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[Drozmight]

Anyone have an idea why the sound on this computer would be clicking? I think it must have something to do with the hard drive, as it only clicks when the hard drive reads (the led lights up).

 

[Turkeybased]

the hd itself is clicking...? Ha thats bad. Or when the led lights up your computer makes the "beep" sound....

 

[Drozmight]

naw, the sound clicks... like when a movie or mp3 is playing, it'll stop and start so that it sounds like a click.

 

[Turkeybased]

did it recently start to happen? Is it slowing your computer down in some way? You can also look at the "desktop themes" to see if you have a "default sound" for activity

 

[Drozmight]

yeah, the computer was going real slow until I ran spybot and adaware and cleaned things up some. So far the only thing I can corrolate with the sound clicking is hard drive activity. it just seems real bizzare and is annoying. Say I'm on quicktime.com watching trailers. I can't watch the trailer while it downloads or it does the clicking and the sound'll become off some. I have to wait until it's done downloading to watch it.

 

[Drozmight]

The computer does take a very long time to load up windows. Could the hard drive not be in DMA mode?

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

go into you volume controls and mute everything except master, wave/mp3, and midi



it might be the line in or cd volume causing it.

 

[Drozmight]

that didn't seem to be it. i checked to see if the HDwas in DMA and it wasn't. i noticed the sound skipping even more when i'm messing around in the options like that.

 

[Danj]

Are you using onboard sound? If so, have you tried updating the drivers? Failing that, you could try putting a sound card in (it doesn't have to be anything special, even a standard SB PCI would do) and that should clear it up. If you're already using a separate sound card and you're hearing this, there's definitely a fault somewhere.

 

[Drozmight]

Thanks for the help. I couldn't figure it out, but it was a laptop and it wasn't mine, but my sisters, so I'll let her deal with it. I think it had to do with the HD not being in DMA mode, which I couldn't figure out how to get it to go into... rather wierd.