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by Will-D
Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:56 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Strange electrical sparking noise when opening Audacity
Replies: 2
Views: 644

Re: Strange electrical sparking noise when opening Audacity

Right, Please accept my sincerest apologies, I don't mean to waste any ones time but I've somehow managed to fix it! The problem was lying with my Xonar D2X Sound Card. I tweaked loads of things. Disabled a lot of recording devices like SP/DIF in, alt, aux, stereo mix, cd, etc that I wasn't using. C...
by Will-D
Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:35 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Strange electrical sparking noise when opening Audacity
Replies: 2
Views: 644

Strange electrical sparking noise when opening Audacity

Is this normal? The sound seems to be coming from the back of my PC, near the PSU, or somewhere around the graphics card region. My old computer did this too, so i'm going to assume it is a functional part of the software; perhaps some hardware preparing itself, however I felt it prudent to register...