Hi,
I am having issues with audio. I am using headphones via rear jack of my PC. But while playing audio, there are breaks in between playing audio. Like the line going dead for a moment. Sometimes for a second but most seems less than a second.
I have downloaded and installed the latest driver (6.0.8955.1 ) provided by the motherboard manufacturer(Asus A520M-A). I have disabled some features as shown in the pic below in Device Manager:
As you can see there is only one enabled ("Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio). Right now the driver for this is 10.0.19041.1. As mentioned earlier, the second entry in the tree (Realtek(R) Audio) has driver 6.0.8955.1. Should not these both have the same drivers?
I have installed the latest chipset drivers (2.13.27.501) from AMD and not ASUS. Will that matter? My specs is as below:
CPU: Ryzen 5 3500x
Graphics: Nvidia 1650
RAM: 16 GB
I tested using both the drivers (10.0.19041.264 and 6.0.8955.1). The driver which causes the least issue is the first one. There are splits but now it is of significantly shorter duration unlike the second one where whole chunks of audio are being skipped. Is there anyway to record the sound output through a good free software? Any suggestions?
Thanks
After quiet some time hunting down the issue. I think I solved it. Looks like there are some sort of driver conflicts.
Two driver files audioendpoint.inf and c_swdevice.inf have the same versions (10.0.19041.1) but DIFFERENT driver dates. The first one has 12/06/2019 while the second one has 06/21/2006. Is this even possible?
After uninstalling and scanning for hardware change in Device Manager, I got a warning in Event Log:
Device SWD\MMDEVAPI\{0.0.0.00000000}.{ba8a4a41-2189-412a-81a6-d027431da88e} was not migrated due to partial or ambiguous match.
Last Device Instance Id: SWD\MMDEVAPI\{0.0.0.00000000}.{02e8c993-5c78-44f7-ae00-bf167db655a8}
Class Guid: {c166523c-fe0c-4a94-a586-f1a80cfbbf3e}
Location Path:
Migration Rank: 0xF00000000000F120
Present: false
Status: 0xC0000719
After which the following log:
Device SWD\MMDEVAPI\{0.0.0.00000000}.{ba8a4a41-2189-412a-81a6-d027431da88e} was configured.
Driver Name: audioendpoint.inf
Class Guid: {c166523c-fe0c-4a94-a586-f1a80cfbbf3e}
Driver Date: 12/06/2019
Driver Version: 10.0.19041.1
Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Section: NO_DRV
Driver Rank: 0xFF0000
Matching Device Id: MMDEVAPI\AudioEndpoints
Outranked Drivers: c_swdevice.inf:SWD\GenericRaw:00FF3001
Device Updated: false
Parent Device: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0887&SUBSYS_104386C7&REV_1003\5&319e220&1&0001
Hence as of now audioendpoint.inf is loaded and the sound issue is fixed
