I dont use the digital out all that often so its not that much of a hassle to change. I just disable one when im not using it and enable the other. Its been working for me just fine for a month and a half now. when i turned them both back on at the same time. When I disabled the digital when my speaker was on. clarity and nice sound in my surround sound. When I disabled the speaker when the digital was on. when both of these devices were enabled at the same time. There is the Digital Sound Device for the Coaxial and then there is the Sound device for the speakers and the mic/speaker jack in the side of the computer. After i messed with settings for a while i found what i think is the problem. Well, it started cracking that night and it was quite frustrating. I had plugged in the HDTV analog/Coaxial adapter into the back of my computer and was using the coaxial to listen to music with my surround system at home. But, there was one thing i had done after that first week that changed something.
Dell had me update my bios and reinstall drivers.
I had updated the drivers and tried everything. I had this problem on my XPS M1710 when I got it. It might be far less hassle to just purchase one of Soundblaster's Audigy 2/X-Fi for Notebooks wireless cards, I know I am.
Dell apparently don't even have any idea what's causing the incompatibility! The real source of this fiasco is that SigmaTel don't create drivers for the cards anymore, Dell do. That's not to say they won't find a fix eventually, though I've had issues with the card ever since I bought the machine last year when it had XP.
I have the same issue and they told me they've been aware of the problem ever since April when they started providing an upgrade to Dell users who have this kind of audio setup. this problem is between Vista and all SigmaTel cards, they just don't post an advisory about it on their website. There is definitely some issue of compatibility with the sound and Draft-N. I find it hard to believe that the Dell techs do not know what is going on. My brother read this thread so I decided to disable my Linksys Draft-N card and guess what? No more problem with the audio, however, I once I enable it to surf the net it resurfaces. Didn't help, so they sent a brand new XPS. Re-installed drivers, disabled onboard audio in DM, disabled in BIOS, updated all drivers from Dell and Creative to no avail. I just purchased a Dell XPS 710 in June 2007. Has anyone had the crackling problem for audio played off the hard drive? I am waiting to try installing uypdated drivers for the DVD drive. I believe this is a problem ONLY with the drivers for the DVD drives, not a problem with the soundcard drivers (SigmaTel or others) since if it was the soundcard then ALL audio would be affected, not just audio playing off the DVD drive specifically. I have tried every sound setting combination in the control panel (different playback sample rates and bit-depths) with no improvement. But if I play it back from the laptop's DVD drive the pops, clicks and glitches come back (randomly). If I burn this file to a CDR and play it on my home stereo there is no crackling.
If I rip audio using Windows Media Player 11 into wav or mp3 or wma formats, the audio plays back with no crackling from the hard drive of the laptop. On my system, it ONLY happens when audio is playing back directly from a CD, or DVD. I am a sound engineer with a brand new Dell Lattitude with Windows Vista Business, also experience the crackling sounds. Any and all information or suggestions from the eggheads would be greatly appreciated. Some people have suggested downlaoding the chipset for the MoBo with the Intel interface, instead of the Sigmatel one - but since this is a new set-up, I'd prefer to avoid ripping the drivers right away. Oddly enough, the motherboard and sound driver information is not provided by the Vista Experience Index, so here's that information: Mobile Intel 945GM and Sigmatel High Definition Audio CODEC, respectively (that is about all the information I can get out of the Device Manager for audio driver information). Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
While I am comfortable with computer software and hardware, some of the deeper aspects are still a tad forgien to me.īroadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller
I found someone referencing Larry Osterman's blog about the audio stack change in Windows Vista and how it may or may not cause a problem since alot of audio drivers try to use DirectSound (?). I have not really gotten any real answers from Dell Support, so here I am. Any audio coming through output is periodically crackling.
It's been running flawlessly with one minor problem. I have just purchased a new Dell XPS m1710 recently.