Cable Forum - 30M Painful Brighton !

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Originally Posted by db133 (Post 35637212)

Off Topic I know !! I use an interface for my music it all works ok but for some crackles every so often. I have tried turning off the internet Wi fi and most of it stops say 98% but not all. Any info will be most appreciated.

Had this problem before. The Wifi driver clashing with the LAN driver in my case. You can find out which driver is causing the problem by running LatencyMon. Updating the driver may not help if it's a hardware issue.

Read this for more info on why it happens and to download LatencyMon:
http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

Running DPC Latency Checker may help to see when there are problems even though you don't hear any crackles all the time:
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

If you have the same problem, to fix you could disable the LAN driver in Device Manager and leave the Wifi driver on instead to avoid the clash, or replace the wifi card with a different model/brand. I had an Atheros before and upgraded to an Intel Centrino card.

Using DPC Latency Checker can help you identify if you're still having the issue after you've disabled a driver.

Test with headphones to see if it's an audio problem that only occurs with internal speakers or with headphones too. If it's just internal speakers it could well be that your computer has one of Intel's dodgy transistors controlling the headphone jack. So external speakers would be a way around it.