constant static/crackling coming from speakers

[dervampyre]

ok, it started two weeks ago, and wasn't very frequent. didn't do it when sound was playing (game, music, movie, etc.) but when speakers were on with nothing playing, they would start to crackle occasionally after a while. i thought it was just the speakers dying out, they're pretty old. anyway, i was just curious and i hooked up my roommates speakers and had the same problem. I downloaded new drivers for my sound card (Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum) and it got worse. its now a constant static/crackling whether there's sound playing or not. I have no idea what is causing this and can't seem to find answers anywhere. I checked for virus, spyware, adware, etc. and nothing. thats probably not it anyway, but i got nothing. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

[dervampyre]

anybody have any ideas?

[kuszmania9999]

try without your sound card,see what happen.

[dervampyre]

yeah, my bad, there was no sound at all without the sound card. so that pretty much means its my sound card then right.

[dervampyre]

just want to know if anyone can support my idea that its the sound card, cuz i don't want to buy a new one if i don't need it

[kuszmania9999]

try it on different computer

[Kurtiskain]

Hey there...

I know this could be a REALLY long shot but if you are somebody like me I know I seemed to love to place all of the volume controls up to maximum and unmuted.

I found that if the MIC and the AUX are unmuted and up to full I would get a crackling/static sounding noise on my speakers.

To get to the mixer:

1 Click start then control panel
2 Then (category mode) Sounds speech and audio devices then sounds and audio devices
3 Click advanced and a mixer will appear.
4 If MIC and AUX are not visible, click options then properties, and tick all the boxes and click OK
5 Basically the only ones you need un-ticked are: Volume, Wave, Synth, (If you use it) CD player and PC speaker

Hope this fixes your problem

Other thing to check if this fails...ground yourself to something and then touch a inner part of the case while on and see if it is grounded sufficiently already to not have static electricity flying around inside it. If not, You will feel it just a small tingle

Kurtis

[oxymoron_02]

I've gotta admit it does seem like Kurtiskain's static electricty theory might have some credibility to it. In cases like this you should broaden your scope to beyond just your computer, and find out if anything else capable of putting out a lot of TREE has been installed near or in your home within the last couple of weeks.

You never know, it might be that newly landed and cloaked alien ship hovering over your house