[SOLVED] Sound Popping

Re: Sound Popping

Using the on-board sound card?

What you experience is a well known problem with sound cards. It's caused by clashes between video card access and sound card access. Specifically the property called PCI Latency. Happens when the Latency for the video is close to, or equals, the Latency for the sound.

In the pre-PCI days, this property could be adjusted for each PCI slot in BIOS. Unfortunately, today, if this option is available at all, you can only adjust the Latency for all PCI slots. Which is no help.

You can try the PCI Latency Tool

CAUTIONS:

This tool installes shortcuts in [Start], Programs (as normal), DO NOT MOVE or change in any way.

See the Help BEFORE using. You must set (change) Latency 1st, then Save, and set to reset on boot.

Also, not all PCI/AGP cards allow software setting of Latency, those that CANNOT will have a Latency = 0 on the list. Latency is set in multiples of 8, 8 = minimum (8, 16, 24, 32, etc.) to a max (see help).

What you want to do is put your audio card Latency very low. At home, my on-board RealTek defaulted to Latency = 8, my GeForce 7300 = 56. When I was using an Audigy, both sound & video Latency = 56, and caused much popping.

Re: Sound Popping

I seem to have a similar problem with sound clicking/popping/stuttering/lagging/skipping (whatever you want to call it) when playing videos, mp3's and with all the audio. The sound stutters even when the windows jingle playing at startup.

Things I have tried:

1) change the PCI slot for the sound card
2) disable the internal soundcard from bios
3) update the soundcard drivers
4) chaged the soundcard itself
5) memchecked the memory and changed the other combs position
6) rolled back to the driver that came with the card
7) installed K-Lite codec pack and AC´97 drivers
8) killed processes
9) changed the PCI latency for the sound card

NOTHING OF THESE AFFECTS ON THIS! :4-dontkno

The PCI Latecy tool 3 didnt work on my system - it just froze it and i had to reboot. I found another program that does the same trick called DoubleDawg. I tried it, and it seems to be working by changing the sound card latency but it does not take the problem away.

The program is found here: http://www.mark-knutson.com/t3/_index.html

My system is the following:
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU 2,4GHz
3,25GB of RAM 444Mhz
Asus P5K Mobo
Delock 7.1 Sound card bundle
WIN XP SP 2

I´m beginning to be out of ideas! The reason i first began to use a PCI sound card instead of the mother boards was that i could get it working.

Please, if you still have some ideas i would gladly try them and if I come up with something i´ll post it here.

Re: Sound Popping

Dragon Wizard said:

I have no idea, everything is the default of a Dell Dimension 4700 except for a geforce 7300 vid card in it.

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Have you tried to install the new Nvidia graphics driver? I heard that someone has had the same sound distorting problem after installing a Nvidia video card to a Dell Dimension 3000.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_175.19_whql.html

You should also check the new version of the AC97 drivers here:
http://search.dell.com/searchcom_re...en&redpe=09a062a6-0fe0-1560-ae8f-655fce10879b

if this doesent help, you could try to install the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility here:
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=27&fileid=104426

One more thing. My problem was solved by installing the updated IDE controller driver. I found such a driver for Dell D 4400 but not for 4700.
Anyway, the link for it is here:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/Ot...ll-Dimension-4400-IDE-Controller-Driver.shtml

:wave:

Re: Sound Popping

Guys,

Happy you got a fix. I think I may have the same, or a similar, problem.

For a while I have been annoyed with this crackling sound from my loudspeakers, as if you jiggle a broken cord. The strange thing is that it happens in intervals of exactly 1 minute and lasts for maybe 3-4 seconds.

I changed the setting on the computer clock, but the crackling sound continued according to original schedule, as if to some external clock, with exactly 1 minute in between.

My sound card is Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio.

Does this sound related?

Jemoto