Thread: Strange clicking noise

My current troubles never appear to end...for the last some weeks I have been having a strange clicking noise that arrives and goes. The noise is very obvious when wearing headphones and yet when I silent the volume it is yet there. I contacted Dell and they restored the sound card and it’s yet present. Most days it is a clicking sound, other times it sounds akin to intrusion or static. What is the issue? Dell says it’s usual...BS! I never heard it for the first 5 months I possessed the computer; it has been over the last two weeks.

Dell Dimension 9100
Sound blaster Live! 24bit card

Questions, are your earphones creating the clicking sound? Are they informed through your speakers or straight into the computer? Does the clicking sound arrive from your speakers?

Occasionally speakers are the trouble. I have had some that make bizarre noises now and then even when switched off (though still involved). It could be that a power supply or amplifier module in your speakers is going / has gone terrible.

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Also if you contain a Nextel mobile phone and it is assembling too close to your computer you will acquire static and clicking.

Cable fixed on PSU, CPU, GPU or other fan.

Occurs in Dells constantly.

Just release it, tape the cables further than the fans.

If it is a metallic thunking noise, it signifies your HDD is about to die, so backup all the information on the machine. (If it is a metallic thunk sound only, from within the box).

It sounds akin to it arrives from the speakers/headphones. If it is so, it might be that you have a cell phone near. It occurs to me, and I have these rotten speakers, they actually bug me... If you have quality speakers, this should not happen. My speakers caches cell phone "traffic" (for instance sms, mms, internet, calls, etc) yet if it is some meters away and trough brick walls.

BTW, the "detector" is at my office, at home I have an USB Live 24! w/ 5.1 Logitech speakers and this does not occur, unless it’s really near the speaker amplifier (on the subwoofer box). Oh and also counts on the frequency of the cell phone hauler band. I think my cell phone is 850, I think higher frequencies make less interference.

Ok, it is most obvious with headphones but...can be listened to with 5.1 speakers when I twist them up a bit. The noise is there yet when I entirely turn down sound. Particularly, noticeable with World of Warcraft...although is not there constantly. I can be playing Wow and its well, then I tab out to check something on my desktop and when I reply in its there, clicking away. Mostly sounds like a replicating click. No phones near by either... No idea.

Ok, then it sounds akin to a software problem.

If it occurs with some programs, similar to Wow... might be the drivers, perhaps Wow...

If it’s a software matter, why now? I have been operating Wow on this computer since Oct, no troubles.

It appears like distinctive must be incorrect, arrived beyond nowhere.

Convey up the volume control panel that displays all the inputs. Mute all that you don’t need: series, microphone, CD player, etc. If the clicking goes away adjoin one at a time back in until you acquire the noise yet again. I had a difficulty with static on mine. Ended up being the microphone volume was the entire gradient. Since I don’t employ or require a microphone at present, I just muted it and static leaved. I have also seen this with the CD player volume up all the way.

Hmm it could be meddling from power wires too near to audio wires. Or they can be tangled under your desk or something.

Attempt to divide the maximum you can audio from power wires and confirm audio wires are not knotted. They can form a solenoid, this way capturing electromagnetic waves (radio, TV, cell phone) creating that noise on your speaker.

Also, attempt to verify if your audio connectors are not oxidated... both from your sound card and speakers/headphones.