Soundblaster Live! and VIA Chipsets

[bobito20]

Has anyone else suffered from a "crackling" noise coming from the Soundblaster Live! card when combined with a VIA chipset? I have read a few things on the SB newsgroup that suggests others are having this problem, but no one seems to have a clue on how to fix it. I have changed the PCI slots that it is in, and that does nothing. Can someone help!!???

Thanks!

 

[Imported]

I get those cracklin sounds too, and I haven't found a way to get rid of them yet..

 

[cwand]

I've got VIA and SBLive and don't have any crackling.

 

[Dan]

Same thing here, i.e., I have a VIA chipset and a SoundBlaster Live! Value soundcard. No crackling from the speakers.

 

[Imported]

Funny.. they've seen to have gone away now, or maybe it's just my speakers..

 

[Erasmus-X]

It's probably your speakers. One of my systems has a Tyan Trinty 400 (VIA 133A chipset) and an X-Gamer.....no cracking here. The Thunderbird 750 I just built for a friend has an ASUS A7V (again, a VIA chipset) paired with an X-Gamer with no problems.

 

[Oreo]

Yeah, I also hear a crackling noise when playing MP3s sometimes. I´ve got a SB128 though so it´s probably not a SB Live issue, rather a VIA issue.

 

[fatboy]

I had some crackling at startup so I switched my conections on the back and it seemed to go away?? I don't know what would have made the dif but it did!