I got a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 and Creative Inspire P380 2.1 Speakers.

When I increase/decrease the volume, some strange sounds appear. I cannot explain them to you properly but the closest way I think is to say that the look like the sound of the radio when we wander through the stations and the signal isn't good enough. Something like hsssss.

Hope I helped.

Would the re-installation of the drivers help?

Normally you'd get a popping sound if your playing anything and adjusting the volume, and it's particularly noticable when playing something with plenty of bass.

Maybe this helps:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=129666

OK, but why has it started to happen now and not from the beginning?



Actually, I don't think that it helped but thanks anyway. I'll reinstall the drivers after I unplug and plug the cables on the subwoofer and the audio card.

At my portable for instance, if the headphones isn't plugged in properly, when adjustin the volume, it makes some sounds.

I'll try it and let you know. Bye for now.

If its happening when there is nothing playing then something is getting a DC offset into the system and changing the gains makes a transient.

Check your mixer for anything being turned on that should be off like mic, line in, mono mix, telephony and anything else thats not either wave or master.

Also go into the advanced button and try ticking/unticking things in there. I had a crappy old sound card that would do things like that if the 3d effects were on, turning them off solved it, but sometimes it would do it with them off so you just had to turn it on and off again..

Also, the waveout may have stopped with a non-zero sample in it, try playing silence and see if the problem goes away.

Just to clarify, you're talking about when you adjust the volume on the computer control panel, not the knob on the speakers, right? Cause if it's the speakers it is no mystery.

Speaker or amplifier volume knobs will pick up a bit of hiss or crackle with age, because the surface of the potentiameter contact gets a bit oxidized. You only hear it while changing the volume. You can get rid of it by rapidly twisting the knob back and forth to clean it off (while the speakers are turned off is fine, so you don't blast yourself).