Sound crackling problem related to hard drive??

G-con · 09-19-2007, 01:35 PM

Hi there.

I have had this problem for sometime now so I'm really hoping one of you can help me sort it out.

Anyway here goes...

I have an Athlon XP 3200, with Windows XP. I have two hard drives. One set as my primary drive which windows and all other programs are installed on. The second drive is set as my slave drive and has all my music stored on it.

Problem is when I play music in programs such as Itunes, I get regular crackling noises every few seconds or so. The larger the file is, the worse the crackling (a wav file is unlistenable). If I am doing something else while playing a track such as burning a cd in Nero, the crackling becomes constant.

I have tried putting a few tunes on my primary hard drive and I'm 95% sure that the crackling problem disappears so it seems to be some sort of problem transferring the sound information from the slave drive to the primary drive. The fact that it gets worse with large files would suggest this is the case.

Has anyone got any idea why this is happening and what can be done about it. The secondary drive is an IDE drive as is the primary drive.

My soundcard is the Echo Audiofire4 and all driver are up to date.

Thanks for reading

PLEASE HELP!!!

oscaryu1 · 09-20-2007, 12:09 AM

Either you have an loud HDD or that HDD is dying...

G-con · 09-20-2007, 10:10 AM

Could that be the case? Just to clarify, the crackling isnt coming from the hard drive. Its coming from the speakers when I play music which is located on the hard drive. No crackling comes from the actual hard drive itself. Could this still be the case?

09-19-2007, 01:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
G-con New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 6	Sound crackling problem related to hard drive?? Hi there. I have had this problem for sometime now so I'm really hoping one of you can help me sort it out. Anyway here goes... I have an Athlon XP 3200, with Windows XP. I have two hard drives. One set as my primary drive which windows and all other programs are installed on. The second drive is set as my slave drive and has all my music stored on it. Problem is when I play music in programs such as Itunes, I get regular crackling noises every few seconds or so. The larger the file is, the worse the crackling (a wav file is unlistenable). If I am doing something else while playing a track such as burning a cd in Nero, the crackling becomes constant. I have tried putting a few tunes on my primary hard drive and I'm 95% sure that the crackling problem disappears so it seems to be some sort of problem transferring the sound information from the slave drive to the primary drive. The fact that it gets worse with large files would suggest this is the case. Has anyone got any idea why this is happening and what can be done about it. The secondary drive is an IDE drive as is the primary drive. My soundcard is the Echo Audiofire4 and all driver are up to date. Thanks for reading PLEASE HELP!!!

09-20-2007, 12:09 AM	#2 (permalink)
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09-20-2007, 10:10 AM	#3 (permalink)
G-con New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 6	Could that be the case? Just to clarify, the crackling isnt coming from the hard drive. Its coming from the speakers when I play music which is located on the hard drive. No crackling comes from the actual hard drive itself. Could this still be the case?