Clicky/Popping Noise coming from speakers

[RIPPER JONES]

I have had my computer for around a year and have not had problems with my speakers until a week ago. I have Creative Labs speakers. 4 speakers and and a sub. I am playing music using Media Player. Throughout any song a clicking or popping noise happens frequently. I have checked all of my connections and configurations and everything is fine. Like i said this problem just started. Any suggestions? This is driving my nuts !! Thanks for any input.

[Thrax]

What soundcard? What motherboard? What OS?

[entropy]

Not sure if this pertains entirely, or if you can even do it with your media player. However. Make sure a setting somewhere in there isn't set to too high of a bit output. I accidentally set MPC to 32 bit for awhile, and could never figure out the clicking (on movies, obviously, not songs). Finally I realized that my card could only handle 24bit signals, and the extra 8 probably caused it to freak out (hence the popping).

Just a thought.

[RIPPER JONES]

What soundcard? What motherboard? What OS?

I have a ATI Raedon 9200 128mb 8x sound card and am running Windows XP
Intel Pentium 4 3.0

[Thrax]

That's your video card.