Crackling in ANY type of headset :(

[samborambo56]

Recently I've been getting crackling noises (just occasionally) when I try listening to music. The headsets will crackle at times where there is high bass or other things.

I've tried a USB headset and a standard audio jack headset. Both do the same.

I've tried disabling and enabling things in the device manager and other such things (disabling audio devices I'm not using etc.)

I've even treid unplugging everything except the mouse and keyboard from the USB's just to see if that was the problem.

But no. My headset still crackles while playing sound.

 

[nan0pwnag3]

This could be because of one of two things:
1. You don't have the correct motherboard/sound card drivers installed on your computer or they may not be compatible with the operating system you are currently running.
2. There is too much static running through the motherboard ports. Some motherboards to this, something to do with the power, but unfortunately I don't know of a way of fixing this.

One thing you could try, which is what I'm doing at the moment to avoid my audio problems with my new computer, is to route your computers audio through another computer. For example, I have a cable connecting the headphone jack from my computer to the microphone jack in my laptop, then have my USB headphones plugged into my laptop. So it's basically like listening to a microphone, but the microphone is my computer's audio.

Hope this helps,
Scott

 

[samborambo56]

This could be because of one of two things:
1. You don't have the correct motherboard/sound card drivers installed on your computer or they may not be compatible with the operating system you are currently running.
2. There is too much static running through the motherboard ports. Some motherboards to this, something to do with the power, but unfortunately I don't know of a way of fixing this.

One thing you could try, which is what I'm doing at the moment to avoid my audio problems with my new computer, is to route your computers audio through another computer. For example, I have a cable connecting the headphone jack from my computer to the microphone jack in my laptop, then have my USB headphones plugged into my laptop. So it's basically like listening to a microphone, but the microphone is my computer's audio.

Hope this helps,
Scott

Thanks for the reply I will try updating my bios, gpu drivers etc.

Do you reckon getting an external sound card that has its own power source would do the same as running audio through my laptop?

 

[nan0pwnag3]

Thanks for the reply I will try updating my bios, gpu drivers etc.

Do you reckon getting an external sound card that has its own power source would do the same as running audio through my laptop?

An external sound card with its own power supply is exactly the same as routing the audio through another computer. When you put the audio through another computer it uses that computer's sound card basically, and the processing power. So having an external sound card should fix your problem.

Hope this helps,
Scott

 

[samborambo56]

Thanks for the reply I will try updating my bios, gpu drivers etc.

Do you reckon getting an external sound card that has its own power source would do the same as running audio through my laptop?

An external sound card with its own power supply is exactly the same as routing the audio through another computer. When you put the audio through another computer it uses that computer's sound card basically, and the processing power. So having an external sound card should fix your problem.

Hope this helps,
Scott

Thanks