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...een ICs on a card essentially act like antennae and furthermore pick up current by inductance. High end sound cards are often on an AC97 riser, or wholly external to the machine, in order to counteract this problem. Check and see if you can identify the timing of the spikes. For example, my old SB16Pro used to pick up noise from the motors of both the hard drive and the CD-Rom drive; you could hear both spin up over the speakers if the signal at the time wasn't prohibitively high. One thing you could do is attempt to insulate your sound card by hand. I don't know if the interference ha...

...n ICs on a card essentially act like antennae and furthermore pick up current by inductance. High end sound cards are often on an AC97 riser, or wholly external to the machine, in order to counteract this problem. Check and see if you can identify the timing of the spikes. For example, my old SB16Pro used to pick up noise from the motors of both the hard drive and the CD-Rom drive; you could hear both spin up over the speakers if the signal at the time wasn't prohibitively high. One thing you could do is attempt to insulate your sound card by hand. I don't know if the interference h...

...n ICs on a card essentially act like antennae and furthermore pick up current by inductance. High end sound cards are often on an AC97 riser, or wholly external to the machine, in order to counteract this problem. Check and see if you can identify the timing of the spikes. For example, my old SB16Pro used to pick up noise from the motors of both the hard drive and the CD-Rom drive; you could hear both spin up over the speakers if the signal at the time wasn't prohibitively high. One thing you could do is attempt to insulate your sound card by hand. I don't know if the interference...