In case anyone happened to be looking at this board….
The Audio device is somehow a USB audio device that is on board.
It shares resources with USB ports and a lot of times if you have USB devices plugged in to one of the ports being shared audio can skip and crackle.
The MS update drivers support the audio level normilization, but the volume levels are jacked, if you tur it down low it is still loud and down all the way audio still comes through.
If you use the manufacturers drivers you dont get audio level normilization so DVD, HDTV and LiveTV will be at completely different levels 🙁
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