HUGE HUGE HUGE REVELATION

[Comdrpopnfresh]

I've tried a bunch of stuff- that may even be an understatement. But you know what I just stumbled upon that works? LOAD THE CPU. My computer starts Folding@Home at logon- and I usually let it go until it starts crunching numbers. I opened itunes after the latest try to get my X-Fi pci card to work, and forgot to 'pause' folding as I typically do. CRYSTAL FRIGGIN CLEAR!
Then I thought- oh wow, this really sucks... how am I going to play games if my graphics card is busy folding? Turn off folding- static starts up again... Then for some reason I decided to run orthos and load both cpu cores. BINGO. GPU is not loaded at the least, though the cpu is...

I'm fairly confident that this is not a complete solution- but could present a solution no one has ever come across.
So my question to you is this:
What is different in a system with minimal cpu loading and a system with a loaded cpu; and, how might it point to what's wrong with X-Fi?

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

could someone please try this?

 

[zerogear]

I remember getting crackes before in X-Fi, I turned off Cool & Quiet (On my AMD system-It was a nVidia chipset, ick) and it went away. Never had a problem with Intel system/chipset. You may want to try and disable speedstep if you have it enabled?

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

tried that before. I like my overclock anyhow. Though, as a note, I have a motherboard (asus p5n-d) with the nvidia 750i chipset.

 

[zerogear]

Originally posted by: Comdrpopnfresh
tried that before. I like my overclock anyhow. Though, as a note, I have a motherboard (asus p5n-d) with the nvidia 750i chipset.

Most of the crackling problem documented with X-Fi stems from nVidia chipsets , which is unfortunate, considering nvidia is the only one that can do SLI besides some X58 boards.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

How true. Though, I used to own an a8n32-sli deluxe... with the nf4 chipset that was supposedly incompatible with x-fi sound cards- I never once had a problem. Supposedly nvidia/creative released fixes, and the there should be no problems with anything past the nf4 chipset; including my 750i... yet here I am with a solution