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audio skips while... typing???

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While typing in any sort of text entry application (Notepad, OpenOffice, Wordpad, Thunderbird, Gmail, PHPBB topic posting, etc, you name it) , the audio from CDs and MP3s skips occasionally (usually it's more of a 'hiccup'). this happens whether i'm playing music on Winamp 5, Windows Media Player 9 and Exact Audio Copy. this has occurred for as long as i can remember (perhaps it even happened on my last computer? i don't remember), but it seems to be worse now!

computer specs: AMD Athlon 2500XP, ASUS A7N8X deluxe motherboard, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard, 1 GB RAM....

this is really annoying. please help.
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Post by Meghan »

is it possible that you're typing is so butch and manly that it jiggles the wires on your speakers? Or perhaps the desk trembles - disrupting the wires some how?
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That's a weird one.

Keystroke logger maybe? You have plenty of RAM and CPU so it's not a buffer issue.
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Bring up your performance window and leave it on top while you type. Are you getting performance hits while you type. If so, find out which process is the culprit, and google that process name.

Doublecheck your msconfig and startup info. Run spybot and adaware.
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yeah, i tried that - there were system loads of up to 25%, but nothing looked amiss otherwise. could it be an IRQ problem with the soundcard??
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If you have an 'always on' internet connection, I'd guess some kind of spyware or something along those lines. Maybe some program you have is periodically checking the net.

Try unhooking your modem and see if it still happens.
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Giles Habibula wrote:Try unhooking your modem and see if it still happens.
what if i just disabled it?
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Heh. Yeah, I'm always doing things the hard way. :)

No wait! You must actually cut the wire. It's the only way to be sure.
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