Audigy 2 ZS Noise Prob

Out of the blue, my Inspire 7. speakers started clicking and poping. I first thought a connection to the speakers was bad but after testing the connections and muting the output, I found that the clicking and poping was actually being created by my Audigy 2 ZS card. It doesn' matter if I have any sound playing or not but it pops and clicks consistently. I've run hardware diagnostics on the card but it turns up nothing. This card was working great for almost a year. I would appreciate any suggestions you may have. Thanks.

Creatorx2000,
Check out this article for suggestions on how to resolve this:
http://us.creative.com/support/kb/ar...sp?l=2&sid=656
Jeremy

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I've been getting a problem with these popping noises. All of my drivers / BIOS for everything are all up to date, my speakers are fine, I checked the cords to my speakers (they are un-tangled, and what not), and my speaks are directly connected to the back of my computer (to the sound card). The thing with the popping noises I get, it doesn't happen randomly, it happens in certain parts of music (games, MP3s, WAVs) parts of sound effects in SOME games, and when I do certain things that involve sound. Let's say I'm playing a MP3, when I fast forward or rewind (or whatever it is when you move the tab that moves to show how far into the song you are), it'll pop right as it changes. When I'm adjusting the in-game volume in World of Warcraft, it'll pop every time I raise the volume up or down. It does the popping non stop in Battlefield 942. Whenever I minimize or maximize my game's window, it'll pop once, or twice. Back when I had an ATi Radeon 9800 XT, whenever it VPU'd recovered, it would pop a few times. At times when a sound finishes playing (a sound that doesn't fade away before it ends, it just simply stops without fading away), it'll pop right when it ends. I had the same problem with my last sound card (Sound Blaster Li've) and the last speakers I had, I upgraded my sound card and speakers now, and it still does it.

Unfortunately, there is little you can do. This is a problem nati've to Soundblaster cards since the original Audigy (some people claim it arri'ved with the Li've!). Search in this forum for SCP (snap crackle pop), and you will find hundreds of topics on the problem. There is no real answer, although the best I could do to get rid of it was to dump the Creative Labs drivers, and install the KX project drivers instead.
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Message Edited by Wortex on 2-02-200606:49 PM

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