CDs make popping sound

[MidiGuy]

Hey! I'm using the on-board audio on the Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus!, and when I play a CD in my CD-ROM (a Delta 52x), I get a popping noise (it seems like it might keep in time with the hard drive accessing, but I'm not sure of that). If I let Windows Media Player (this is WinXP, by the way) rip the audio, I don't hear much, if any, popping in the recording. Anyone got and ideas about how to make this go away?

Thanks!

-Midi

 

[neuralfx]

try enabling digital audio, and see if you still get the popping sounds, if not, then you are most likely getting inteference ..
-neural

 

[MidiGuy]

Ok, here's the latest. I'm not sure where to enable digital audio (I remember a setting for that in WMP, but I can't find it in this version). If I put a CD in the drive and push the play button on the drive itself, I get no popping (and, in my opinion, better quality sound). If I play the CD through WMP or the AudioRack program that came with the mobo, I get the popping. Also, when there is a CD in the drive, if it's spinning, even at a low speed, I can hear a low hiss in my speakers whenever I move my USB mouse! I also just noticed it when I held down a arrow key on my keyboard to move the cursor in this text box. What is that about?!

 

[neuralfx]

go to device manager, cdrom's, and hit the properties of the drive, and hit advanced settings and hit enable digital audio, you will need to reboot ..
you are having some issues, i think interference is playing a part of it somewhere , try that and see what happens, and also, disconnect the audio cable from ur cdrom altogether .. and see what happens ..
-neural

 

[MidiGuy]

Thanks. Apparently, it was already enabled, so now I'll try disabling it to see what happens...

 

[MidiGuy]

Ok, that didn't change anything, so I turned it off, disconnected the CD audio cable, turned back, and still no change. I only unplugged the cable from the CD-ROM drive, not from the mother board. Does that matter?

 

[MidiGuy]

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