A conflict between the Windows Sound drivers and ASIO drivers – This issue is confirmed to appear in those situations where the users use both the Windows Sound driver and the ASIO driver with different sound format frequencies.
Affected users have found various solutions that resolve the problem temporarily such as unplugging > plugging the headphones, restarting the computer, or temporarily disabling the audio driver.
Audio driver glitch – This seems to be a recurrent bug with some motherboard models.