I can hear my HD thinking through my speakers

[Haze187]

this has been a problem for a long time. sound blaster live value, with multiple speakers, even AUX on home stereo, when ever they are on and tere is no music or game sound, like surfing the net, i can hear every hard drive movement and action through the speekers, even the sub!!!!!!!!!

what is up?

[curtybob]

this is caused by radiowave interference created by all electronic parts. there are not too many options i could find when my onboard sound gave me the same bit. I tried different drivers, and different settings in the balance and fader, but none of that helped. I actually bought a soundcard , much like yours, to fix it.
what you can try is moving your sound card to a spot that is farther away (read: bottom pci slot) from the problem.

[chrisinthesun20]

You could also try switching the volume bias from the PC volume setting to any external volume setting that you may have.

I have my PC rigged into a Denon amp, and I always have the master and direct sound volume sliders set about half way in Windows, and increase the external amp volume to get the level I require. (putting the load on the external amp rather than the soundcard internal amp)

This is because the volume hardware in a good amp (or a good set of powered speakers), is often better than what is on a soundcard, - when I had a similar problem to what you are experiencing, this definitely made things much better.

[Reeper47]

HI,

Try muting your cd volume and aux.