[fixed: Audio Clicks and Pops with OSD panel enabled AIDA64 v5.30.3500 (Dell SMI + Windows 10 Pro)]

I truly appreciate the quick turn-around with the beta that resolved this audio clicks and pops on Dell laptop.

 

Thank you very much!

[fixed: Audio Clicks and Pops with OSD panel enabled AIDA64 v5.30.3500 (Dell SMI + Windows 10 Pro)]

I have not used Dell software to read those sensor values.

 

However, on the Latitude E6430 (i5-3340M), using HWiNFO64 v5.02-2575 Sensor Status does not appear to exhibit the clicks and pops so far.

 

Is HWiNFO64 using a different access method?

[fixed: Audio Clicks and Pops with OSD panel enabled AIDA64 v5.30.3500 (Dell SMI + Windows 10 Pro)]

Thank you very much for your great suggestion.

 

You're right on!

 

The symptom disappear and I also lost a third of my interested readings.

 

Any possibility this will get fixed?

[fixed: Audio Clicks and Pops with OSD panel enabled AIDA64 v5.30.3500 (Dell SMI + Windows 10 Pro)]

When "Show OSD panel" is enabled, audio output exhibits clicks and pops intermittently, but appears to be multiple of 5 seconds.

With USB audio (DAC), the frequency is ~ once every 30 seconds. From headphone jack, it ~ once every 1 to 3 minutes.

It occurs when playing music from iTunes or VLC.

A simple way to notice this is to play a test tone, e.g., 1-KHz tone from a test CD. 

 

So far, it's reproducible on multiple Dell laptops, latitude e6430 (i5-3340M), latitude e6410 (i7-640M) and vostro 1400 (T7250). 

 

OS - Win 10 Pro (RTM - Build 10240)

iTunes v12.2.2

VLC v2.2.1