First post, by thepirategamerboy12
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So, my main laptop is from around 2012 and while it is nearly 10 years old, I honestly find it still mostly pretty usable for doing web browsing and various other light tasks. The problem is that I installed a Crucial MX500 1TB SSD in it (transferred the data to it from the original mechanical drive) and while loading times in general were incredibly reduced, I started noticing something I swear I never did before: occasional clicks/pops/drop-outs in the audio when playing YouTube videos, music in MPC-HC, etc. and also other effects like some emulators stuttering pretty badly at random.
I checked a program called LatencyMon and the latency constantly gets to some ridiculously high spikes, like nearly maxing out the meter. I don't know how installing an SSD would cause this or if its just a coincidence, but I don't recall any of this before doing so. The driver causing the highest DPC latency is ndis.sys, relating to my network drivers, so I tried older and newer drivers to no avail, and even if I disable the network/WiFi drivers entirely, LatencyMon still shows crazy latency with no driver really associating with it.
I am about ready to pull my hair out, I really don't want to reinstall Windows because this machine has so much stuff on it. Reinstalling all that would be such a pain in the ass. I've looked through so many tutorials, forum posts, and nothing has helped. This is my last resort, any help here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
