Soundcard prob with fubar'ed righthand chan

[7ths0n]

Heeeelp! Pleeeeaaase! For no apparent reason the right hand channel of my SB Live is just crackling away to itself...

before you say "Check the cables / connections" lemme tell ya that i already have! (several times, with no joy...)

the Speakers appear to be fine working under other devices... it appears to be just the right hand channel of the card itself. Dodgy connection ? I find that highly unlikely as i left my computer for 8 hours or so and when i returned *pop* the crackling is there (nothing could have physically happened to the card as there was no one in the house for those 8 hours, nothing was changed with my system, i wasn't connected so no one could of h4x0red me ( :P ))

I didn't think info like motherboard etc. would help but here it is anyway...

Cpu: Intel Celeron 433
Motherboard: Abit BE6 (NOT rev.2)
Memory: 96Mb
Graphics card: Geforce 1 DDR

Think that'll do it :))

Anyone got any suggestions as to what it could be and how i can go about fixing it ?

Cheers :E

[werewolf_bite]

it could be the right channell on the sound card is picking up interference from something in the case.

Or a componant could have just died :(
Usually an electrical componant is most likely to fail when it's "warming up" after being powered down for a while.

Check that everything but say CD Audio is muted in the volume controll in case one of the other leads/inputs is picking the interference up.

[Calzor Suzay]

Have you got a four speaker set-up or two?
If so does it do it on the right channel for both front and rear, this might identify a loose connection on the board somewhere...

[Piglet]

I Have EXACTLY the same prob with my Sound Blaster 16, I have tried everything, including taking it out and dusting it with a proper kit, and it's still fudged up beyond all recognition, ie it still crackles and pops like a bowl O' rice crispies........

I'm just gonna get a new one wehn I can be bothered.....

If you find a cur please let me know!!!

Piglet.......

[7ths0n]

Cure found :}

I found a little setup doodad under the Creative folder, gave the usual "this will switch all your setting to default, do you with to proceed" malarky... did that and the crackling stopped... so i dunno wtf was going on there.

Cheers anyways ;)