Sound started to crackle

my sound started to crackle really annoyingly so I thought it was my headphones so I went out and bought some new cheap ones.

problem is these crackle to....

what else could be causing this problem??

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Mayor United States. July 15 2011 15:06. Posts 467

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Interference is a possibility depending on where you're plugging your headphones in from, if you're plugging them in the front panel, it's likely interference, and you should try plugging them in the back port. If that doesn't work, I don't know what the problem could be.

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Grobyc Canada. July 15 2011 15:07. Posts 16976

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Have you tried using the audio panel on your motherboard instead (or vice versa)? Have you updating your sound drivers recently?

It's clearly not your headphones, and it's probably not a software issue, so that really only leaves other physical problems.

If I used the extension cord that came with my old headphones on any other headphones, I would get a crackling; you didn't do something like that did you?

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iloveav Poland. July 15 2011 17:11. Posts 820

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Need your system info.

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Halfwarr United States. July 16 2011 08:21. Posts 36

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Does it come and go? Only seems to appear when your playing a game? Or is it just as soon as you boot up?

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QuackPocketDuck Australia. July 16 2011 08:38. Posts 369

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Soundcard or realtek?
Creative xfi cards have a crackling issue with some stupid gigabyte mobo software for example.
Could be a software issue but hard to tell, as iloveav said above need system info.

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Kavdragon United States. July 16 2011 08:49. Posts 1222

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I might be able to help you if I could hear it, but "crackling" could be a lot of things. There will often be interference in audio on internal cards, but short of buying an external audio device, I'm not sure what can fix that...

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heliusx United States. May 09 2012 13:26. Posts 1520

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I'm recently having this same problem. It happens on headphones and speakers. Happens with mp3s, flash video everything How can I get a recording to give for reference? thanks in advance.

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Platform : Intel PineTrail
Mainboard : Asus 1015PE
Chipset : Intel NM10
Processor : Intel Atom N460 @ 1666MHz
Physical Memory : 1024MB
Video Card : Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 3150
Hard Disk : Seagate ST9160314AS (160GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM
Network Card : Attansic (Now owned by Atheros) AR8132 PCIe Fast Ethernet Controller
Network Card : Atheros Communications AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCIe)
Operating System : Windows 7 Starter Home Edition Starter 6.01.7600 (32-bit)
DirectX : Version 11.00
Windows Performance Index : 2.3 on 7.9

Device Audio : ASUSTeK Computer 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
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Audio Playback : Microsoft Sound Mapper
Audio Recording : Microphone (Realtek High Defini
MIDI Output : Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth
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Mixer Device : Speakers (Realtek High Definiti
Mixer Device : Microphone (Realtek High Defini
Device multimedia : AVIVideo
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Video Compression : Microsoft RLE
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Video Compression : Toshiba YUV Codec
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Rollin Australia. May 09 2012 13:42. Posts 1149

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On May 09 2012 13:26 heliusx wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

The audio port on a notebook/netbook will always have interference from the internal components inside.

Do you notice the artifacting whenever there is power to the external devices? (ie. right after you plug them in, some systems cut power after a period of no sound output) If the same noise is always there, that's just EM interference most likely, unless you haven't always had this problem.

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heliusx United States. May 09 2012 13:50. Posts 1520

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On May 09 2012 13:42 Rollin wrote:

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On May 09 2012 13:26 heliusx wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

yes its a recent development. Im not exactly sure what you mean by power to external devices. It does it if my a/c is plugged in and also on both headphones and internal speakers.

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Rollin Australia. May 09 2012 16:28. Posts 1149

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On May 09 2012 13:50 heliusx wrote:

Show nested quote +

On May 09 2012 13:42 Rollin wrote:

On May 09 2012 13:26 heliusx wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

yes its a recent development. Im not exactly sure what you mean by power to external devices. It does it if my a/c is plugged in and also on both headphones and internal speakers.

I'd presume it's likely to be a hardware fault given that it's a recent development. Sorry about the ambiguity of my previous wording, by external devices I was referring to devices plugged into the 3.5mm jack, as opposed to the internal speakers.

If it only occurs when it's plugged in (I can't be sure if that's what you meant), it's almost certainly not fixable.

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heliusx United States. May 10 2012 09:33. Posts 1520

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it happens to any headphones and also to the internal speaker system. so i do not think it is the port more likely my sound card?

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