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[duktayp]

k, so i had a problem where if i was listening to some music (in my computer) and started a game, you would hear this squeaky sound outputted thru the speakers. then in menus and stuff ingame you'd get a static sound when a sound plays when you enter/exit a menu. closing/minimizing the game would give you the same screechy sound/squeaky sound/some static, or a really loud lot of screeching and static stuff & music stops outputting. so i thought it was my sound card (sb x-fi f1tality), and reluctantly took it out of my machine for a couple of weeks. the problem went away. then put it back in and the problem was back. i'd tried everything from updating drivers to changing settings in the bios. then i tried 1 more thing and it worked. i turned onboard sound back ON in the bios, and what do you know. even tho the sound was still being outputted thru my x-fi the screechning went away.

what do you know even more? two weeks later (today) the screeching/static is back! and onboard sound is still on in my bios! what the F***! has anyone experienced this/know what it is? thanks.

 

[chudley]

First thing I would do is disable the on board sound again. It could also be dirty connections or loose cabling on your speaker wires. Try wiggling the cable as the sound is happening if it stops or is intermittent then you will know it is the cables.

 

[duktayp]

thanks for the advice. i tried wiggling the card and i've cleaned the contacts. nothing i loose. anyway the mp3 plays fine, it's not as if i get static and screeching when it's the only thing open

oh yeah - it didnt fix the problem

edit: have now tried underclocking everything, no luck.

 

[FarFarAway]

Sounds like an IRQ issue to me. Tried using a different PCI slot?

 

[Joe]

thanks for the advice. i tried wiggling the card and i've cleaned the contacts. nothing i loose. anyway the mp3 plays fine, it's not as if i get static and screeching when it's the only thing open

oh yeah - it didnt fix the problem

edit: have now tried underclocking everything, no luck.

sounds like EM interference ... is your speaker system grounded properly ???

Hook the SB to a set of headphones (using rear pci bracket conns),if the noise is not present on the headphones (of reasonable quality) then its an issue with the speaker cables or speaker grounding .

If it is still present then it is prob interference from ur case !!! hook a piece of wire from the case/pci bracket where SB lives to a radiator(exposed metal part of ) /mains earth plug/whatever is large and metallic

 

[duktayp]

one word: SLi.

i did an extensive search on google and found a topic on the creative site where people had the same problem. they said to turn SLi off and now the problem has vanished. thx for helping guys anyway. i tried the card in a different pci slot a while ago.

 

[nunzio]

Good to see them X-Fi's are still as buggy as hell with SLi. I thought the last driver update was fixing it.