Vista - Vista 32 popping sound

Does it also make the popping sound if you use headphones too.

I too am experiencing a randomly (apparently) timed popping sound. It does sound like the audio cue from a pop-up blocker (pretty sure ads-gone once used it), but it is different from the one provided in the .wav file at the beginning of this thread.

The question for me here is, "How can I determine the source of a sound?" Which application/process is sending or generating this to audio_out? Can a log for such things be generated?

I actually searched for all *wav and *mp3 files on my vista 64 pc and listed to the ones that were shorter than a few seconds. No luck. Browsed all the offerings in the Sounds section of the control panel as well. No match. I have to assume the sound data is generated on the fly by whatever app is the culprit here. I also tried keeping a record of the times the sound is heard and then cross referencing this list to event timestamps found in the event viewer. No joy.

Turns out, this is a great annoyance :-)

Can anyone assist with relief? Am I missing some gem in another forum? Searching for "popping" often yields other real issues related to playback quality, which is a seperate kettle of fish.

Many thanks in advance -

Perry
(Heard two "pop!" sounds while writing this

anyone found a solution ?i have the same problem and i even brought a new sound card thinking it was the cause of the problem, this is driving me crazy

Went all the way to buying a new sound card? I'm almost there.
No solution yet that I am aware of. For what it's worth, I'm running:

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name BLACKBIRD
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model Blackbird-002
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz, 2833 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD P06, 6/25/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 4.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.34 GB
Total Virtual Memory 8.18 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.58 GB
Page File Space 4.29 GB

and

Name Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WDM)
Manufacturer Creative Technology, Ltd.
Status OK
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0005&SUBSYS_002C1102&REV_00\4&276FBEC1&0&4878
I/O Port 0x00009C00-0x00009C1F
Memory Address 0xD3C00000-0xD3DFFFFF
Memory Address 0xCC000000-0xD3FFFFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 17
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\ctaud2k.sys (6.0.1.1368, 668.27 KB (684,312 bytes), 10/8/2008 2:22 AM)

and audio codecs:

c:\windows\system32\imaadp32.acm Microsoft Corporation OK C:\Windows\system32\IMAADP32.ACM 6.0.6000.16386 21.00 KB (21,504 bytes) 11/2/2006 5:53 AM
c:\windows\system32\l3codeca.acm Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen IIS Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec OK C:\Windows\system32\L3CODECA.ACM 1.9.0.401 70.50 KB (72,192 bytes) 1/20/2008 9:50 PM
c:\windows\system32\msadp32.acm Microsoft Corporation OK C:\Windows\system32\MSADP32.ACM 6.0.6000.16386 22.00 KB (22,528 bytes) 11/2/2006 5:53 AM
c:\windows\system32\msg711.acm Microsoft Corporation OK C:\Windows\system32\MSG711.ACM 6.0.6000.16386 14.00 KB (14,336 bytes) 11/2/2006 5:53 AM
c:\windows\system32\msgsm32.acm Microsoft Corporation OK C:\Windows\system32\MSGSM32.ACM 6.0.6000.16386 28.00 KB (28,672 bytes) 11/2/2006 5:53 AM

Have an HP 24" LCD monitor with the speakers turned "off" and am fresh out of good ideas.

I think most of these popping noises are most probably caused by a lack of electromagnetic shielding, Mansrm's answer is very close to the mark, these noises can be caused by any electrical devices a typical example that most people should know is caused by a Mobile Phone to close to the Hifi or PC

Various answers, would be to change the speakers, move the PC, try a different wall outlet or to shoot the hairdryer.
Turning down the sound will in most cases not work as the onboard speaker will also be affected.

For the rest, have you tried to scan for malware?

well i dint had that problem with xp with the same hardware and the problem started when i installed vista x64

i think i fix my problem , i uninstalled comodo firewall and for the pass 2 day no problem so far.

btw i still have my router for firewall.