What causes "clicking and popping noise" on Audigy cards? and how can it be solved?
Ok so I've changed a few caps (blindly with no knowledge what I'm doing or why I'm doing it), on an Audigy 2 card. (~Elgen to Panasonic/Rubycon)
But "clicking and popping" is still very apparent.
It can be reproduced by seeking in audio playback and stopping starting audio. Occasionally it is possible to hear another type of clicking/pop type of sound whilst the audio is playing right after the first clicking noise after hitting play.
Formerly it occured frequently when network traffic occured (occuring throuougt the playback not just at the start, (specifically when searching ebay listening to high quality mp3 seemed a good test) on populated PCI bus (VGA through PCI graphic - NIC - Audigy). After recapping the PCI VGA card the problem persisted, the NIC (Intel 100Mb MA - is all surface mount componentry).
Commonly mounting the card at the bottom of the board far away from other components is thought to improve the situation.
I've searched occasionally to find a direct solution but usually it returns information not directly related to solving clicking and popping problem at the source directly. (usually searching finds quality improvement or blanket style cap upgrading) I'm not really that intersted in sound "quality" per say, the purpose of these cards is to enable games to run at optimal speed/minimal cost.
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Ok so I've changed a few caps (blindly with no knowledge what I'm doing or why I'm doing it), on an Audigy 2 card. (~Elgen to Panasonic/Rubycon)
But "clicking and popping" is still very apparent.
It can be reproduced by seeking in audio playback and stopping starting audio. Occasionally it is possible to hear another type of clicking/pop type of sound whilst the audio is playing right after the first clicking noise after hitting play.
Formerly it occured frequently when network traffic occured (occuring throuougt the playback not just at the start, (specifically when searching ebay listening to high quality mp3 seemed a good test) on populated PCI bus (VGA through PCI graphic - NIC - Audigy). After recapping the PCI VGA card the problem persisted, the NIC (Intel 100Mb MA - is all surface mount componentry).
Commonly mounting the card at the bottom of the board far away from other components is thought to improve the situation.
I've searched occasionally to find a direct solution but usually it returns information not directly related to solving clicking and popping problem at the source directly. (usually searching finds quality improvement or blanket style cap upgrading) I'm not really that intersted in sound "quality" per say, the purpose of these cards is to enable games to run at optimal speed/minimal cost.
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