Hi all,
I have a set of speakers and a vintage amplifier which I've used with 2 of my computers. It's an old Rotel RA-412. I hook it up to either computer via a 3.5mm-Stereo RCA cable.
Whenever I do, I got horrible static interference. It makes more noise when the hard drives are spinning up, the processor is working, when I use the mouse scroller and so on- kinda like I'm hearing the computer working. This has happened with both computers. Both computers had sound cards built into the motherboard.
I've tried many different audio jacks to no avail.
Thing is, when I connect just an iPod I don't get any interference at all. If I plug the iPod into the PC to charge however (with the jack still connected to the iPod, not the computer), the interference comes back- even when the iPod isn't syncing.
I don't get this problem at all with headphones either, so it doesn't seem to be a mobo issue, and I'm assured this mobo is quality- it's a gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H which has built in HD 7.1 sound.
Is this an issue with the amplifier, is it too old for the computer?
Thanks...
I have a set of speakers and a vintage amplifier which I've used with 2 of my computers. It's an old Rotel RA-412. I hook it up to either computer via a 3.5mm-Stereo RCA cable.
Whenever I do, I got horrible static interference. It makes more noise when the hard drives are spinning up, the processor is working, when I use the mouse scroller and so on- kinda like I'm hearing the computer working. This has happened with both computers. Both computers had sound cards built into the motherboard.
I've tried many different audio jacks to no avail.
Thing is, when I connect just an iPod I don't get any interference at all. If I plug the iPod into the PC to charge however (with the jack still connected to the iPod, not the computer), the interference comes back- even when the iPod isn't syncing.
I don't get this problem at all with headphones either, so it doesn't seem to be a mobo issue, and I'm assured this mobo is quality- it's a gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H which has built in HD 7.1 sound.
Is this an issue with the amplifier, is it too old for the computer?
Thanks...