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I don't remember this happening before about a week ago. My newest win
11 box in my shop has a monitor with speakers. If I have been away from
it for a little, when I go to the volume to adjust sound, it makes a
single pop like sound. Kinda like when you first turn on an older
stereo system. Just writing this post, it's been less than a minute and
I just went back and it does it again. Doesn't matter if I go up or
down on the volume. It just makes that little pop and then works as usual.

I tried changing the format and am using 24 bit 48000Hz now, and I
turned off audio enhancements. Anyone have an idea where to start
trying to eliminate this noise?
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sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

I don't remember this happening before about a week ago. My newest win
11 box in my shop has a monitor with speakers. If I have been away from
it for a little, when I go to the volume to adjust sound, it makes a
single pop like sound. Kinda like when you first turn on an older
stereo system. Just writing this post, it's been less than a minute and
I just went back and it does it again. Doesn't matter if I go up or
down on the volume. It just makes that little pop and then works as usual.

I tried changing the format and am using 24 bit 48000Hz now, and I
turned off audio enhancements. Anyone have an idea where to start
trying to eliminate this noise?

Adjusting the volume where? Via controls on the monitor itself, or via
the OS volume level control?

My guess is the monitor is sleeping its audio circuitry, and upon
regaining power to audio there is the pop noise to resume audio output.
Does the monitor have sleep/low-power settings that you could disable?
How about monitor or audio sleep/low-power settings in the power options
in Windows?
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On 3/31/2026 3:31 PM, VanguardLH wrote:

sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

I don't remember this happening before about a week ago. My newest win
11 box in my shop has a monitor with speakers. If I have been away from
it for a little, when I go to the volume to adjust sound, it makes a
single pop like sound. Kinda like when you first turn on an older
stereo system. Just writing this post, it's been less than a minute and
I just went back and it does it again. Doesn't matter if I go up or
down on the volume. It just makes that little pop and then works as usual. >>
I tried changing the format and am using 24 bit 48000Hz now, and I
turned off audio enhancements. Anyone have an idea where to start
trying to eliminate this noise?

Adjusting the volume where? Via controls on the monitor itself, or via
the OS volume level control?

I leave the monitor volume almost all the way up. Turning it down just
makes the pop less loud, but it still does it. It pops if I place the
cursor over the volume audio icon in the right corner of the taskbar,
and also if I use the keyboard volume controls. Like I said, this is
new. I've been using this thing for awhile now and it seems to have
recently started.

My guess is the monitor is sleeping its audio circuitry, and upon
regaining power to audio there is the pop noise to resume audio output.
Does the monitor have sleep/low-power settings that you could disable?

No. Nothing as far as sound output

How about monitor or audio sleep/low-power settings in the power options
in Windows?

I checked, and I didn't see anything in there at all as far as power
options go. Also, this is a desktop so I use it full throttle all the time.

Maybe the driver got corrupted somehow? I guess I could uninstall it
and let windows reinstall it and see if it goes away.
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On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:24:57 -0500, sticks <wolverine01@charter.net>
wrote:

<...>

My newest win
11 box in my shop has a monitor with speakers. If I have been away from
it for a little, when I go to the volume to adjust sound, it makes a
single pop like sound.

Anyone have an idea where to start trying to eliminate this noise?

As a first step, drive the monitor speakers from another source, or
drive other speakers from the PC. The idea being to determine whether
the issue lies with the PC or the monitor. Then proceed accordingly.

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On 3/31/2026 6:29 PM, Char Jackson wrote:

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:24:57 -0500, sticks <wolverine01@charter.net>
wrote:

<...>

My newest win
11 box in my shop has a monitor with speakers. If I have been away from
it for a little, when I go to the volume to adjust sound, it makes a
single pop like sound.

Anyone have an idea where to start trying to eliminate this noise?

As a first step, drive the monitor speakers from another source, or
drive other speakers from the PC. The idea being to determine whether
the issue lies with the PC or the monitor. Then proceed accordingly.

I went ahead and uninstalled all the sound devices and restarted. So
far, it looks like that might have solved the problem. Something got corrupted I guess.

If it comes back, I'll get the laptop out and do as you've suggested.
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On 3/31/2026 6:55 PM, sticks wrote:

On 3/31/2026 6:29 PM, Char Jackson wrote:

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:24:57 -0500, sticks <wolverine01@charter.net>
wrote:

<...>

My newest win
11 box in my shop has a monitor with speakers.  If I have been away from >>> it for a little, when I go to the volume to adjust sound, it makes a
single pop like sound.

Anyone have an idea where to start trying to eliminate this noise?

As a first step, drive the monitor speakers from another source, or
drive other speakers from the PC. The idea being to determine whether
the issue lies with the PC or the monitor. Then proceed accordingly.

I went ahead and uninstalled all the sound devices and restarted.  So
far, it looks like that might have solved the problem.  Something got corrupted I guess.

If it comes back, I'll get the laptop out and do as you've suggested.

For some reason the box started up overnight and did something, then
went back to sleep. I only know this because I use CoreTemp and it was
in the wrong place from where I leave it on the taskbar.

When I started using it, yes the pop was back. So I uninstalled
everything again, and this time I got one additional audio thing I
missed. It's up at the very top of Device Manager list. It was either
1. Audio inputs and outputs, or 2. Audio Processing Objects. Upon
restart the pop is gone and the sound volume works normally again.

Unfortunately I uninstalled and restarted before I used the powercfg
-lastwake command, so I'm not sure what caused the restart. A bunch of
crap in the event viewer to look through, but I saw nothing obvious.

See if it comes back this time.
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On 4/1/2026 10:51 AM, sticks wrote:

On 3/31/2026 6:55 PM, sticks wrote:

On 3/31/2026 6:29 PM, Char Jackson wrote:

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:24:57 -0500, sticks <wolverine01@charter.net>
wrote:

<...>

My newest win
11 box in my shop has a monitor with speakers.  If I have been away
from
it for a little, when I go to the volume to adjust sound, it makes a
single pop like sound.

Anyone have an idea where to start trying to eliminate this noise?

As a first step, drive the monitor speakers from another source, or
drive other speakers from the PC. The idea being to determine whether
the issue lies with the PC or the monitor. Then proceed accordingly.

I went ahead and uninstalled all the sound devices and restarted.  So
far, it looks like that might have solved the problem.  Something got
corrupted I guess.

If it comes back, I'll get the laptop out and do as you've suggested.

For some reason the box started up overnight and did something, then
went back to sleep.  I only know this because I use CoreTemp and it was
in the wrong place from where I leave it on the taskbar.

When I started using it, yes the pop was back.  So I uninstalled
everything again, and this time I got one additional audio thing I
missed.  It's up at the very top of Device Manager list.  It was either
1. Audio inputs and outputs, or 2. Audio Processing Objects.  Upon
restart the pop is gone and the sound volume works normally again.

Unfortunately I uninstalled and restarted before I used the powercfg - lastwake command, so I'm not sure what caused the restart.  A bunch of
crap in the event viewer to look through, but I saw nothing obvious.

See if it comes back this time.

Well it did come back. I was looking into my windows updates and about
two weeks ago it updated some Realtek Audio drivers. I went into device manager/sound, video and game controllers and rolled back the driver for Realtek Audio from the installed one a couple weeks ago to version
6.0.9894.1 9/30/2025 and that appears to have fixed the problem.

I believe Vanguard was on target when he suggested power was being put
to sleep on the audio device, and the new driver somehow changed that
setting. Searching a bit, I found there is another way to completely eliminate that Realtek problem with a reg change, and if it updates the
driver again and it comes back I will do that next.

<https://blog.radiokot.com.ua/realtek-audio-popping-fix>
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