Audio Buzzing/Stuttering

[Spuuky]

UPDATE PLEASE

I'm so tired of working on large-scale network outages. I need something small and irrelevant to work on again.

[o_O]

Are any of these issues occurring specifically with the AC unplugged?

I've had a dv6 and a dv7 (seriously, wtf is wrong with your engineers, HP?), and on both of them it was completely impossible to use it on battery power because the useless HP power management applet fought the windows power manager to the death. In manifested in the form of everything slowing to an absolute crawl, though not quite to the same extent as yours. The only way I was able to get around it was to disable power management completely and just have both applets set to maximum never-switch-off earth-destroying mode.

[Mirage]

Are you sure it is completely safe to rule out memory issues? I mean sure, bsods would be likely to happen with that, but maybe it is possible that the memory problem is slight enough for the os to not explode.

One thing you could try but that is kind of annoying to do if you don't just happen to have the right device, is to test the audio with an usb sound card and see if that makes any difference. I don't expect you to have one of those, though.

[Sephex]

UPDATE PLEASE

I'm so tired of working on large-scale network outages. I need something small and irrelevant to work on again.

My bad, I was busy last week with lots of over time (notice I been posting on the forum sparsely, also only at work) and I didn't have a chance to tinker with it. I finally did everything you said. Getting rid of the drive guard seems to have helped. I haven't encountered and streaming video buzzing, but most steam games that should run flawlessly still have audio skipping here and there.

So long story short, all this tinkering seems to have helped get my computer to run smoother, but it hasn't completely elimated the problem.

[Spuuky]

So the same thing happens under multiple user accounts? That rules a lot out, really (unfortunately, a lot of the easiest stuff to fix).

Probably you'd just have to reformat with a clean Windows install (without any HP stuff except actual drivers) to really fix it.

[Sephex]

So the same thing happens under multiple user accounts? That rules a lot out, really (unfortunately, a lot of the easiest stuff to fix).

Probably you'd just have to reformat with a clean Windows install (without any HP stuff except actual drivers) to really fix it.

I'm thinking the same thing. Thanks for the tips regardless, they did help as I said earlier.

[edczxcvbnm]

Next time I am over I will have to hi jack your laptop and do what I do. This time I will uninstall, delete and clean up the registry from any HP crap that might be going on. I could even do it while RMing this weekend at SEEEEAAAAAAAAN!'s place.

I think the thing that makes this occur is that processor kicking it up a gear with the fan and because of this shift, some software interfering with it. Instead of just a 1 second frame skip or something in a video or whatever, it does this weird buzzing thing that has become hilarious.

[Sephex]

Cool. Thanks for offering to help. However, and I don't know why, but I haven't experienced any buzzing in quite some time. Though the music skipping in low end games are still there. I don't know! ARHJDSGHJKGHJSKLDGHJLKSDLSDHJKSDHGJKh

[CimminyCricket]

TLDR;

Have you tried running the onboard HP diagnostics? If you haven't, give it a try and they might turn something up.

[Old Manus]

This sort of thing happened with me once on an old laptop of mine a few years ago. It turned out that the thermal compound on my heatsinks was shot and it was running at a high temperature, which led to things getting temporarily undervolted for a few seconds every few minutes.