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Hello folks.

I have just run into a small but annoying problem, since installing Adobe Audition 1.5 my soundcard has been making a high pitch drone, I have removed Audition but the sound remains. does anyone have any ideas what has caused this and how to avoid it in future?
 
The only 2 reasons i can think could be causing this is either:

A) Your soundcard is too close to your graphics card inside your computer, so try and move it down a few slots.

B) Your speaker jack/connector has come abit loose at the back of your comp, or if you connect your speakers up lead by lead one of them has come abit loose, just check them all incase.
 
I seem to remember a problem with SB Audidgy cards doing this, try downloading new drivers for it and see if that does anything? It sounds silly, I know, but I have a feeling that old drivers has problems with this with some applications.

As Reefsmoka says, it probbably is due to one of those reasons - but if that fails give the drivers a try :)
 
There IS another thing you can do. I had this problem before, and I think it was caused by static. Does it happen when the PC is really working hard? Like in gaming? I also found that if I turned up the speakers really loud, when I moved my mouse around the screen the squeaky static noise would alter with it....strange... anyway-

Go into the sound panel in control panel, and MUTE the AUX, LINE-IN, MICROPHONE and/or any other thing you don't need to have. Personally I found it was my uneeded aux that was the problem.
 
Thanks for your suggestions, I managed to sort it out. It was something really dumb in the end, the CD audio cable was loose because there was a power cable leaning on it, I found this out when I opened the DVD drive and the noise changed and I was like 'doh, you idot'. So there was a happy ending to this story. My new PC is working great now (finally), and may I say - Athlon 64 Dual Core = the mutt's nuts!!!

TY again.
 
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