Comments on: Vista 64-bit and SoundBlaster X-Fi Crackling/Popping

By: Chinh Do

Chinh Do — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:32:07 +0000

Sorry to hear that. My fix turned out to work only sometimes. I finally gave up and used the built-in sound card on the motherboard. Chinh

By: Miz

Miz — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:12:53 +0000

I wish this fixed worked for me! I even did a factory reset of my machine and the cracking is still there. :/

Vista 64-bit.. Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi as well.

Any other tips?

By: tommy

tommy — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:01:05 +0000

omg i search for ages days!!! and this is the fix THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Chinh Do

Chinh Do — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:32:32 +0000

Kevin: That’s great. I think I had the same symptoms as yours. I hope this fix works well for you. My crackling problem came back even after this fix. Argg!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:35:12 +0000

dude, thank you soooooo much. you are officially my hero. I have been living with this EXACT problem for months, and it has been horrible. it was like rolling the dice everytime i booted, half the time i would boot to no cracking, the other half i would be cracking up a storm. I had since given up but decided to google it one more time and found this. THANK YOU =D

By: Chinh Do

Chinh Do — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:43:04 +0000

Anthony: That’s great to hear. I am glad this tip helped.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:06:39 +0000

Wow….I was having the same problem running Vista-64. Before what I would do is keep rebooting until I didn’t hear the crackling sound but your suggestion seems to have fixed the problem. I’ll let you know if I run into any more issues.