Popping sound on iBook in Tiger

Last week, I purchased a second-hand iBook G4 (1.42ghz, 1,5Gb of RAM). It came with OS X Tiger. I updated to X.4.11 but I got the problem that several Macbooks had as well : the popping sound from the speakers; every time I tried to increase or decrease the volume by using the function keys on the keyboard, I heard a strange 'popping' sound. Not a real problem, but annoying all the same. I had bought Leopard to install on my G5 iMac and thought I'd give Leopard a try on the iBook. It runs without problems, although I've got the impression it's not as reponsive as Tiger. However, the popping noise is gone. Now, I would prefer to reinstall Tiger as it runs more smoothly on the iBook, but I was wondering whether there is a solution to the popping sound problem in Tiger. Thx.

the popping sound from the speakers; every time I tried to increase or decrease the volume by using the function keys on the keyboard, I heard a strange 'popping' sound.
I think that that's the normal "signal" sound that you're changing the volume.
Mine does it too as have every iBook that I own/ed.
It was in Tiger and Panther.
This is from Mac Cast:
http://forum.maccast.com/index.php?showtopic=5068
"Go to your System Preferences>Sound>Sound Effects and uncheck the boxes located in the middle of the window as appropriate (viz. Play feedback when volume is changed)."
Too lazy to type it myself.
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