audio crackle with disk activity

Hello

I have an a8n-sli premium motherboard an amd4200+ x2 64bit processor and
4x500gb samsung sata hdd's and use 64bit vista home premium

the problem is when there is disk activity I get audio crackle, it dosen't
matter which software I use to listen to music or watch videos the crackle
is always there, when disk activity stops the sound is o.k.

any solution ?


thx

Try looking in device manager, you may have a sharing violation (irq
with the sound card.
Failing that try re-seating the sound card

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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:42:48 GMT, beano <> wrote:

>Hello
>
>I have an a8n-sli premium motherboard an amd4200+ x2 64bit processor and
>4x500gb samsung sata hdd's and use 64bit vista home premium
>
>the problem is when there is disk activity I get audio crackle, it dosen't
>matter which software I use to listen to music or watch videos the crackle
>is always there, when disk activity stops the sound is o.k.
>
>any solution ?
>
>
>thx

Do you have a Creative X-Fi (any flavor) and 4GB of RAM?

"Ron" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:42:48 GMT, beano <> wrote:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>I have an a8n-sli premium motherboard an amd4200+ x2 64bit processor and
>>4x500gb samsung sata hdd's and use 64bit vista home premium
>>
>>the problem is when there is disk activity I get audio crackle, it dosen't
>>matter which software I use to listen to music or watch videos the crackle
>>is always there, when disk activity stops the sound is o.k.
>>
>>any solution ?
>>
>>
>>thx
>
> Do you have a Creative X-Fi (any flavor) and 4GB of RAM?
>

Are there still PCI latency issues with Creative soundcards?

ss.

Synapse Syndrome wrote:
> "Ron" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:42:48 GMT, beano <> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I have an a8n-sli premium motherboard an amd4200+ x2 64bit processor and
>>> 4x500gb samsung sata hdd's and use 64bit vista home premium
>>>
>>> the problem is when there is disk activity I get audio crackle, it dosen't
>>> matter which software I use to listen to music or watch videos the crackle
>>> is always there, when disk activity stops the sound is o.k.
>>>
>>> any solution ?
>>>
>>>
>>> thx
>> Do you have a Creative X-Fi (any flavor) and 4GB of RAM?
>>
>
> Are there still PCI latency issues with Creative soundcards?
>
> ss.

I have to admit that I get audio crackle every so often myself which
seems strange on a 4800+ with 2 gigs of ram with a SB Audigy SE.

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:31:39 -0000, "Synapse Syndrome"
<> wrote:

>"Ron" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:42:48 GMT, beano <> wrote:
>>
>>>Hello
>>>
>>>I have an a8n-sli premium motherboard an amd4200+ x2 64bit processor and
>>>4x500gb samsung sata hdd's and use 64bit vista home premium
>>>
>>>the problem is when there is disk activity I get audio crackle, it dosen't
>>>matter which software I use to listen to music or watch videos the crackle
>>>is always there, when disk activity stops the sound is o.k.
>>>
>>>any solution ?
>>>
>>>
>>>thx
>>
>> Do you have a Creative X-Fi (any flavor) and 4GB of RAM?
>>
>
>Are there still PCI latency issues with Creative soundcards?
>
>ss.
>

They've supposedly been fixed in the later driver iterations. but on
some nforce4 mobos, they still pop up.

I built my system in December 2005 (X2 4800+, A8N32, 2GB, 4 SATA
drives) and never had a problem with XP. I upgraded to Vista x86 and
never had a problem. Vista x64, no problem. As soon as I installed
2GB more of RAM, it sounded like an AM radio in an electrical storm.

Nothing I tried would fix it. Auzentech drivers, different PCI slots.
I ended up ditching it for onboard, then HT Omega Claro plus. Works
perfectly now.