Moskie

I'm not sure how long this has been going on, as I may have just begun to notice it recently... but I'm starting to hear very faint noises coming from my speakers as my computer does its thing. For instance, moving my mouse over a series of links on a site, or as my browser downloads a web page... pretty much anything, and I hear very faint staticy blips coming from my speakers. I thought I was going crazy, but I don't hear the noises when my speakers are off..

So what could the problem be? I've had these speakers for a while (4 speaker Altec Lansing set w/subwoofer), and they've been in pretty much the same setup since I got them. Is there something I should look out for when it comes to the wires?

Gah! I hear the noises now as i type! help!!

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shadowalker

not sure about the noises when you type, but at times my system made noise, I found it was interference from having my harddrive mounted to close to my sound card (stupid mod i attempted). I do have a wireless mouse also and now and then the frequency of the transmitter interfere's with the sound. If you have an aftermarket sound card in your system (ie, not mobo sound) and there are IDE/Power rails/etc near it, try rerouteing them.

or could be your speakers starting to go.

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Wingless

I have a similar problem on my laptop. I scroll with my wireless mouse on SOME (not all) webpages in Firefox and there's a faint sound coming from the speakers. It's not annoying or anything, just... odd?

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It is emi from inside your computer I'm afraid. It becomes more noticable at high volumes and especially when using headphones or a high quality external amp.
As has been mentioned a way to solve it partly would be to move your soundcard (if not using onboard) to a less crowded pci slot. Of course if you are using onboard sound a specific sound card would help significantly.

Unfortunatly for you wingless your only option is onboard sound using the outputs on your laptop. The only solution I can recommend would be to buy an external sound card running off USB or possible firewire. This will all but eliminate the emi with a minor reduction in sound performance and a higher use of CPU cycles. Of course this is also an option for a desktop user but an internal solution would be preferable especially if you play games or take your sound seriously.

Creative sell cards which might be able to help these include the extigy (USB) and an audigy 2 (pci) both are more games orientated but will provide excellent stereo playback too.

Hope that helps a bit.

mikec

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portwineboy

Also make sure none of your power cords have become wrapped around a speaker line. I had this happen I was getting all sorts of annoying noise from my sub/speaker setup. I straightened out the wires and the problem went away.

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Homey_V

Turn off any cell phones near the computer... It sounds weird, but I often get weird blips from my speakers when my Cell is on and within 10 feet of my speakers.

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