pops and crackles - solved

Hi gents,
after upgrading the onboard videocard of my box (intel i 3770 cpu,hd 4000,no crackles aso)
randomly pops and crackles appear during mixing, mastering aso.
Specially if I open a software gui like voxengo elephant-
it´s start´s getting noisier .It´s a passiv zotac gt 640.
Running Win 7 64 bit and Sonar X3 pro d, all driver´s up to date,mainboard asus Z77 aso.
Any idea ?
 
Thanks in advance!
Pragi

Good idea,
before I installed the new videocard, I  didn´t find the 
driver  for the onboard videocard,
So now I will remove the new videocard and search again!
 
Any idea where?
 
 
 

Thanks gents for your hinds,
now I disabled in the bios enerything which sounds like the onboard videocard,
but this bios is a bit strange, cause there are no devices like "intel hd 400" 
or VGA monitor etc,
there is only a dialogue like which graphic to use as main monitor (now PCIE).
It´s not a irq conflict.
I´m downloading the intel videodriver´s to uninstall them, cause I still couldn´t find them.
Will try this afternoon if the crackles aso have disappeared.
If not, I guess reading the bios manual and asking you with new info´s seems to be a good idea.
 
Thanks for raising  me on the horse!
,
 

 
 Doublepost
 

Not to be funny, but why not just use the hd4000?

So you added a new video card to replace/upgrade the on board VGA, experienced issues, went back to the original no-issues-onboard VGA , but the issues persist?

if you're not sure what you did it makes it very difficult to troubleshoot (i did read your post, more than once)
 
maybe someone has experienced the same?

Hi gents,
now it´s getting delicious.
The last days I tried several things to increase the source of this not loud,
but disturbing sounds,which are very small and randomly,no real pops:

Deactivated first the onboard videodevice, newstart and .... noises.
Deactivated the Nvidia geforce GT 640 and trying with the onboard videocard... noises.
Deactivated and removed the Geforce gt 6400,newstart, still noises.
So I left the box in this configuration with the onboard videocard,
to shootout the gt 640 as a source for this ,sorry,sh-------.

@Cjay,thanks,
I confused E/A conflict with IRQ sharing, so sure I had to try every PCI Slot for
the La Cie firewirecard ,but still ......noi....
Is it possible that the source of the noises is a wrong setup of irq in the bios?
If yes, which setup can be recommended?

Another question about that:
could the PCI firewire card be the source of that,
cause the modern mainboards use reduced pci-e slots as pci slot ,anybody knows?

@ maxipower,
thanks for your hind,
I use a focusrite saffire pro 40 via output 1 and 2 balanced jack to balanced xlr
input of the Yamaha hs80m..This reminds that
I also got a new monitor at the time I got a videocard, the last modell was defect (benQ hd 2450)but no noises.
The new benq could also be a source for this noise
Both audio-monitors(the yamahas) use the same power source.

Not shure ,but the next step should be to change the settings of the bios ( irq),
if yes, to which settings?
if not, what do you recommend as the next step?

Thanks for every hind,
Pragi

I forgot to mention:
Antivirus ,firewall and network are disabled when mixing/mastering.
The mainboard is an Asus P8 Z77- vlz

@lawo
Please stop if you can´t answer my questions,.
Thanks a lot.

Now you are on 3.3 of Mix Control I hear so that's great.
FYI the other thing that caught me out was under Edit -> preferences -> MIDI -> Playback and Recording... I had my Prepare using X millisecond buffers set too low, for me it's stable when X= 250.
 
Thanks...