Hello,
Recently a power surge fried my psu and i had to replace it. Thankfully the rest of my system seemed fine except that the audio output had very loud drowning static sound for my speakers and headphones. Since i was using the internal sound card of my motherboard, i thought it might have been damaged by the power surge. So i bought a cheap sabrent external usb sound card which reduced the static noise by 85% for audio output but it does not detect my mic. i have tried setting it the default mic, update driver and all the other obvious stuff but cant get it to work. Do i need to buy a proper sound card or is there another way to fix it?
Also after the surge i noticed that my ram seems to be constantly at 30-40% usage at idle and maxes out if i have bluestacks and chrome running at the same time for a while, which causes windows to freeze up, do you think the ram module is damaged or it is because of some hidden background process running?
here is my system:
cpu: i7-4790k
motherboard: MSI Z97 gaming 5
ram: single 8gb ddr3 1866Mhz kingston hyper fury x
gpu: amd r9 390
new psu: 550W evga g2 psu
link to external usb sound card:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IRVQ0F8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Recently a power surge fried my psu and i had to replace it. Thankfully the rest of my system seemed fine except that the audio output had very loud drowning static sound for my speakers and headphones. Since i was using the internal sound card of my motherboard, i thought it might have been damaged by the power surge. So i bought a cheap sabrent external usb sound card which reduced the static noise by 85% for audio output but it does not detect my mic. i have tried setting it the default mic, update driver and all the other obvious stuff but cant get it to work. Do i need to buy a proper sound card or is there another way to fix it?
Also after the surge i noticed that my ram seems to be constantly at 30-40% usage at idle and maxes out if i have bluestacks and chrome running at the same time for a while, which causes windows to freeze up, do you think the ram module is damaged or it is because of some hidden background process running?
here is my system:
cpu: i7-4790k
motherboard: MSI Z97 gaming 5
ram: single 8gb ddr3 1866Mhz kingston hyper fury x
gpu: amd r9 390
new psu: 550W evga g2 psu
link to external usb sound card:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IRVQ0F8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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