I've been having a problem lately with popping and crackling on my speakers. The popping and crackling occurs when there's a huge explosion (ex. Battlefield 1942) or a really really low tone sound/voice (I can't really explain this one but the Crypt Fiend's voice from Warcraft 3 is one example and another would be a low note/bass portion of a song. Changing the subwoofer volume in the software or lowering the subwoofer volume has no effect on the popping sound.)
I thought the left speaker was blown because that was the speaker that would pop or crackle but when I put right speaker plug into the left speaker port on the subwoofer, it would crackle and pop to at the same time the left speaker would in a song.
Here's my comp specs:
Asus P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard
P4 2.4GHz
Geforce 3 Ti 500
Audigy 2 (The regular one)
Western Digital 120 Gb Harddrive
512mb DDR RAM
Altec Lansing 251 5.1 Speakers
Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
Someone told me that the subwoofer doesn't provide enough watts to each channel (only 90) and that's why it might crackle the way it does. However I can't seem to get only 2 speakers to work. Even when I set it to 2 speakers in the Creative Advanced Hud Console sound comes out of all 5 speaker and set the switch in the back of the subwoofer to 2.1/4.1 channels sound still comes out of all 5 speakers. Restarting the computer doesn't help either. Changing the plugs around doesn't work either, the green plug apparently seems to be the only one needed. I could pull out the black and yellow plugs and leave the green one in and sound still comes from all 5 speakers and the subwoofer. The manual doesn't help because the diagram of the soundcard ports don't match the ones on my audigy 2.
I thought the left speaker was blown because that was the speaker that would pop or crackle but when I put right speaker plug into the left speaker port on the subwoofer, it would crackle and pop to at the same time the left speaker would in a song.
Here's my comp specs:
Asus P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard
P4 2.4GHz
Geforce 3 Ti 500
Audigy 2 (The regular one)
Western Digital 120 Gb Harddrive
512mb DDR RAM
Altec Lansing 251 5.1 Speakers
Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
Someone told me that the subwoofer doesn't provide enough watts to each channel (only 90) and that's why it might crackle the way it does. However I can't seem to get only 2 speakers to work. Even when I set it to 2 speakers in the Creative Advanced Hud Console sound comes out of all 5 speaker and set the switch in the back of the subwoofer to 2.1/4.1 channels sound still comes out of all 5 speakers. Restarting the computer doesn't help either. Changing the plugs around doesn't work either, the green plug apparently seems to be the only one needed. I could pull out the black and yellow plugs and leave the green one in and sound still comes from all 5 speakers and the subwoofer. The manual doesn't help because the diagram of the soundcard ports don't match the ones on my audigy 2.