Other have said it's the the Sigmatel drivers and vista. Since I use the wireless 90% of the time on my Lappy I figured I was not going to do that. One of the links that I discovered while investigating this issue mentions that the new 'Draft N' wireless is causing the interferrence and when they disabled the Wireless the crackle went away. The last straw was a call to Dell who after a very long conversation of them trying different things could not tell me why this was happening so they offered me money back for the Sound card.Never did get a refund.

I won't go on and on and tell you all I did as I'm sure you've done the same.so long story short I just uninstalled the Sigmatel drivers, rebooted, and after the rebooted it detected and installed a 'High Definition Audio Device' (Microsoft Vista driver from 2006).no more snap, crackle, and pop for me. I tried reinstalling drivers and that seemed to work for a day then it would start all over again. I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit. I'm actually typing this using the same Laptop and like you I had the same problem.snap, crackle, and pop when playing sound through the Laptop speakers. From my reading it does this on every OS, 32bit or 64bit. If anyone knows how this problem can be fixed please let me know.Ĭurrent configuration is Windows Vista Premium 圆4 bit. I truly believe their must be a solution for this problem. Some people have had Dell swap out their motherboards and some the whole laptop. The postings I have read go back to Windows XP and now Vista.

I have seen these cries for help for about two three years. It played CD audio, web videos, and windows audio perfectly, until I rebooted and then it all went crackling and popping again. Once and only once did I get the audio working perfectly. It is not just the laptop I have, it is a lot of models Dell sells and also have seen other brands with complaints too. It seems everyone has this problem with the on-board SigmaTel chip, but no one has a fix.

Placing a mic in and forcing pop-up so I can turn off Mic input.Ĭhanging WiFi card from a,b,g to just g wireless. Newest SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC Driver. I have read hundreds of complaints and possible fixes on the web. Hello, I have a Dell XPS M1710 laptop that has always had a crackling sound from the audio.

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