I have XP and my speakers make chirping sounds anytime an
audio file is played. Occassionally the chirping sounds
go away but it is usually present. I bought new speakers
and the problem persists.

Bob wrote:

> I have XP and my speakers make chirping sounds anytime an
> audio file is played. Occassionally the chirping sounds
> go away but it is usually present. I bought new speakers
> and the problem persists.

With "chirping" sound do you mean a very short, loud,
and high-pitched sound occurring irregularly during
playback?

Try playing both uncompressed (WAV) and compressed
(MP3, OGG...) sound files with various data rates,
and see if that has any effect on how (and how often)
the chirping occurs. I suspect that the decompressor
or the sound card driver is not up to its task -- a bad
or a badly decompressed sequence of compressed sound
data might cause just such artefacts as you heard.
I have had them in my computer, too, running Windows 98.

See if updating the sound card drivers helps.
The files could be damaged, too, if you got them
by downloading from Internet.

Juha-Petri Tyrkko