Hi, I fear that this is not an unknown topic, but all fixes I found on the web and in the forum didn't work out so far. The problem: I don't know when it started, but since some time my character is always 'carrying' some sort of crackling sound (like the one from frost spells or similar), which doesn't seem to be connected to any item I wear - putting off (and even dropping) all weapons and armor doesn't make the sound stop. I already tried 'player.DispelAllSpells' from the 'removing unwanted magic effects' thread above, but it didn't help. Since it seems that there is no 'fix' for that bug, some people suggested to replace the corresponding sound files by silent .wav files. This actually I tried by identifying the possible culprits in the Skyrim - Sounds.bsa file, 'replacing' them by creating exactly the same path under Data (e.g. Data/sound/fx/mag/icicle/...wav) and copy my silent sound with the same names to these folders. However, this seems to be ignored completely by the game - for testing I tried to replace some more obvious sounds, but without success. What I also tried is to extract the complete .bsa file with FMM, replace the sounds in the corresponding places and compile a modified bsa with Archive.exe from the Skyrim directory. The compilation works, but when I try to play with the modified .bsa file (i.e. just replacing the original Skyrim - Sounds.bsa with my new one), I get a crash to desktop on loading a saved game. Sorry for that lengthy descrpition - does anybody have a hint for me how to proceed, or what I'm doing wrong? Best and thanks, canigia