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- Jan 12, 2013
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- Colorado Springs, CO, USA, Earth
My computer's audio has been making sizzling/crackling/white noise, and I can only hear it when I turn up my speakers to about at least the 70% mark.
I know for a fact it's not the speakers' fault, it's the computer, because even when I unplug the speakers altogether, I can still see the sound when I use Audacity and record with stereo mix.
I used LatencyMon and it detected a problem, and it says it is possibly WLAN related. This would make sense since I just noticed the sound recently, and just about a week ago I installed a new WLAN PCIE adapter. Even when I disable the WLAN adapter, it still makes the crackling noise. I even TOOK OUT the thing and, even though at that point, when I used LatencyMon, it didn't DETECT any problems, I could still hear the noise as if it were there. I tried disabling USB hubs in the device manager and still nothing. I turned off my phone in the room to make sure it wasn't picking up any sort of interference from it. No help.
I had this same problem a while back, and I figured out it was because CPU throttling was enabled in my BIOS. Disabling it fixed the issue, but now a similar problem is here and the throttling is still disabled.
One thing I noticed is that whenever the noise crackles or snaps, my HDD LED on the PC tower blinks in perfect synchronization. I tried unplugging all three of my hard drives (leaving the solid state drive with the OS on it in, of course) but nothing.
What else could be causing the problem?
I know for a fact it's not the speakers' fault, it's the computer, because even when I unplug the speakers altogether, I can still see the sound when I use Audacity and record with stereo mix.
I used LatencyMon and it detected a problem, and it says it is possibly WLAN related. This would make sense since I just noticed the sound recently, and just about a week ago I installed a new WLAN PCIE adapter. Even when I disable the WLAN adapter, it still makes the crackling noise. I even TOOK OUT the thing and, even though at that point, when I used LatencyMon, it didn't DETECT any problems, I could still hear the noise as if it were there. I tried disabling USB hubs in the device manager and still nothing. I turned off my phone in the room to make sure it wasn't picking up any sort of interference from it. No help.
I had this same problem a while back, and I figured out it was because CPU throttling was enabled in my BIOS. Disabling it fixed the issue, but now a similar problem is here and the throttling is still disabled.
One thing I noticed is that whenever the noise crackles or snaps, my HDD LED on the PC tower blinks in perfect synchronization. I tried unplugging all three of my hard drives (leaving the solid state drive with the OS on it in, of course) but nothing.
What else could be causing the problem?
