Story:
When I first dual booted the laptop everything was great for the first few months. Then I discovered the extra amplification that Ubuntu provides, and really cranked up the volume. A week or two later my speakers were garbled and dropped all sound after a few seconds. I assumed I'd blown out the speakers, so I ordered replacements from ASUS. I was using Ubuntu as my daily driver so I didn't check at this time what they were doing in Windows. Replacement speakers behaved exactly the same as previous speakers within a few hours of install. I discovered at this point that the sound worked perfectly in Windows. I tested headphones and they work great in Windows, but behave exactly the same as the laptop speakers in Ubuntu: garbled while cutting in-and-out for about 3-5 seconds before dropping off completely. I've since been trying different solutions, but mostly wound up back on Windows for other reasons, so I haven't bothered to find a resolution yet... but I cannot figure this out, and would love some input.
TL;DR:
Dual-booted laptop used Ubuntu's over-amplification, speakers when to shit. Replaced speakers, no change. Tried headphones, they are garbled like speakers. Windows sound works great.
ASUS ZenBook Specs:
- Intel Core i7-10510U
- 16GB RAM
- 512GB PCIe SSD
- GeForce GTX 1650
- Replaced Speakers with official OEM ASUS speakers
Attempted Solutions:
Check that I'm not being stupid and have the correct source for audio output (Confirmed because it works for a few seconds)
Installed Volume Control for Pulseaudio
sudo apt install pavucontrol
Checked alsa mixer
Reloaded alsa
sudo alsa force-reload
Remove and reinstall pulse and alsa
sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends pulseaudio alsa-base alsa-utils
sudo apt install pulseaudio alsa-base alsa-utils
Reinstalled Firefox, then tested VLC and Spotify application, no sound on anything.
This question's resolution says that... "This problem occurs after booting into a different OS than previously." I tried shutting down and booting Ubuntu multiple times with reboots and hard shut downs etc... all without ever booting back into Windows but to no avail.
Updating Windows and Ubuntu's audio drivers, but none were available, the latest drivers were already installed.
Disabled Windows Fast Startup
