Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > Sound Cards > Weird Audigy Problem

Weird Audigy Problem

Forum CPU & Components : Sound Cards - Weird Audigy Problem

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
BunnyStroker   08-24-2003 at 10:08:45 PM

Hi guys,

I have a Soundblaster Audigy Gamer. I initially had a pair of headphones (cheap Philips HP170 headphones) plugged into the line out jack. Set up like this I got strange audio artifacts. Notably - I would get a soft, high pitched buzz/squeal when I used my mouse wheel. The noise synced perfectly with my usage of the wheel. The mouse is a USB Logitech MX500. Other artifacts occurred, but this was the most annoying. Disconnecting the CD_In cable as well as the CD_SPDIF cable eliminated these artifacts.

Any explanations as to what was going on?

<b>1.4 Ghz AMD T-Bird underclocked to 1 Ghz...just to be safe!</b>

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
umheint0   09-21-2003 at 08:29:15 PM
- 0 +

Keep the cable away from the monitor cable and mouse cables. Shifts in the screen change the magnetic field around the monitor cable, which changes the signal going through your headphones.

As a side note, your headphones act like an antenna to any EM interference around your computer. That's why walkmen use the headphone cable as an antenna when listening to the radio - magnetic fields induce a current in a wire - longer the wire and closer to the source of the field and the stronger the field, the higher the induced current. Sorry to say it, but you're kinda SOL in the end.

umheint0's phat setup --> <A HREF="http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umheint0/system.html" target="_new">http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umheint0/system.html</A><--

Reply to umheint0
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > Sound Cards > Weird Audigy Problem
Go to:

There are 1286 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 1.357 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them