My current troubles never appear to end...for the last some weeks I have been having a strange clicking noise that arrives and goes. The noise is very obvious when wearing headphones and yet when I silent the volume it is yet there. I contacted Dell and they restored the sound card and it’s yet present. Most days it is a clicking sound, other times it sounds akin to intrusion or static. What is the issue? Dell says it’s usual...BS! I never heard it for the first 5 months I possessed the computer; it has been over the last two weeks.

Dell Dimension 9100
Sound blaster Live! 24bit card