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  • #1

    Weird sound problem/feature?!?!

    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
    <font size="1">Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X MoBo
    VIA Apollo Pro 133a (694x/686A) chipset (4x agp, UDMA 66)
    Celeron II 733 CPU (coppermine 128)
    128meg (2x64) 133mhz SDRam
    Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP 16 mb
    Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital model 0100 (MP3+, Gamer)
    Quantum LM 30 gig HD 7200 RPM UDMA 66
    Realtek 8029A NIC Card
    Optiquest V775 17" Monitor
    Actima 36X CD-Rom
    Advansys 510 SCSI Card (ISA, but good enuf for my burner)
    Yamaha 6416 CD-RW
    Windows 2000 (primary)
    Slackware Linux 9.0(secondary/emergency)</font>
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  • #2
    Perhaps it's time to look into updating that "Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)" to a sound card from this century
    Core2 Duo E7500 2.93, Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, 4gig 1066 DDR2, 1gig Asus ENGTS250, SB X-Fi Gamer ,WD Caviar Black 1tb, Plextor PX-880SA, Dual Samsung 2494s

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    • #3
      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
      <font size="1">Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X MoBo
      VIA Apollo Pro 133a (694x/686A) chipset (4x agp, UDMA 66)
      Celeron II 733 CPU (coppermine 128)
      128meg (2x64) 133mhz SDRam
      Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP 16 mb
      Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital model 0100 (MP3+, Gamer)
      Quantum LM 30 gig HD 7200 RPM UDMA 66
      Realtek 8029A NIC Card
      Optiquest V775 17" Monitor
      Actima 36X CD-Rom
      Advansys 510 SCSI Card (ISA, but good enuf for my burner)
      Yamaha 6416 CD-RW
      Windows 2000 (primary)
      Slackware Linux 9.0(secondary/emergency)</font>

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      • #4
        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).]

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        • #5
          $60 canadian... im sure it is... in my dreams....
          <font size="1">Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X MoBo
          VIA Apollo Pro 133a (694x/686A) chipset (4x agp, UDMA 66)
          Celeron II 733 CPU (coppermine 128)
          128meg (2x64) 133mhz SDRam
          Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP 16 mb
          Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital model 0100 (MP3+, Gamer)
          Quantum LM 30 gig HD 7200 RPM UDMA 66
          Realtek 8029A NIC Card
          Optiquest V775 17" Monitor
          Actima 36X CD-Rom
          Advansys 510 SCSI Card (ISA, but good enuf for my burner)
          Yamaha 6416 CD-RW
          Windows 2000 (primary)
          Slackware Linux 9.0(secondary/emergency)</font>

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          • #6
            Hmmm. It would look chinzy, but you could wrap part of the headphone wire in aluminum foil.
            Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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            • #7
              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
              <font size="1">Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X MoBo
              VIA Apollo Pro 133a (694x/686A) chipset (4x agp, UDMA 66)
              Celeron II 733 CPU (coppermine 128)
              128meg (2x64) 133mhz SDRam
              Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP 16 mb
              Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital model 0100 (MP3+, Gamer)
              Quantum LM 30 gig HD 7200 RPM UDMA 66
              Realtek 8029A NIC Card
              Optiquest V775 17" Monitor
              Actima 36X CD-Rom
              Advansys 510 SCSI Card (ISA, but good enuf for my burner)
              Yamaha 6416 CD-RW
              Windows 2000 (primary)
              Slackware Linux 9.0(secondary/emergency)</font>

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              • #8
                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.

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                • #9
                  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 :-)
                  Rob, a great fan of the Aerobed

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                  • #10
                    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.
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                    • #11
                      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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                      • #12
                        On UT if I turn the volume up, I can hear my neighbours complaining through the wall...

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                        • #13
                          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...
                          ---
                          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
                          <font size="1">Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X MoBo
                          VIA Apollo Pro 133a (694x/686A) chipset (4x agp, UDMA 66)
                          Celeron II 733 CPU (coppermine 128)
                          128meg (2x64) 133mhz SDRam
                          Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP 16 mb
                          Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital model 0100 (MP3+, Gamer)
                          Quantum LM 30 gig HD 7200 RPM UDMA 66
                          Realtek 8029A NIC Card
                          Optiquest V775 17" Monitor
                          Actima 36X CD-Rom
                          Advansys 510 SCSI Card (ISA, but good enuf for my burner)
                          Yamaha 6416 CD-RW
                          Windows 2000 (primary)
                          Slackware Linux 9.0(secondary/emergency)</font>

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                          • #14
                            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).]
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                            • #15
                              Dead right Neh: Your switch and volume control are an open sewer. Auditorily speaking.

                              Enjoy the noise.
                              Greebe's juiced up Athlon @750 on an MSI Irongate Based M/B Marvel G200 TV with HW/DVD Daughtercard,
                              CDBurner, Creative DVD, two big WD Hdds, Outboard 56K modem
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