Sound Card Second Post I've Tried Everything

[gyles]

Please help. I had a bright idea that I would back up all my MP3 files and DVD's on an external usb 500 gb WD 7200 rpm hard drive and play them from the drive instead of loading and unloading disc's. Well, when I boot up and play a (the first) movie or an mp3 file it sounds great. but, if I change to another movie or mp3 file it pops and cracks so loud and awful you might have heard it and just didn't know what it was;

Anyway, I have a Sound Blaster A2 sound card and a cheap set of Aztec speackers. However, it was not doing this prior to installing the WD 500gb hard drive. Now it does it with or without the WD HD connected.

Please, please, please, I have reseated the sound card, updated drivers, worked on it about 3 days and just can't get it to work right. I want to be able to open the hard drive, play a movie, play another movie or music files... Somebody please have an answer.

Thanks

I've formattrd, reseated card, up-dated drivers, nothing has worked? Somebody please have an answer before I buy a new sound card?

[Snakebyte1]

What software are you using to play your media files? Did you just install it or upgrade it after adding your external drive? If so try to uninstall it and re-install. You mentioned that you "reformatted", but I'm not sure if you meant you formatted the external drive, or did a format and re-install of Windows.

Do you get the popping noise only when playing DVDs & MP3 file, or do you also get it with .WAV files, like when Windows plays a BING or PING sound? Does the sound always works fine on your system UNTIL you play a media file and then rebooting fixes things until you play a media file again?

[Marvingj]

Ping and /or Hum noise is something you really don't need to worry about. Adobe Audition / CoolEdit Pro can remove hum or ping without destroying the signal perfectly and quite fast.

By the way, Adobe Audition should be your swiss knife in this project. It can record, clean, normalize, filterout, do anything for your audio. For the project you want, don't settle for anything less. You can use the demo (free).

[Soopafresh]

That could be a hardware problem, possibly due to shared interrupts or even power related. Could be your power supply starts sagging as the PC gets loaded.

Lots of other things as well.


1) Move your audio card to another slot.

2) Try the 3rd Party kxproject audio drivers that work with Audigy and similar cards. These are pretty good. http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/down.php

[guns1inger]

The first PCI slot (nearest the gfx card) usually shares the interrupts with the on-board USB hub. You should leave it clear if you can. If this is where your card is then Soopafresh is right - move it and test again.

[gyles]

Thanks for all the advo... Bought a new Sound Blaster $72.00 card. Works fine


Thanks