I am using a PC with an on-motherboard built in sound card, and I am using SPDIF (optical) output to speakers (2.1).
The sound plays fine, but every time any kind of audio is played, whether its a soundtrack, video streaming, or even a windows beep, there is a loud crackling/popping sound. So if Windows was going to make a beep for instance, it would go "POP-beep." If I played a movie, the moment audio starts, it would POP then after that audio would proceed as normal, unless I paused the movie, then if I resume it would POP again.
I have used these same speakers on another PC before, and it did not have this problem.
Also, the PC that is having this problem did not previously do this when I was using a normal speaker output (not SPDIF).
What could be causing this?
The sound plays fine, but every time any kind of audio is played, whether its a soundtrack, video streaming, or even a windows beep, there is a loud crackling/popping sound. So if Windows was going to make a beep for instance, it would go "POP-beep." If I played a movie, the moment audio starts, it would POP then after that audio would proceed as normal, unless I paused the movie, then if I resume it would POP again.
I have used these same speakers on another PC before, and it did not have this problem.
Also, the PC that is having this problem did not previously do this when I was using a normal speaker output (not SPDIF).
What could be causing this?