Sound Card making Crackling noises???

[dannylu88]

Hi all,

I hope you guys can help me out with this one... I have an audigy zs 2 card that has been acting weird recently, its not the speakers because I have headphones attached to it and it has the same sounds on the headphones too. The problem started very recently problems like around an hour ago.

I system restored to the last known good setting and it was still messed up... then I thought maybe the sound card was loose... (im a noob) I opened up my computer and cleaned off my dusty sound card and restarted. At first I thought it worked and was experiencing no problems. Then, when I started viewing an online video site (youtube) then the problems reappeared again. This happened another time before. Maybe the video sites have something to do with it... everytime I send and receive an IM i get crackling noise, when I try to listen to music, I get the same noise...

Any Ideas??

Thanks in advance guys

p.s if nothing else works I might just format my desktop again

p.p.s I already have the latest drivers

 

[PurdueRy]

The only time I have had this happen was occasionally when I enable echo cancellation or background noise suppression on my logitech webcam...its a long shot but maybe you have one?

 

[dannylu88]

nope i dont have a webcam attached to my desktop...

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i have the same problem now and then. i get this random 1 second spasm of cracking from my speakers. what OS are you using? i BELIEVE it is a problem with VISTA/network (i think) i'm using a PCI wireless adapter.

 

[dannylu88]

Im actually still using XP PRo... the desktop I've been using has been fine for like 6 months now and a few formats and reinstalls but for some reason yesterday it just started having these problems... i thought maybe the speaker cable was loose or something but i guess not.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i think it might be a network problem... like when ur network spikes it would make the sound (i haven't verified it for myself because it happens so randomly i can never really see my network usage in time)