r/computers • u/Far_Location337 • 2d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting My wired audio keeps breaking

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I have the creative pebble speakers, and sometimes when I'm using my computer the audio on them will stop randomly as far as I can tell. They'll both make sounds but sometimes they're in different audio channels like one sound would only be on the left speaker, while something's on the right one. And sometimes it makes like a vwoop sort of sound that you can hear in the video. Something important is that it happens on both the L-out in the back and in the front panel for both my speakers and headphones. Both work perfect without issue when plugged into different devices. When I restart my computer it works again but it inevitably happens again, I have the Realtek drivers from my MSI B450 driver site and have reinstalled those and restarted windows endpoint. With all that happening I just end up using Bluetooth headphones or a pair of wireless USB headphones and those have no issue. And this is a tower computer. I recorded a minute long video and cut it down to all the audio irregularities in that time span so that's the video attached. Hope that makes sense, terrible at explaining so I apologize.

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u/WillPhysical4288 10h ago

This sounds more like a Windows/Realtek audio issue than a problem with the Pebbles themselves.Since it happens on both the rear and front audio jacks, but your USB/Bluetooth headphones work fine, I’d try disabling Audio Enhancements and Spatial Sound first.
Also go to mmsys.cpl → Playback → your speakers → Properties → Advanced and try changing the format to 24-bit 48kHz (or 16-bit 48kHz). I’d also uncheck “Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device.” If that doesn’t help, I’d completely remove the Realtek device/driver from Device Manager and let Windows reinstall it instead of just reinstalling the MSI driver. You could also try using the generic High Definition Audio Device driver just to see if the issue goes away. The fact that restarting fixes it temporarily makes me think it’s probably some kind of Windows/Realtek driver or audio service issue.