Audio cracks, pops, and dies...jeez!

MisplacedFate13 · 01-27-2009, 03:57 PM

I didn't reinstall, uninstall, or do anything at all when this started happening. I played spore all night, sound worked perfect. I left a Disk Cleanup (compressing old files) running overnight, and when I awoke I was greeted by loud cracking when I try to listen to music, play a game or even when the system is idle. When I restart my computer, the sound works fine again for a couple of minutes, then the cracking starts, very subtle at first, then increasing in occurance until the sound simply dies - only by restarting can I get the sound back on, until the cycle begins again. I tested the speakers on a laptop, they work fine, I tried changing the jack to line out, no help, I tried lowering the audio acceleration settings, no help either. My current audio card is an onboard card, I believe it is nvidia nforce.

Is there some THING that can be done other than going out and buying a new audio card? Thanks for your advice :)

**Pauldo** · 01-28-2009, 12:17 AM

Have you looked at your temps?

Depending on what motherboard you have, there have been problems with some Nvidia chipsets getting too hot. This might explain why after a restart it sounds fine but after awhile it starts getting worse and worse.

You specifically want the southbridge chipset temp. Download Speedfan from my sig if you don't have any temp monitoring software installed.

Pauldo

01-27-2009, 03:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
MisplacedFate13 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1 OS: WinXP-SP2	Audio cracks, pops, and dies...jeez! I didn't reinstall, uninstall, or do anything at all when this started happening. I played spore all night, sound worked perfect. I left a Disk Cleanup (compressing old files) running overnight, and when I awoke I was greeted by loud cracking when I try to listen to music, play a game or even when the system is idle. When I restart my computer, the sound works fine again for a couple of minutes, then the cracking starts, very subtle at first, then increasing in occurance until the sound simply dies - only by restarting can I get the sound back on, until the cycle begins again. I tested the speakers on a laptop, they work fine, I tried changing the jack to line out, no help, I tried lowering the audio acceleration settings, no help either. My current audio card is an onboard card, I believe it is nvidia nforce. Is there some THING that can be done other than going out and buying a new audio card? Thanks for your advice :)

01-28-2009, 12:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
Pauldo Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Seattle, Washington Posts: 1,444 OS: winXP Pro sp3 My System	Re: Audio cracks, pops, and dies...jeez! Have you looked at your temps? Depending on what motherboard you have, there have been problems with some Nvidia chipsets getting too hot. This might explain why after a restart it sounds fine but after awhile it starts getting worse and worse. You specifically want the southbridge chipset temp. Download Speedfan from my sig if you don't have any temp monitoring software installed. Pauldo __________________ SystemSpec \| Power Supply Info \| How to Post a Screen shot \| Speedfan[/center]