Could anyone please tell me what causes loud static in my speakers?

[Joe Chi Minh]

I can minimise it to some extent by keeping the speaker on he bottom command bar quite low, while raising the one video-clips or music sites, but it's very annoying hearing it in the background all the time, when the mute box isn't ticked.

[hobbit709]

1. Bad connection or wiring would be the first thing I'd check.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. No, I've just checked that, but thanks for the suggestion.

[RC]

2. Are they powered speakers?

If so, turn the volume on the speakers down and the computer sound up.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. No, there are no volume controls on the speakers. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. Lately, we've been using a cheap cyclonic vacuum cleaner, which

sems to stir up more dust than it picks up, and the old, black brief case I have the pooter standing on was until a minute ago covered in thick dust.

Is it possible that dust could somehow have got into the speakers? I realise that, if so, wiping its base down now would have been closing the door after the horse had bolted.

[WhiteTara]

6. did you put the DSL filter into phone line

of your computer?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. Bad shielding on the sound card.

If it's a mobo sound system, disable it and try a PCI card. If you already use a PCI card simply try installing a different one.

You can get a fairly decent card for as little as fifteen bucks at almost any retail computer shop.

On edit: If it's a mobo sound system you must disable it from withing the BIOS (at bootup).