help: my speakers crackle

G

Guest

hi there,

as of about a month ago, the external speakers i've connected to the pc have
begun to crackle and pop. it's a steady sort of crackle, sorta like an old
vinyl record, and it occurs regardless of whether or not anything is playing
through them: you power on the speakers and they begin to crackle.

at first i figured, "well my speakers must be shot". however, the crackling
sound also comes through my monitor's speakers and through head phones if you
plug them into the pc.

i've checked the connection wiring and it all seems to be in one piece.

does anyone have any ideas or advice? i'm running XP home on an HP media
center m390n. my sound card is the creative sb audigy 2. could something
i've installed have done this? i'm sort of at a loss...

thanks!
 
G

Guest

i ran the sound troubleshooter and it was unable to help. it asked me to
check for hardware conflicts and to make sure the driver i was using was
"signed".

i suppose it must be the sound card somehow, but is crackling a common
symptom for a sound card going bad? it's not like the audio itself is
distorting or cutting out, it just has this popping and crackling over it.
and the crackling itself is inconsistent, some days it sounds worse than
other days.
 
G

Guest

It does not necessarily mean your soundcard is going bad. Have you tried
what Plec mentioned of changing your soundcard to another PCI slot on the
Motherboard? Another item to check is DUST, you may have accumulated
dust which is causing the static/crackling noise. You can buy compressed air
at Circuit City or Best Buy to blow out your system.
 
G

Guest

I have also had this problem for the last couple of months as has my nephew.
On my machine it gets very bad while i'm initially logging on to the
internet. We have tried new speakers and soundcards to no effect. I have no
conflicts on the hardware side of things and am starting to suspect drivers
but as yet have not come up with an answer.
By the way, my nephew and i are running Vista.
Any comments please?
 
G

Guest

I also have the same problem. Dell sent me a replacement sound card. No
difference. I upgraded to Vista Ultimate, no difference. This is extremely
annoying & frustrating. I am about to format the harddrive and reinstall.
Any help would be great.
 
M

MC1981

Hi

Is there a fix for this yet? i have tried all the same things with no avail
and it seems to be worse when there are graphics on the screen

MC
 
J

Jungleman

It turns out in my particular situation that I needed to have the mother
board & sound card replaced. Fortunately my PC was in its last days of the
3 year warranty.
Dell replaced both the motheroard & sound card (different model), and the
problem has gone away at least for 5 days so far.
 

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