That Sound Crackling in Creatives

FatRakoon

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I have had a bit of a mix-up with some of my PCs this last week. Purely out of utter boredom more than anything.

Anyway, I knocked up my old SLI PC together again, and this is teh spec

ASUS A8N-SLI
Opteron 175
4x1GB Corsair XMS 3200
2x7800GTX in SLI
XFI Gamer
Aega PhysX ( No, dont start, I know, Im only playing about )

Anyway, Im only gone and got the crackles really bad and I just cannot shift it.

I dont want help in fixing it, I only thought Id mention it cos I thought it was cured... Evidently its not 100% fixed.
 
I've had worse than that. Xtreme Music was fine in one rig with 4GB RAM. Stick it in another and total silence - couldn't get a peep out of it unless I dropped under 4GB RAM.
 
There was a bug on nforce 4 chipsets but only if you had 4Gb of RAM AND Sli. I think it was fixed with a BIOS update tho.
 
Mine wasn't nForce or SLI. The 4GB problems were wider spread than Creative liked to admit.
 
Yeah, I have had it sort of a little bit on an Intel Chipset.. The 965P DS4 Im almost definitely sure on that one, but it also was while I was having some iffies with Vista64 anyway... Before SP2 and quite possibly before SP1 come to think of it.

I didnt care too much back then as I preferred XP64 anyway, and then when W7 came out, I sort of skipped Vista completely and the DS4 never had any issues - Eve nwhen it did, I simply uninstalled the SoundCard, and removed the drivers at the same time and then reinstalled.

I have only done that twice since I first installed W7

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Typically, I have just moved the XFI onto the bottom PCI slot and the crackling has gone

However, I also saw that the SLI card thingy was set in as SINGLE card cos I was using an ATI and so that might do somethign too... Either way Its also re-found the graphic cards now as well, so its had to redo the both GFX, and the XFI so that must surely have jogged it a bit.
 
not to hijack the thread, but my X-FI has been bugging the hell out of me for quite some time now, with a constant buzzing noise. my speakers don't buzz when they are plugged into something else, like an MP3 player or something similar, the second i plug them into my X-FI output the buzzing starts, the volume is identical regardless of what the volume is set to, can be 100 or 1 and the buzz is the same...! thought it might be WI-FI antenna, but ruled that out, thought it could be proximity to monitor, etc. ruled that out, only other thing i can think of is the 4870X2 sitting a matter of millimetres on-top of the card, problem is though i only have one PCI-E slot for that sort of thing, hence the dilemma..! :confused: anyone think of any other causes?
 
Hmm..
Ok, well something to think about is the Buzz.

When you say buzz is is a quietish low hum or more of a sharper crisper rasp?

Im decribing the sound I mean very badly there, but Im considering the possibilty that you have unsheilded cables maybe?

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A side note for me now is that I have put the PhysX card into the PC now, and this has meant that I have had to put the XFI up a slot again and the crckles are back.

Not as bad as before but they are definitely there hough

This is a crackling sound and is nothing like a hum.

Just thouhts.
 
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