"Popping" noise w/ Audigy 2

Hi,
I have had this constant, periodic popping noise through my 7. Creative speakers with my Audigy 2 ZS whenever I load windows and mostly when I have two sounds playing at once ie. Games and Winamp... please does anyone know how to fix this? It is very annoying...
The popping gets louder when I turn the speakers up and down when i turn them down ...

"The popping gets louder when I turn the speakers up and down when i turn them down"
That's normal for a volume control. How about a search on this forum, because what you asked, is asked before here really many many times.
I've also answered many many times, almost with the same answer.(irq/dma sharing of Motherboard&Windows. Put soundcard in a pci-slot that don't share with other equipment that is used at the same time.(like video = audiocard+graphicscard at same time, so you don't want these too cards to share irq/dma.)
well do a search on this forum for popping audigy, and you'll find tha answers.

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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.
You can find them here :
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=
Other than that, there are dozens of things to try which some people have claimed have worked, but none of them fixed the same problem on my system. If you feel like trying, just search either for "crackling" in this forum, or "SCP". You will find suggestions like moving your Audigy to a different PCI slot, reducing soundboard hardware acceleration, reducing vidcard acceleration, changing PCI Latency settings, etc. etc. etc. Unfortunately those suggestions are all merely bandaids. The real solution must come from Creative Labs.
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Seems we've isolated the problem to Electrical at least. Sounds like a Ground loop somewhere.
See this nice article...
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov04/articles/computerproblems.htm
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Sille wrote:
seems X-FI cards got the problem.... shud be hotfixed by creative.
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with this installed over the top,
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