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Windows XP sound problem

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by gf_de_beer

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After starting up, speakers make "pop" sound as screen blanks just before logon screen appears.
Same noise occurs during shutdown process, as screen blanks out.
Any quick solutions?

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by chill

Does your monitor have a three prong plug ? Sounds like it is not properly grounded.make sure whatever it is plugged into is grounded too.

by chill

Does your monitor have a three prong plug ? Sounds like it is not properly grounded.make sure whatever it is plugged into is grounded too.

by cnlson

you are hearing the sound card being initialized (booting up) and shut off (shut down) this noise is present in most sound cards i have seen. if yours is more pronounced you probably will want to shut the comptuer off and reseat the sound card

by thechas

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There are known problems with XP and some Sound Blaster cards.

Make sure you have XP drivers for the sound card.

Also, XP places all PCI devices on 1 sharred IRQ!
One trick is to change the starting windows sound to none or a very short file.

My XP system has sound problems, and I believe that it is because the sound card and IDE controller are sharring an IRQ. I worked around most of the problems by setting the start and end Windows sounds to short files.

If you can disable ACPI on the MB BIOS, you may be able to correct the problem, but you may then have shut down problems.

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