Screeching Scratching Hissing On Mouse Clicks and Movement

garystewartgarystewart
edited January 2005 in Science & Tech
For the Experienced or Amateur Genius:

A Mystery: I am getting spontaneous loud screeching and hissing sounds when I click on a directory or file, and sometimes scratching noises if I drag a window. This is intermittent and random. Happens and then stops. I have gotten: No BSOD's, No Application or System Errors Logged in the Event Viewer. No Trojans or Spyware I can detect with NAV 2003, S&D, AdAware. A totally clean HiJackThis Log. Just did a repair install of WinXP and the same happened. 15 hour stressed Mushkin Memory. Memtest showed absolutely No Errors!!!!

Tried a Creative SB Audigy, which I had used in the same machine previously without popping and it was now hissing and popping when I dragged a screen, But did not leave it in long enough to see if it screeches. So it seems common to all sound.

Power on the 12+ varies from 11.88 to 11.98. There does not seem to be a heat problem (38c to 45c). I disabled shadowing, bios cacheing and cool&quiet.

This seems to have started after a totally clean install of XP Pro which I did after I started getting BSODS with 9c exceptions. The 9c exceptions disappeared completely, but now I have this mess that is beyond my capabilities to diagnose.

Need some serious help.

Thanks!


MSI KT800 Neo FSR Bios Rev. 1.9
Athlon64 3000+
1GB Mushkin Basic
2 Samsung SATA 160GB Drives (Non-Raid Config)
Onboard Realtek AC '97 Sound or Creative SB
Nvidia GeForce2 MX200 32MB
Realtek RT8139/810X Ethernet Adapter
Realtek Onboard RTL 8169Gigabit Lan 10/100 driver Enabled
TAGAN 380W PSU

Comments

  • garystewartgarystewart
    edited January 2005
    Things are starting to get interesting now. The machine was off all morning and I checked the event viewer. Had two Redbook error entries for my two optical drives saying they do not support digital audio and should be replaced.
    I have a JLMS 166S DVD/CDROM drive and a BenQ 1610 DVDRW. Each has the latest Bios. DOH???? :confused:

    Next. I played a Music CD from the JLMS using the control on the front. Worked perfectly. Then I opened media player to try and play it from the interface. I got an interesting message:

    The procedure entry point GetIUMS could not be located in the dynamic link library MSDART.DLL
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    FWIW, sometimes with a fresh installation, the OS can get screwed up from the get go. Has happened to me a few times and had to reinstall again. Did you use different drivers from the last time?
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited January 2005
    I remember reading something about this. IIRC, it has something to do with noise in the computer interfering somehow. You have to uncheck something. Gimme a bit and I'll post back what I find :thumbsup:

    Edit:
    Crackling resolved by moving the SbLive from PCI slot 3 to slot 1. Also get noise when there is mouse movement across a window or when dragging a window --- this was happening with the basic Windows 2000 drivers as well. Cause is the CD Audio. Mute the Cd Audio and no more noise. Other than that I had no install problem and no system problems with the new drivers.

    The CD Audio seems to be a common problem. Even happened with my M-Audio Revolution 5.1 in games. Two more links:

    http://www.hothardware.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=24150&STARTPAGE=1
    http://warriornation.net/Forum/showthread.php?t=2425
  • garystewartgarystewart
    edited January 2005
    Entropy. You are the man. This is the first real info on the problem I have seen. Coincidently I just changed some speaker wires. Boy do I feel dumb.

    I will see if that solves the problem and make any necessary changes to insure there will be no interference.

    Million Thanks!!! :thumbsup:
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