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weakpoint

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Ok, previously I had some crappy motherboard with even more crappier integrated audio. That means there was constant static noise in the headphones which differed depending what the PC was currently doing.

So I bought cheap ass Creative Audigy SE but at least the constant static noise in the phones was gone. So everything worked fine.

Now I took that Creative card and put into another machine (also WinXP as the former), installed same drives as on previous system and it seemed to work fine for like 5 hours when suddenly after I just finished installing certain game demo (no idea if it has anything to do with it) the static crap came into my phones.

So what exactly happened? How come working so long silently when on idle my soundcard all of sudden sounds like integrated junk with static noise? Did something fry on it or what?
 
Ok thank god figured it out and got it fixed. It was the game demo I installed indeed.

Battlefield 2 demo, at the end of the install it had some microphone settings stuff or whatever I just chose cancel as I don't have a mic. But what it did was adding +20 dB Boost to mic which translated into static sound in my headphones.

I didn't even have microphone slider and settings in my volume control panel, had to enable through menus and then when muting microphone altogether I found out the culprit.
 
Good catch. I doubt many people would have figured that out quick.

A pet peeve of mine is whenever game demos continually want to install some old ass version of OpenAL that overwrites my perfectly good X-Fi driver's installed version (usually the newest).
 
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