X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook issues

[Glecent]

While using it to listen to music, or basically any other sound for that matter, I get an annoying crackling noise, seemingly at random, other than it almost always happens when I load a webpage. Disabling my wireless card gets rid of the majority of the crackling but not all of it. This also makes it just a little bit difficult to play FFXI and do anything else online. Drivers are all up to date etc. I tried looking on Dell's forums and Creative's forums but I can't find anything that will help. Any suggestions? Let me know what more information is needed.

[Cephius]

Some wireless devices, when they are sending/recieving a signal, have an adverse reaction on speaker systems. It's usually heard as a medium to high pitched pulsating static noise. The only thing you can do is, like you mentioned, turning off your wireless cords and moving any cellphones away from your laptop. I get this at work at lot because everyone and their mom has a cellphone or blackberry, and when they transmit information it often makes that sound on their nearby speakers. All you can do is turn that stuff off or move it away.

[Glecent]

Thanks for the response. I'd think it was just noise from the wireless card sending/recieving a signal too, except the cracking doesn't happen when I'm just using the onboard sound. Only when using the X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook. I think it might be that my ExpressCard slot and wireless card might be sharing the same IRQ. I tried to change it to see but Dell bios sucks so I can't change it there and in windows it's locked/greyed out.

[Sigi]

You'd use device manager NOT the BIOS to change the irq for your sound card or wifi card. Also, try pressing fn+F2 to see if the static stops after you disable the wi-fi card.

The only thing you would be able to do in the BIOS is disable the wireless card (which can be done by using the fn+F2 keypress without fiddling in BIOS)