High-pitched squeal/whine in headset?

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TurtleLord44

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Hey guys,
I've been dealing with this problem for about seven months now but it's finally driven me crazy. MY headphones (Razer Carcharias) emit a high-pitched coil whine into my ears. It's quite subtle on the desktop, but as soon as I put my PC into load like when I launch a game, it becomes a squeal and is incessant and awful. The headphones have a USB, headphone, and microphone jack. When I unplug the USB the noise cancels (as well as all other sound). I've tried putting the jacks and USB into different places, but to no avail. I keep them in the back IO ports most of the time. I don't have a soundcard, so I'm just using onboard Asrock audio (I believe it is Realtek).

Please help! I've been struggling with this problem for too long and it really is unbearable.
Thank you for any help you can give.
 
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Nothing to do with the jacks. Just when the USB power port is plugged in.... The noise happens.
 
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Man, was really hoping that wasn't the reason. I've only owned the 'phones for a year and it cost 100 bucks.... I guess I'll have to though considering I've heard this kind of thing can cause tinnitus. Any suggestions for a new headset?
 
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If I'm honest I'm not much of an audiophile, I just want the best gaming and movie/youtube experience.
 
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I had the same problem with my external usb soundcard. I did some research and found out that the issue is actually hearing the electricity from usb, since it was usb powered. I had my studio monitors hooked on my card and when there was no sound playing in the system, I could hear the things you're talking about. Tell me if you hear any changes in sound you hear, while not playing any sound in system and just moving the mouse or scrolling the web page, as if the mouse movement affects the sound you hear.
Anyway I manage to fix this by pluging my monitors(integrated soundcard with seperate power connection) so they only get audio signal from pc and not power aswell. After that, the noise was gone. It was really hard making music with those sounds.
Maybe trying powered usb hub or something, but I doubt this would fix the issue since they get power from usb anyway...
 
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Those do look really nice, thing is my budget isn't very high considering I am also about to order a Razer blackwidow keyboard, deathadder mouse and a benq monitor. That's why I was hoping for a fix for my issue instead of a replacement.
 
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The noise doesn't change when i move The mouse, but it amps up a little when I open new windows, applications etc. I goes full force when I launch a game. I can't hear it much over the game sound, but when I pause I definitely can and it's very obnoxious. Not too sure if we have the same problem, but do you have any other fixes?
 
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Those are out of stock everywhere 🙁
If I do get another Razer headset are you sure the same issue won't occur? I'm a bit weary of their quality now...
 
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Sorry, but as far as I know, this is a common issue with usb powered audio devices. Its just that pc delivers both power and audio thru same cable. Or maybe it even depends on hardware u have in pc, idk. Im just saying, cause I had lots of this kind of issues and most of the time it was usb power related. Maybe trying powered usb hub? But, as I said, the headphones still get the power from usb... Seems to me, if opening new windows and putting pc to work, makes the sound more powerfull... I'm 99% sure its usb power issue.
 
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I have a Turtle Beach headset that is USB powered like yours, and experienced the same whine as you. After concluding that the whine is a result of 'dirty power' on the USB bus caused by case fans and such, the easiest solution that I've come up with is to plug the USB of the headset into my cell phone charger. The charger puts out a steady supply of power and is external to the PC avoiding the problem of dirty power.
 
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Been driving me nuts for ages too. I have an ASRock motherboard with internal sound card which has since Win 10 upgrade been buzzing-squelching-squealing horribly at random times, sometimes not at all but at other times awful. I was about to buy another mother. So I tried the Win 10 audio 'troubleshoot sound problems' thinking, this'll be rubbish (like you do). Ran said shooter - disabled all enhancements even tho they were NOT even active, and hit apply. It told me it had fixed the problem by setting the 'default format'. LOL ! Blow me down, it seems to have worked for me. Check it out guys and keep smiling.
 
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Had this same problem with a whiny noise coming through the headphones.

Solution: unplug keyboard plugged into USB slot next to headphone jack. Note that keyboard has backlit keys, which no doubt is related. Laptop is quite old so probably does not provide proper insulation for such a dorky keyboard.
 
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