It seems to happen when stuff happens on screen, like when i open a new window, etc.

WTF is up with it? I checked out the sound blaster website and they said that video drivers could have been a problem, so i changed them to an older one (got a geforce 2 mx btw).

That has kinda helped, i think. The pops and crackles are a lot less loud.

Anyway, this started heppening since I got a new motherboard, a jetway867AS
(with a duron 700, if that matters). It seemed fine before I got the mboard.

Any ideas?

she's gonna blow!!!

remember to duck and cover!

wot os? which drivers?

win2k
second latest dets
and latest sblive drivers (tried different vers of them too)

do jetway recommend sblive to be in a certain pci slot?

just started having the same problem here since installing my Mpeg encoder card (Pinnacle Studio DV+)... things were fine till I loaded the Xp drivers for the mpeg encoder, but now it seems whenever I do so much as load up a game, she crackles. Installing WinXP live drivers hasn't helped any.

Running an Asus Cuv4x... here. Thankfully it's just a software problem by the looks of things.

/me taps fingers while waiting for email reply from Pinnacle...

could be just interference with other components, i know with my old pos that i could hear the cd rom spin up and the hdd when it loaded stuff...

By Gimp

then whats the best way to avoid it?
i got my sblive on the bottom most pci slot

go read up on your mobo;
try a different pci slot;
see if there are new drivers or patches or even bios updates that fix the problem;

Make sure your microphone is switched OFF in the master volume control thingy when you are not using it.

*mic test*

"Will the real Shawn C please stand up"

mines just started doing it again. it comes & goes. I'd say it's the power company f***ing with filtering or something. I never used to get that problem, now I do, few weeks/months it'll go away again. f***s me what's doing it, my mate up the road starts & stops bout the same time mine does. Maybe it's a creative thing, they've been programmed to do it at a set date to go make u buy a better sound card.

If you guys have VIA chipsets on your motherboards (which you probably do), then you need this.

How can I tell if I do?

IF it's a (from memmory) 500hz? on and off sound its whats knowen at energex noise, it's used to turn hot water systems on and off and other s*** like that.

however energex deny it is audible (however we all know it is) BUT will offer you a box to remove the line noise for $600, and wont gaurentee it will work.

u have no idea how much effort it can be to get energex noise outta a medium sized PA system :/

if u installed drivers off a cd and stuff, delete them.

probably an idea to uninstall the whole component and reinstall with the freshest and latest drivers. at least that worked for me.

and deleting half life will help, too.

Get teh latest via 4 in 1 drivers (assumedly it's a via chipset), they are supposed to fix this up (well, it was fixed in one a while ago). No it's not your power supply, geezus. It's just some screw up on the part of creative or via, AFAIK they STILL havent really worked it out but some stuff they did helped most people.

well I'm running dual boot here...

problem doesn't exist in 98... but does in XP.

pretty certain she's just software...