptops or Android phones, but sometimes it just doesn't get searched.
I think it's not about my java server program. Even if there's a problem with my program, it should at least be shown on the bluetooth search list of other devices.
I found a very crude solution about this issue.
Always running the 'change pc settings(not the exact name)' app of windows 8.1, and going to 'PC, devices' -> Bluetooth makes it always searchable. If I turn this off(I mean the 'change pc settings' app, not turning off bluetooth), the bluetooth cannot be found by other devices.
Why is this happening? My purpose is, bluetooth server must be turned on automatically after boot, but the reliability of the bluetooth device is failing my intention. However, since my crude solution above is temporarily solving my issue, I do not think it's a hardware issue.
So, my question is :
1) Why is this happening? And how can I mend this?
2) How can I run windows metro app through windows shell? If I can't find any other solution about this, I will have to write a batch script to always run the solution thing above.
Going to Change PC Settings>PC and devices>Bluetooth is initiating a Bluetooth device search. As a side effect, the Bluetooth is also made Discoverable (pairing mode). However, this Discoverable setting is temporary, only while the PC is searching for remote Bluetooth devices.
If you wish to keep Bluetooth Discoverable at all times, you need to check the "Allow Bluetooth devices to find this PC" button box, found in Bluetooth Settings. I found Bluetooth settings by right clicking the Bluetooth system icon. Can also be found in Devices and Printers, by right clicking the Bluetooth adapter icon.

Trouble with audio in Windows 8

Recently, my computer has been acting rather strange. All audio is muted and any time I try to watch a Youtube video the player ends up crashing. I can't seem to find anyone who has had a similar problem but I think I may have found some kind of clue: While trying to run a project I made in C++/python for the Panda3d engine I kept on getting these errors:
AL lib: DoReset: Failed to initialize audio client:0x8889000f
:audio(error): alcCreateContext(_device,NULL): Invalid Device
:audio(error): OpenALAudioManager: No open device or context
I have no idea what this means as I am not very knowledgeable of computers.
it is hard to say a lot without more details, but it appears as though the computer is not detecting your audio device. Try right clicking on the computer icon in metro, and selecting manage. Go to the device manager and see if there are any devices that have a yellow exclamation point. if they do, install drivers from the vendor. If not try updating your audio drivers, and restarting.

DAC pops on Song Start/Stop in Raspbian

This has been a plaguing issue for the Raspberry Pi install of Raspbian (Debian Wheezy) since it was first built. Talking directly to the Raspberry Pi foundation and the Raspbian team has given me no luck.
The issue itself is that the DAC doesn't initialize until it starts playing a song. It then will turn itself off when done, causing another pop. When using this for a pure music player it is infuriating to say the least, especially when the pop is loud.
I have heard this on VLC, MOCP and MPD. This has been covered in the Pi forums, but no answers are found: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=8783
I turn to you at Stack Overflow to see if there is a way to solve this issue. My idea is to initialize it at start-up so the pop only happens when it boots up, though I don't know how to control the ALSA to do that.
Hopefully a solution can be found.
Thanks!
I've experienced the same crackling and popping noises on the Raspberry Pi's analog output when using mpd. The problem is also discussed here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/128
Your idea of configuring the audio hardware to be initialized only once at boot time is exactly what I did to solve the problem. It's possible to do this using the PulseAudio sound system, which works as a proxy between the audio hardware and programs that want to output sound. For example, audio players like mpd can be configured to use PulseAudio as audio backend.
PulseAudio has a configuration option (module-suspend-on-idle) that configures audio hardware sleep. Disabling audio hardware sleep fixed all crackling and popping noises for me.
I've outlined the necessary steps in closer detail on my blog: http://dbader.org/blog/crackle-free-audio-on-the-raspberry-pi-with-mpd-and-pulseaudio
I have the same problem and resolution is to use either USB audio or HDMI audio output (however converting hdmi audio to analog audio is not easy, converter >40$). It is caused by broadcom firmware. They were saying on rpi forum that it is on the list, but no one knows when it will be really fixed ...
Update: I have tried Creative Play! USB audio, it is the same, however the "click" is not that loud. So it is not 100% solution, we have to wait for the fix.
By using the Aureon Dual USB sound card I got zero popping from my raspi. Before I had popping at every song.
I have read that using the Aureon is impossible without limiting the usb ports to version 1.1, but this was not the case for me. It worked out of the box. One slight problem remains, I cannot insert the sound card when the raspi is on, it will reboot. But that's not a problem for me, I never remove the sound card.
My raspi runs raspbian wheezy and plays music via mpd and an nfs share.

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