Godawful screeching noise on X-Fi Fatal1ty

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My PC is periodically making horrible screeching noises (well, the speakers are). It can play music and stuff, for a bit, but it just cuts out to very electronic sounding scratches, hisses and white noise. There's also sounds that are like distant, tinny drums. Really weird.

Basically it's making my PC unusable unless it's on mute...

It's only ever done this once before, and that was when I had a BSOD.

I've heard of a scratchy noise problem with the X-Fi range, but I'd no idea it was this bad - but that might be down to having a 7.1 setup.

I'm gonna reinstall the drivers now and hope that sorts it, but if not... any ideas?

Edit: XP, btw.
 
i had the same Intermittent issue and was never able to resolve it... , i ended up just taking the pci card out and vowed never to buy from creative again.

sorry, not much help i know :)
 
Does the computer ever crash when you get screeching?

My old Audigy 2 did that, could get it to do the same every time when playing Oblivion. It was basically a sign the card was dying. Replaced it with an X-Fi Xtreme Music and the problem didn't occur.

Pretty certain it's not RFI, which is usually not that loud.

For entertainment value you might want to look up the Creative squeal (or screech) of death.
 
I had an X-FI gamer, it screeched, the headphone or microphone socket didn't work, POS IMO.

I actually think the onboard sound on my Gigabyte UD5 has less interference and at least as high quality sound. Oh and it works which is nice.
 
I've been getting this periodically on my X-Fi for the past year or so. It's a really horrible high pitched scream. Only way to resolve things is to reboot the PC.
 
creative is utter crap, but then again, there's nothing out there that's realistically going to sit, in a box, with a 1200watt PSU sending vast torrents of power through your system that's going to be good for audiophile sound quality.

I'd suggest you look external gear mate, Digi out, to a Breakout box. This X-Fi with it's pointless little 64mb (or whatever) of on-board memory is a sales gimmik unfortunately.

Want to get a "REAL" sound card, betta get your "REAL" cheque book out pal ;)

http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_overview_pci.php
 
geogaddi said:
creative is utter crap, but then again, there's nothing out there that's realistically going to sit, in a box, with a 1200watt PSU sending vast torrents of power through your system that's going to be good for audiophile sound quality.

I'd suggest you look external gear mate, Digi out, to a Breakout box. This X-Fi with it's pointless little 64mb (or whatever) of on-board memory is a sales gimmik unfortunately.

Want to get a "REAL" sound card, betta get your "REAL" cheque book out pal ;)

http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_overview_pci.php
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even onboard sounds good if you use a DAC, while the RME is a nice card it's overkill for most people here who just play music on itunes along with a few games. :)
 
MikeHunt79 said:
even onboard sounds good if you use a DAC, while the RME is a nice card it's overkill for most people here who just play music on itunes along with a few games. :)
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Very true, I'z just saying, sometimes getting rid of that annoying little analogue "fizz" can become an expensive hobby :p

If you're not a massive gamer then try some of the m-audio (midiman) cards. They're reasonably priced, analogue cards as the capacitors they use are of an exceptional quality, which is very important for analogue out (for headphones etc).

The only problem you may get is "compatability" as even though they're doing a fine job as a company and making x64 Vista and x64 Win7 drivers, they're very simple cut-down drivers just for people that still appreciate the fact they were born with 2 ears; which are ideal, for headphones :P


+ is dat sum Boxcutter john signature :D
 
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