• My speakers make lasergun noises after sounds play (Amazing recording inside!)
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Every time a sound plays, as it's fading out i get this squelching noise though the speakers, sounds like a blast from a sci-fi laser gun. Here is a recording of it. [url]http://files.cosmicduck.net/Memo.mp3[/url] Pew Pew Pew! I haven't noticed it before but i haven't changed anything recently. The speakers do not seem to be the problem as it happens on headphones too. Using my motherboards onboard Realtek HD audio sound chip. Also may be worth noting, i think this motherboard is slowly dying as it doesnt boot every time, sometimes hangs in bios, bluescreens at random points during startup or just blankscreens. I also noticed that when i use my usb fan and mute my microphone, it makes a horrible humming noise that gets played instead of my voice to other people if i'm on teamspeak or something. Could be a ground loop problem? Any ideas?
[QUOTE=cosmic duck;32876859]Using my motherboards onboard Realtek HD audio sound chip. Also may be worth noting, i think this motherboard is slowly dying as it doesnt boot every time, sometimes hangs in bios, bluescreens at random points during startup or just blankscreens. I also noticed that when i use my usb fan and mute my microphone, it makes a horrible humming noise that gets played instead of my voice to other people if i'm on teamspeak or something. Could be a ground loop problem? Any ideas?[/QUOTE] Sounds like a bad onboard sound chip. Try a friend's crappy PCI sound card (you should be able to get one from maplin if you're desperate) and RMA if you feel confident.
[QUOTE=leach139;32878192]Sounds like a bad onboard sound chip. Try a friend's crappy PCI sound card (you should be able to get one from maplin if you're desperate) and RMA if you feel confident.[/QUOTE] Definitely this^ It doesn't sound like a driver problem either. Definitely hardware. A new mobo, or a dedicated sound card will fix this for sure. As for your mic, it may not be picking up your voice, but it is definitely functioning normally since the input jack is picking up reverb from your usb fan. Again, new or dedicated hardware will fix this too.
My mobo can't be rma'd and i don't have any free pci ports :<
I think you have a crap motherboard or other severe hardware problems. With all hardware diagnoses, I recommend checking if the PSU is failing first, since dirty voltage can cause a vast range of inexplicable problems. The easiest way is visual inspection of the capacitors inside the PSU and a voltmeter. Next, I'd check the temperatures on the CPU, NB and GPU to see if anything it overheating. After that, I'd run memtest to see if you have bad RAM. As for the doorbell sound from the sound chip, I've never seen a sound IC fail and cause a predictable sound pattern. There is probably a misconfigured setting or an application/virus making that sound. I had a similar problem with an Audigy 2 PCI sound card where it made a ringing sound every time a sound was played, which turned out to be a bad mixer setting. And the buzzing over the microphone, you either have a really bad ground, a PSU problem or the motherboard was so badly built that you're somehow getting crosstalk from the USB power to the microphone in lines.
go to the enhancements tab and tick the disable all enhancements? Worth a try.
No enhancements are on, memtest showed no errors, nothing is overheating (9 120mm fans take care of that). My PSU is a modular corsair 450W. The problem seems to be intermittent between days. I didn't happen yesterday when the pc was on. I didn't change any settings in between.
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