• Grinding noise from speakers on media playback.
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When playing any kind of media, such as songs, youtube videos, dvd/blurays, and games, during playback I will get a random slowdown of the computer for about a second, accompanied by a grinding noise from the speakers. It's hard to describe the noise, but if you've had a computer crash and had the sound loop quickly, it sounds like that. It just randomly started happening a couple of weeks ago for seemingly no reason. Specs: Mobo: Asus P8Z68-V LX Ram: 16gb Corsair Vengeance CPU: i5 2500K stock clocks GPU: Gigabyte GTX 680 PSU: Antec TruePower 650W modular HDD: Hitachi Deskstar 1TB Optical Drive: Samsung BR drive I've tried seemingly everything to try and fix this so far, including: -Antivirus/Malware scan -Reinstalling drivers -New Motherboard -New Harddrive -New GPU -Some replacement RAM -Checking temperatures, all are normal -Run CHKDSK, MemTest86+, SMART tests, Intel Burn test, all came up normal. -I've changed connecting my monitor from DVI-D to HDMI, didn't fix it. This has basically made my pc nothing more than a glorified typewriter, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
-Does this also happen when you use your gpu soundcard, if it has any. (for example on a tv) -Does your cpu or RAM usage go to 100% when this happens? -Did you reinstall windows yet? -Do your speakers do this on other sources/does this also happen on headphones?
Thanks for the reply: -Well I have my monitor connected by HDMI to my graphics card, and use the internal monitor speakers at the moment. The problem still occurs with this setup. It also happens when I have my monitor connected through DVI with a separate set of speakers connected to the audio jack on the motherboard. -I've used 2 or 3 different hardware monitors and none of them indicated any spikes or heavy usage of either RAM or CPU when it happens. -Yup, I'm running a fresh install on a new hard drive and it's still happening. -Both my monitor speakers and my separate set of speakers do it. I've been listening to some songs for a bit through headphones and it hasn't done it yet. That may indicate something right there :smile: Edit: I forgot to say, I plugged the headphones into the front jack on my pc rather than the motherboard jack round the back, not sure if this could cause it to act differently.
Its strange that its also happening when you are using your gpu sound card. Might be that its just sending the sound from the motherboard trough. If the problem isnt occuring when you use the front output then its almost certainly a hardware flaw on the motherboard.
Strange thing is, after a couple of hours of not doing it, it's doing it again. This is also my second different motherboard that has had the problem. I'm going to try using my old sound card in this pc to see if that still causes it. It should narrow down that it's a hardware problem then right?
[QUOTE=Yellowamoeba;35965833]Strange thing is, after a couple of hours of not doing it, it's doing it again. This is also my second different motherboard that has had the problem. I'm going to try using my old sound card in this pc to see if that still causes it. It should narrow down that it's a hardware problem then right?[/QUOTE] Yep,
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