Quote Originally Posted by 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.
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