Okay, set to 1. Now all I need is a wife in the same time zone to try it out on.


One thing I've noticed, be it with Pal or wife, whatever the strength of the interference, it waits a few moments before manifesting itself. Don't know if that says anything.

Could there be a problem with the Microphone?

Dear Mr Holbrob,

I regret to inform you that we have decided not to offer you the job of assistant detective. There are two reasons for this decision.

One is that you failed to notice the seven clues that we laid, and the other is we feel that you would take too long to commute into work from your place of residence.

Thank you for your interest in this matter.


S. Holmes Esquire.

;)

Thought I'd have another bash at finding what's spoiling hours of chatting to the Rivetess.

Sound drivers were next on the list of things to try, but I found on HP's site, my driver was current. Very old but current. # 5 10 0 57 30 11/2005

Is this typical of older kit...do they stop updating drivers? Realteck SP? board or on MB chip.

I have the option of putting speakers on the laptop, but that's a bit defeatist, in the same way that Keef's hosting idea would be. Much appreciated, but I want to beat the system. Of course, Skype, with their 18 million users running at one time today, don't sit there waiting for support calls.

This noise is symptomatic of the switching involved in packaging the data, so the sound card idea was just clutching at straws.

I was surprised to see that I have two devices listed. 1394 net adapter and an nVidia nforce networking controller.

I looked again at Saab's pasted info sheet and looked very carefully as far as I could go in the Options menu. Some of the 'controls' are simply not there.
I had another look at Jo's post but am not really qualified to delve into the deeper networking issues. So much of it is gobbeldy-gook to me. However, looking for the exact boxes to tick brings a nil result. I guess I'd need a total hand-holding run through.

The thing is this is so consistent...I feel sure there is a switch somewhere that would cure it in one - if I could find it. :ugh:

Again, if either of you have a mobile phone switched on in the area - switch it off.

Could be that simple switch, worth trying.

I have very few people that I can used to test it.:( Thanks, but But I did remove all other radio sources during last attempts. What is odd is that nothing I do makes any difference...not even worse. It is a very stable 'nasty'.

I'll have another look today.

Well I'm blessed!

I booted from the other HD, and waddaya know, it doesn't do it.

I have no idea why, but at least I'll waste no more time until I install Win7, and see what it's like then.

Antiviral software different?

I only have Avast, and I'd turned that off. However, I was getting a feeling that something was attacking the signal as it arrived. Time for a pure disc again.