I’ve had this constant crackling sound coming from my speakers. At first I thought they were getting old, but after doing a couple of experiments, it turned out to originate from my sound card (Audigy 2 ZS). Googling up results, it’s interesting to note many others have had similar problems.

None of the solutions worked for me so I activated the onboard sound. Everything seemed to go ok until I fired up “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.”:http://www.stalker-game.com/ Sound was good up until a certain point, then it seemed to cut off. Reloading didn’t work. I had to exit out of the game and restart it. Well, it happened a second time, then a third.

“Alright. I’ll go back to the crackling sound. At least then the sound didn’t cut off,” I said with an exasperated sigh. Go back to my BIOS and deactivated the onboard sound. Problem. Oh wait, I just gotta re-install the drivers. What do I get? A blue screen and memory dump.

What did I do? Did I forget to mention I didn’t remove the Audigy card when I switched to onboard? It’s been so long, I don’t know if that mattered or not. Might have or might have been I didn’t take enough precautions against static discharge.

Anyway, moral of the story? Don’t mess around with crap until you read up and know exactly what you’re doing.

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