Hi,

I am having some issues with my laptop and the sound drivers. Basically what happens is that when im playing music or doing whatever I hear random crackling. However, I have tried my speakers on a different system playing the same audio files and there was no crackling, so I know its not the speakers. Also I have issues with crackling when i plug in my headphones. Anyways, I have an Alienware Aurora m9700 with Vista Home Premium 32-bit, and just reinstalled the sound drivers because I did a fresh install of my OS about a week and a half ago. And, when I install the soundMax drivers I get an error on startup that says "No ADI codec driver is installed". Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Alienware Aurora m9700
Vista Home Premium 32-bit
SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio