Grounding issue

Hi, I bought a new sound card (Sound Blaster X SE) and installed it a couple of weeks ago - I also got 2.1 speakers (PreSonus Eris 3.5 Studio Monitors with PreSonus Eris Sub 8BT). After installation, my machine wouldn't start. Both the motherboard and power supply were fried (I built the...

I have recently built my first pc and while everything runs perfectly fine, I think I am dealing with a grounding error. I was getting massive coil whine from my RTX 3060ti when playing games at high framerates. It was loud enough to be hearable even with my fans at full blast. I thought it was...

After trying unplugging the power cord from my monitor, I accidentally touched the pins that connect to the power cord and zapped myself, I was just wondering if this could be bad for the monitor and the peripherals(keyboard and mouse) I connected to its USB ports. Also, is this a problem with...

Hi everyone. I've been experiencing this problem for a long time. A couple of years ago, I got a new condenser mic which I have plugged into a phantom power supply through an XLR cable and then routed into a sound-card and then into my PC. My problem is that whenever I have the gain at a volume...

I have asus x570 prime pro mobo and its rear mic jack (pink) suddenly stopped working. Then when I touched the mic, it zapped me which means for some reason something was not grounded. After a while of checking connections I saw that my ups was leaking voltage in the ground terminal and so my PC...

Built a PC a few months back. Specs are: Meshify C Case Noctua D15 Cooler Nvidia 2070 Ryzen 3900x Asus Gigabyte Aorus Wifi 570 Corsair hx 850 Up till today, I would get shocked whenever I touched the wifi ports on the back panel of the motherboard. I have another adapter in the motherboard...

I recently (last week) bought a new laptop (Asus UXFN533). When it's plugged in to my speakers, it makes a humming/buzz sound when there's no audio output for <10 seconds. The buzz/humming STOPS when I go to sound configuration. It only does this with one of my speaker-sets so my guess is that...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to ground my pc (and only my pc) that's because i live in a great country where the grounding cable for the house doesn't exist. And my pc case shocks me every time i touch it while standing on the floor (pc newly built). So since my room isn't close to a garden, i was...