Weird sound problem/feature?!?!

[nehalmistry]

i think this is kinda pointless, but i thought i might post this anyyway.....

i got some cheap jensen headphones.... and i connected it to my soundcard,

and believe it or not, i can hear my hard drive through my headphones, whenever my IDE LED goes on, i hear a crackle in my headphones.....

somehow i can hear my harddrive, i can even estimate how fast im downloading a file from scour media agent..

pretty cool eh?

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P5A-B AMD K6-266@300
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg Ram
Ali V agp chipset
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[Kruzin]

Perhaps it's time to look into updating that "Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)" to a sound card from this century

[nehalmistry]

hahahaha..... lol.....

actually, it only happens with these headphones, their cheap phones anyway........

and i dont need a new sound card.... all i want is cd quality sound for listening to music/playing games..... i dont think its worth paying couple o hundred dollars for a3d/eax.....

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P5A-B AMD K6-266@300
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg Ram
Ali V agp chipset
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[Brian R.]

Nah, don't get rid of the card. The SB Live Value is too expensive, probably $60 Canadian

[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 12 October 2000).]

[nehalmistry]

$60 canadian... im sure it is... in my dreams....

[Wombat]

Hmmm. It would look chinzy, but you could wrap part of the headphone wire in aluminum foil.

[nehalmistry]

jeez, every time i click reload someone else posts... look at the posting times.....

wombat, no need to worry, i barely use the headphones, and its kinda cool anyway....




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P5A-B AMD K6-266@300
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg Ram
Ali V agp chipset
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[Liquid Snake]

Heh, I had a similar problem on my old system. I would hear the HD through the fan. Whenever the HD was used, the fan made a lot more noise. I know some fans are temperature-controlled, but the HD didn't generate a lot of heat.

[Aerobed]

Actually Nehalmistry, I could walk out the door and pick up an SB live 1024 for approx. 65 US dollars (149 guilders) right now. This is not even at the cheapest store in town(their site seems to be down at the moment).

So maybe your dream has become reality :-)

[The PIT]

On win2k if I turn the volume up I can hear the hardrive but with98 on the same machine I can't which suggests a driver prob in my case.

[Gurm]

It's not a driver problem. The Win2k drivers for the SB series of cards have the gain cranked WAY up on normally unused channels. Kinda irksome, and they're supposedly going to fix it... "soon".

Anyway, the issue with the headphones is half gain and half interference from the shitball headphone cable.

And a SBLive! Value OEM is now under $50 here in the states.

And you'd get more than just better sound - you'd get a faster PC since the newer cards use about 2% CPU overhead instead of 25%.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Alec]

On UT if I turn the volume up, I can hear my neighbours complaining through the wall...

[nehalmistry]

yes, 65 USD, which converts to ~100 CDN...

but i cant find that here, future shop is selling it for 150 CDN for tHe mp3/gamer and 250 for platinum...

so if i find it somewhere, i can probably find sb value for ~100 CDN...

but still..... i see no need for it, first of all, i will get new speakers, which i have been planning for a while, but havent had the chance, then once i get them, i will look into a live or maybe pci512...
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and i think gurm is right, its a cable problem with my phones... and it could also be that half way down the cable there is an on/off switch and a volume control, which i find somewhat useless.. it could cause interference
http://www.globe-mart.com/audvid/hea...dard/JM-10.htm

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P5A-B AMD K6-266@300
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg Ram
Ali V agp chipset
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[agallag]

At Logic in toronto, you can get the Sound Blaster LIVE! Value OEM Digital Ver. 2 for $74 canadian. Pretty cheap for a pretty fantastic card if you ask me.

Edit: They don't deliver though. I just posted that as an example.
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Andrew

I will not torment the emotionally frail

[This message has been edited by agallag (edited 12 October 2000).]

[Bixler]

Dead right Neh: Your switch and volume control are an open sewer. Auditorily speaking.

Enjoy the noise.