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brotherS:
May be just the excuse you need to blow out the cobwebs by doing a fresh install of Windows. :)
-Innuendo (January 08, 2006, 11:49 AM)
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I'll only consider this when I have really, really, really bad problems :) Would take a week or two to install and setup everything again...

Uninstall the driver, restart the comp, and let windows reinstall it. This fixes tons of problems...

Also, I find that if something happens "for no reason" it's probably a heat issue. It's possible the "recovery" period is simply letting whatever is overheating cool down.   ...?
Whenever I suspect something is overheating I will just stick a desk fan in front of the comp/device. If the problem goes away it's heat, if it stays it's something else. Maybe your case needs a canned air treatment.

One last thing, how often does this happen?
-Hirudin (January 09, 2006, 05:43 AM)
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When I posted it hasn't happened in 5 or 6 weeks I guess. It used to happen more often...

I don't really think that it's a heat problem since I watch CPU temp all of the time, and I optimized the air flow in the tower case I own. But thanks for your "desk fan" idea, I should try that when it happens again!

Carol Haynes:
Maybe a dry joint on the sound card - they can be a devil to track down.

I changed my old sound card not so long ago as I started to get intermittent stuff like this, and then it suddenly became consistent on one channel. Drivers/new installs etc. solved nothing. Plugged in a new card and all was fine.

If it is working now then wait and see but if it becomes less intermittent it may be a developing hardware fault.

Incidentally I have an odd issue like this. I have a 7.1 surround system on my Audigy card and use an old CD deck to play music through though the system by plugging the CD deck out into one of the card's breakout box sockets. I was constantly getting crackling which I thought was a dodgy lead connection between the two as fiddling with the lead seemed to cure it for a while. Turns out, having replaced the cable, that it is actually an earthing problem. Even though the computer and CD deck are connected via the same earthed mains socket (bot via a UPS circuit) there seems to be a mismatched earth causing static pops and crackles. Physically earthing both jointly but touching the earth connectors with my fingers cures this problem until the next system reboot. Strange but these things happen!

brotherS:
Maybe a dry joint on the sound card - they can be a devil to track down.

I changed my old sound card not so long ago as I started to get intermittent stuff like this, and then it suddenly became consistent on one channel. Drivers/new installs etc. solved nothing. Plugged in a new card and all was fine.

If it is working now then wait and see but if it becomes less intermittent it may be a developing hardware fault.

[...] Physically earthing both jointly but touching the earth connectors with my fingers cures this problem until the next system reboot. Strange but these things happen!
-Carol Haynes (January 10, 2006, 06:50 PM)
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Interesting... I'll see what happens here. If I only get this rarely it surely still is annoying, but I can live with it.

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