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Sound Popping in Area51m2

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I have an issue with the sound in my AW lappy. First, this is totally different than the wifi/sound problems (I have that problem too).

I first noticed the random crackly-pops coming from both speakers while playing BF1942. While trying to resolve the problem, I noticed you detect the problem from the Control Panel->Sounds and Audio Devices by rapidly clicking on the play button for any of the windows sounds. It seems like if I click the play button again before it finishes playing the previous sound, I get a small pop/crackle when the new sound is started.

Does anyone else have this same problem with their AW? If not, any suggestions as to what I can try. I've unistalled and reinstalled the C-Media drivers (I didn't find anything later than what AW already has on their site). I really can't afford to reinstall WinXp as I have about 2 days of (finicky) setup on the drive. I did partition when I did the first reinstall in preparation for the day I'd need to to a full reinstall (with XP this happens far less than it used to, but it still happens from time to time - especially when you get brave some night and start screwing with beta drivers or something).
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Anyone? Can another AW owner try this out for me? Thanks.
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When I click fast enough, I get an _interruption_ of the sound, of course, but I don't get a real pop or click. Not in any way that would indicate a problem to me. I did turn my system Sound control volume down in the Windows settings, but turn it up a bit using the knob on the side though.. this seemed to make it a bit clearer when I first got the computer.

hope that helps a little.
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