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azman66

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Alright guys when i play my mp3's off my hard drive the song gets a little (puff ..puff) sound randomly in the background. They dont stand out and they are actually rather subtle. Subtle enough for me to only notice with my headphones on. COULD THAT BE A SIGN OF MY DYING HARD DRIVE? I only ask because its a 7 or 8 year old WDC 27 gig hard drive and im worried about its health even tho its shown me no signs of impending death. Anyways, what else do you think it could be? Sound card drivers? I highly doubt that...what do you guys think. its almost like a little puff or crack sound as the song is playing....Very similar to a sound that a speaker would make when you tap a microphone randomly but softly.


let me know guys....
 
A general MP3 file is encoded in 128 Kbit/s, which is 16 Kbytes per second. If your harddisk cannot achieve 16 Kbytes/sec(it's a 27 Gig device anyways) it should have died ages ago. Windows would load for about a decade from such a disk. This gives me the hint that it's not the HDD, responsibe 4 your trouble, but the sound drivers or even the CPU if it's too weak and you set the decoder setting to high quality. It's most common a driver issue, but sometimes there is a certain miscompatibility between a sound card,(or even worse) a codec and the PCI bandwidth management, so there is not enough bandwidth for the sound. Try installing Via 4-in-1 or Intel inf drivers for your chipset. Other drivers for the sound would be a solution too. Assigning different IRQ may differ the situation. Try.
 
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