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lwhitworth

lwhitworth

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Ok here we go. I'm working on my parents system which one SOME CDs (not all) introduces a layer of static over the music when being played. Annoyingly if you import the CD (through either iTunes or WMP) this layer of static comes in too. I have tried playing and importing the CD on my system and it's fine

In trying to solve this I have:

Completely rebuilt the PC, was Vista, now Windows 7 (both x64)
Removed the PCI wireless card and the graphics card (so went back to using on board for both)
Disabed on board sound card, imported CD, copied MP3 files to another computer - static remained!
Used a different optical drive (used an external USB CD drive just to make sure there was nothing funny going on down the SATA chain)
Used a different HDD
Unplugged pretty much everything I could from the motherboard that wasn't essential (front USB ports, etc)
Tried each of the sticks of RAM independently
Flashed BIOS to the latest version

I'm pretty much out of ideas. I can only think it's some codec or something that windows installs at build that's causing the issue. Anyone else got any ideas?

The motherboard is an Asus M2N68-VM and it's running and AMD Phenom 9950 Quad processor.

I don't have a spare soundcard lying around, but not sure this would even help! Windows system sounds play fine, if I import the songs on my laptop and then copy files over they play fine on machine, it's just something weird with the import :confused:
 
let me get this right.Your parents got some cd's that when played on there pc makes some static noise,
but some cd's dont, also when played in your pc it does not make the static sound that you get with there pc, is this right?

Things to try
Rip the cd that makes the static sound on your pc to your preferred format mp3,flac etc
and play it on your pc just to make sure that there is no static noise.
Now play it on your parents pc, if there is no static then the problem is prolly pointing to there
optical drive or cables connected to it, if there is still some static maybe the sound card?
Tried a different playback software?
 
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AtaRo said:
let me get this right.Your parents got some cd's that when played on there pc makes some static noise,
but some cd's dont, also when played in your pc it does not make the static sound that you get with there pc, is this right?
Click to expand...

Yep spot on, that's it in a nutshell

AtaRo said:
Things to try
Rip the cd that makes the static sound on your pc to your preferred format mp3,flac etc
and play it on your pc just to make sure that there is no static noise.
Now play it on your parents pc, if there is no static then the problem is prolly pointing to there
optical drive or cables connected to it, if there is still some static maybe the sound card?
Tried a different playback software?
Click to expand...

Have tried that I'm afraid. Have also tried a USB DVD-Drive for playback as well as using WMP/iTunes/WinAmp, all which had the same issue.

Am booting into knoppix now to see if the problem follows me to linux :mad:
 
Phew, got to the bottom of it. Turns out the problem is with LiteScribe drives, which the internal drive and the external USB drive I was using both are. Attached an old IDE drive and works straight away.

Shoulda confirmed that the USB drive was in fact working correctly on another computer I suppose - that would have saved me the best part of 8 hours :mad:

Still, at least it's sorted now!! Hope someone in need finds this thread one day and it saves them some time!

Cheers for the suggestions folks.
 
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