Power supply making sound problems?

[suckit]

I built a system with an ecs board and pentium d 945, and was having problems with audio. there was faint static or poping every so often. althogh it is quiet it is anoying. also a loud pop at shut down, and occasionally at startup. a tech at frys encouraged me to swap out board for a new one and i did and i still had the same problem. so i also tryed upgrading from onboard sound to a creative audigy card and still had problems. i had all the latest drivers installed so im running out of possible solutions here. I'm no expert and this may sound crazy, but i was thinking it was possible that my power supply is so cheap that electrical current isnt flowing right causing some interference or something. i went the cheap route with the caase and bought a tricod 8068 with 480 watt power supply for 60 bucks.

Does anyone think this might be even remotely possible or am i just way off on this one?

 

[slicessoul]

does electricity in your house has a ground connection ?

 

[suckit]

Ac input : 115/230v ~ , 10/6a, 60/50hz
Dc out put : + 3.3v -- 22A (orange), + 5v -- 15A (Red), +12v1 -- 14A (yellow), +12v2 -- 16A (yellow), +5vsb -- 2.5A (purple), -12v --0.3A (blue),
Rating Output Watts 450W +3.3v & 5v = 130W

Thats what is says exactly. sorry i dont know anything about power supplies. I'm assuming that it has 2 12v rails one is 14amps and the other is 16amps. other than that speakers and everything are the same as my old system which worked fine.
Thank You

 

[suckit]

i dont think it is the speakers cause i hooked up my old comp again and the have no problems. i also tested with another set of speakers and it did it on those too. as far as when i use the disk drives i havent listened. the reason i was thinking it was electrical problem with the psu is because of the loud pop when i shut down it happens right when the computer turns off. i did notice some extra poping when there i open programs and stuff and i put more stress on the cpu. another crazy assumption of mine is the cpu could be corrupted. do think this is a crazy assumtion? thanks again youve been extremely helpful!

 

[suckit]

yes i swapped out the psu and have the same problem so i dont think the psu is the problem. do you think having an extremely cheap psu could damage my compentents anyway? ive narrowed it down to the board or a software issue. the ecs board takes ddr2 but doesnt support dual channel mode so the pc 5400 i put in is running single channel. it is to my understanding audio requries much higher refresh rates than video and switching to dual channel could help.

 

[suckit]

the psu didnt die. so i dont think anything is damaged.

 

[Shodar]

A couple of other things to look at:

1) Do you have a Mic plugged in?

2) Is your front panel Audio hooked up correctly? (if you have front panel Audio ports)

--Shodar