- May 25, 2016
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I am having sound problems with my onboard motherboard sound card that I will describe below.
Specs and System Info
Mobo- Asus M5A97 R2.0
CPU- AMD FX-6300 OCed to 4.7Ghz
RAM- CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB 1866Mhz at 1866 202 system bus
GPU- MSI R9 270 2GB OCed to Mem: 1525Mhz Core: 1060Mhz at +20 Power limit
Power-supply- CORSAIR CX series CX750
I am going to start at the beginning and go through what I have done to resolve this issue and what caused it. Starting off I had problems with my graphics card that caused my main display to become completely distorted with random colours when I opened a youtube video or some other 2D graphics accelerated application started in a browser, sometimes. It was not consistent and didn't do it with everything, however if it happened once when opening a youtube video it would continue to consistently happen when opening that video. The distortion was not of a few parts of the screen or certain elements but the entire screen in a constant pulsing of a random set of colours, usually a combination of grey, blue, white, red, and black lines.
It never seemed to have any relation to what was on the screen and was never the same. In all cases, the system had to be restart to make the screen normal again. I tried unplugging, changing resolutions, disabling displays and anything else I could think of to fix the problem without a reboot. I eventually reinstalled drivers (yes a complete uninstall with DDU) then the OS I tried older versions of the drivers as well. The problem persisted.
I when online and attempted to find a cure with google. The only thing that was consistent with what I was experiencing and what other people were is that we were all overclocking our GPU (something about under-clocking for a 2D application). After some testing, I found that any more than a 50Mhz overclock on my memory would cause this corruption of what I now assumed was video memory. Core clock had no effect. Another few places online suggested trying different PCI slots as a fix for the problem. This is where my current problem begins.
After switching from my PCI-E 2.0 16x slot to my PCI-E 2.0 8x the screen corruption was not occurring. I switched back to my 16x slot and tried playing a video that had proven to cause the corruption consistently. As I scaled up my overclock on my GPU the GPU and played the video the corruption happened where it was happening before. Switching back the problem was again
non-existent. Satisfied that I had fixed my problem I plugged my headphones back in and heard a loudish white noise accompanied by some popping and a squealing (not as high as coil whine).
Turning the volume up and down did not change the volume or noises produces and the front 3.5mm jack on my case made the exact same sounds. I have tried to reinstall audio drivers, disabling and re-enabling playback devices. The only software I changed between when this was happening and when it was fine was I had reinstalled my AMD GPU drivers (again cleaning everything out). I reinstalled because of issues with AMD overdrive interfering with MSI Afterburner's overclocking. This came with AMD's HDMI audio drivers so thinking that that might solve the problem I reinstalled the graphics drivers without the HDMI audio, this did not produce favourable results either.
I have tried different power bars and power outlets of different breakers and have seen no change. After having no success I assumed that I must have gotten something dirty or bridged a connection somewhere on a component. I completely disassembled my computer and dumped 95% rubbing alcohol over all the parts and wiped them down then dumped some more on letting it sit a bit and used an air compressor to blow it dry. Reassembling I found no difference. I looked through the BIOS and enabled and disabled setting relating to the onboard sound card then updated the motherboard BIOS.
I am assuming that at this point the motherboard or the power supply is the problem. I am now trying to decide whether I need to get a new motherboard or buy a cheap sound card. I am just wondering if the problem will carry over on a PCI-E slot. I will be able to test with a SOUND BLASTER E3 USB DAC but it is in a car right now and may be a few days before I have time to take it out and set it up.
If anyone has suggestions to fix it software or hardware side it would be much appreciated, as well as suggestions for sound cards or maybe ways to test if my power supply is the problem.
And yes this is my first post I usually can find answers by google and other people who have similar problems so I never had a need for an account.
Edit: Tried my ram sticks in different slots and one at a time no change. Also booted without a video card and still heard the noises. Any recommendations would be much appreciated.
Specs and System Info
Mobo- Asus M5A97 R2.0
CPU- AMD FX-6300 OCed to 4.7Ghz
RAM- CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB 1866Mhz at 1866 202 system bus
GPU- MSI R9 270 2GB OCed to Mem: 1525Mhz Core: 1060Mhz at +20 Power limit
Power-supply- CORSAIR CX series CX750
I am going to start at the beginning and go through what I have done to resolve this issue and what caused it. Starting off I had problems with my graphics card that caused my main display to become completely distorted with random colours when I opened a youtube video or some other 2D graphics accelerated application started in a browser, sometimes. It was not consistent and didn't do it with everything, however if it happened once when opening a youtube video it would continue to consistently happen when opening that video. The distortion was not of a few parts of the screen or certain elements but the entire screen in a constant pulsing of a random set of colours, usually a combination of grey, blue, white, red, and black lines.
It never seemed to have any relation to what was on the screen and was never the same. In all cases, the system had to be restart to make the screen normal again. I tried unplugging, changing resolutions, disabling displays and anything else I could think of to fix the problem without a reboot. I eventually reinstalled drivers (yes a complete uninstall with DDU) then the OS I tried older versions of the drivers as well. The problem persisted.
I when online and attempted to find a cure with google. The only thing that was consistent with what I was experiencing and what other people were is that we were all overclocking our GPU (something about under-clocking for a 2D application). After some testing, I found that any more than a 50Mhz overclock on my memory would cause this corruption of what I now assumed was video memory. Core clock had no effect. Another few places online suggested trying different PCI slots as a fix for the problem. This is where my current problem begins.
After switching from my PCI-E 2.0 16x slot to my PCI-E 2.0 8x the screen corruption was not occurring. I switched back to my 16x slot and tried playing a video that had proven to cause the corruption consistently. As I scaled up my overclock on my GPU the GPU and played the video the corruption happened where it was happening before. Switching back the problem was again
non-existent. Satisfied that I had fixed my problem I plugged my headphones back in and heard a loudish white noise accompanied by some popping and a squealing (not as high as coil whine).
Turning the volume up and down did not change the volume or noises produces and the front 3.5mm jack on my case made the exact same sounds. I have tried to reinstall audio drivers, disabling and re-enabling playback devices. The only software I changed between when this was happening and when it was fine was I had reinstalled my AMD GPU drivers (again cleaning everything out). I reinstalled because of issues with AMD overdrive interfering with MSI Afterburner's overclocking. This came with AMD's HDMI audio drivers so thinking that that might solve the problem I reinstalled the graphics drivers without the HDMI audio, this did not produce favourable results either.
I have tried different power bars and power outlets of different breakers and have seen no change. After having no success I assumed that I must have gotten something dirty or bridged a connection somewhere on a component. I completely disassembled my computer and dumped 95% rubbing alcohol over all the parts and wiped them down then dumped some more on letting it sit a bit and used an air compressor to blow it dry. Reassembling I found no difference. I looked through the BIOS and enabled and disabled setting relating to the onboard sound card then updated the motherboard BIOS.
I am assuming that at this point the motherboard or the power supply is the problem. I am now trying to decide whether I need to get a new motherboard or buy a cheap sound card. I am just wondering if the problem will carry over on a PCI-E slot. I will be able to test with a SOUND BLASTER E3 USB DAC but it is in a car right now and may be a few days before I have time to take it out and set it up.
If anyone has suggestions to fix it software or hardware side it would be much appreciated, as well as suggestions for sound cards or maybe ways to test if my power supply is the problem.
And yes this is my first post I usually can find answers by google and other people who have similar problems so I never had a need for an account.
Edit: Tried my ram sticks in different slots and one at a time no change. Also booted without a video card and still heard the noises. Any recommendations would be much appreciated.
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