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High-pitched tone coming from nowhere - what's causing this?

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Acragas

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Hi all, I was hoping someone could help me track down a constant (and annoying) problem I've been having.

So basically what happens is, I'll be in the middle of something - usually a game, though I've had this problem while watching a video on media player too - is that suddenly my speakers will start emitting a single, high-pitched tone, and that's all that will happen until i reboot my computer. This used to only be a sporadic problem, but now it's happening with increased regularity - this happens every time i load Medal of Honor, for instance. If anyone can help me out, I'd appreciate it (greatly!)

My system is:
AMD Athlon 1.33 ghz 266fsb
IWill KK266 Motherboard
256 MB Kingmax PC150 SDRAM
Winfast Geforce 3 Ti200
Sondblaster Live Platinum
Maxtor 40 gb hard drive
 
Do you have a microphone connected? Sometimes it picks up from the loudspeakers and you have this high pitched sound.
 
Nope, no microphone - was one of the first things i checked.

Even then, the problem isn't intereference with the sound - the only sound i get is this screeching tone. I'm pretty sure it's a hardware-related issue (I have a windows 98 and XP dual-boot, and i get the same problem in both OS's).
 
Sounds like a conflict with the sound card. If the sound card configuration has an acceleration setting, try turning that down one notch at a time until the problem goes away. On my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz I had to drop it several notches before the lockups went away.
 
As it turns out, disabling the soundblaster live platinum stopped the lockups immediatly. i can run anything program through my motherboard's c-media hardware.

There's really no feeling quite like watching your $175 sound card get outperformed by a $5 audio chip on the motherboard.

So, I guess the thread now should be, "how do i get my Soundblaster to run under XP without locking up?" I'm currently using the VIA 4-in-1 version 4.37 and Soundblaster Live XP ver. 3509.2.0.0 drivers. Anyone know the best driver combination, or what else i can try?
 
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