Snap Crackle Pop, and no its not my cereal

[hudsonsmith]

On another path, do you have fluorescent or halogen light fixtures? Dimmers? Any other electrical appliances with a transformer?

[eedmond]

My bedroom light is a fluorescent bulb. One of those mini twisted things that plugs into a normal light fixture. I also have a 2nd computer in another room.

-Eric

[Diver01]

I dont know if this is whats happening to your PC, but I had simmilar issues with my Sound Card and inerference. What I found out was the soundcard was picking up interference from the Graphics card. I relocated the sound card to the bottom PCI slot and the interference dissapeared. I dont know if this would help you or not, just thought I would share...

[eedmond]

I dont know if this is whats happening to your PC, but I had simmilar issues with my Sound Card and inerference. What I found out was the soundcard was picking up interference from the Graphics card. I relocated the sound card to the bottom PCI slot and the interference dissapeared. I dont know if this would help you or not, just thought I would share...

I tried that. The sound card was originally in the 3rd PCI slot down from the AGP but then I moved it to the bottom one and I still had the problem.

-Eric

[tommo666]

I got pops and crackles on my sb live 1024 player. I did the lot. Drivers, installed the os over the top. Checked with creative support, who were most helpful seeing as it was an OEM card. Finally did the simple thing, checked the background processes and found it was SETI, that damm prg was throwing noise onto the pci bus. Uninstalled it and the pops got unistalled as well. I occationally get pops now but only in times of heavy CPU load.

Moral of this tale, before diving in feet first, check the easy stuff. But we're human and it's crawl under the desk, fight off years of dust. Prise the case open. Cut your hands on the sharp edges, swear, bang your head on the desk etc :-)))

[eedmond]

I got pops and crackles on my sb live 1024 player. I did the lot. Drivers, installed the os over the top. Checked with creative support, who were most helpful seeing as it was an OEM card. Finally did the simple thing, checked the background processes and found it was SETI, that damm prg was throwing noise onto the pci bus. Uninstalled it and the pops got unistalled as well. I occationally get pops now but only in times of heavy CPU load.

I do have a program called United Devices running in the background working on Cancer research. I will try turning it off when playing and see if the problem goes away. You can look at it here http://www.grid.org/home.htm

On another note I bought a Audigy 2 and installed it. It is 10X better than my Audigy 1 but I still get a few pops here and there, seems to do it usually under load. Gonna try turning of UD and see what happens. Would never have thought of a program like SETI or UD causing sound issues.

-Eric

[Archer]

Does it crackle when you are in safe mode?

Do you have anything electrical nearby?

[hudsonsmith]

My bedroom light is a fluorescent bulb. One of those mini twisted things that plugs into a normal light fixture. I also have a 2nd computer in another room.

-Eric

Does it pop if the light is off? 2nd computer shouln't matter - you're concerned about electrical equipment with transformers. I would experiment with turning off other equipment on the same circuit.