[minifish2002]

Thanks for the forum . I have installed 10.5.6 successfully with 7.9 ISO.
When I play music. there is some noise in the sound sometimes.
I read some threads about the sound and rerun the miniscript 3 times.
No lucky.
Any other suggestions?

[UnaClocker]

Is it a static kind of noise? Some people have encountered static, but it's so rare that it's impossible to troubleshoot because most of us don't have that problem.

[Sauer Grapes]

I definitely get a static but not when playing music or doing something that normally has sound.

So far I know it happens when transferring a file to or from a usb stick, or sd card.

It sounds like "white noise" like ocean waves or something.

[minifish2002]

yes.
It sounds like that.
I met it when i delete file in sd the first time.
It is like sha-sha...
It often happens when some action was done

[minifun]

I get the static noise sometimes also. It is rare and comes and goes. Sometimes it stays for awhile and I found out that if I blow air into the slot openings on the right side between the usb and the microphone jacks that the static noise instantly dies out. It makes me think it is something heat related but curiously if I just let it sit it usually goes away in about 30 seconds by itself. It can get annoying though at inopportune times.

[kancept]

Seems to me it's just unshielded lines. I remember on cheapo sound cards, you could listen to HD reads and writes if you turned up the speakers with no other sounds playing. Laptops used to be really prone to this. As the Mini9 is inexpensive and tightly integrated, I'm betting it's just a lack of shielding or proximity to the storage data lines.

[UnaClocker]

I'm hoping people know the difference between static and that kind of interference. I'll bust out a can of STFU if this is electrical noise people are complaining about.

[kancept]

Mine DEFINITELY sounds like electrical noise. I can hear reads & writes, and it hasn't been in just OS X, so I've never bothered worrying about it. On the whole, I'm tone deaf, not an audiophile, and didn't purchase my Mini9 for it's "high-fidelity"

[Wolfman-K]

I am on day three of my OS X install via the type 11 install using iso 7.9

Just this morning for the first time I encountered "static" spontaneously starting. I was not playing video or music, the only thing running that makes noise was Adium.

It did sound to me like random static, it didn't sound to me like interference, but at the time I didn't pay too close attention. I just muted the sound and when I unmuted it about 20 mins later the noise had stopped.

If it happens again I will pay closer attention.

It never happened on my Ubuntu nor my Windows 7 installs on my Mini, so I suspect its something OS X related not hardware related but It's just a guess.

[UnaClocker]

Yes, we have established it's something about the OSX driver that causes it, but we've also established that probably 1 out of 100 mini's have this problem, and those that do, only have it at random times. Makes it all but impossible to fix, and since our driver is working so well now, we're not inclined to start all over on it.