Screeching noise from speaker when playing games (sound card?)

[blair]

Hi as in the title my Bro has a problem where the speakers make a screeching noise when playing a game but when using headphone plugged into the front this does not happen also music and everything other than games does not have this screeching noise.

Is it the sound card or something else i find it had to believe if everything other than games plays fine + when using headphone its works fine.

Thanks

 

[repton]

Sounds like the sound card is picking up interference from perhaps the graphics card, is it an on-board sound card or a dedicated card? If it's dedicated i.e. a creative soundblaster or the likes make sure the back of the board isn't making contact with any part of the graphics card if they're in slots close together, also try removing the sound card and re-seating it to eliminate any unwanted contact, if you can move the cards further apart it might just be picking up some coil whine from the gpu.

If it's an onboard sound card such as HD audio perhaps there is an issue with your motherboard you might want to have a look into.

I had a problem where one of my graphics cards was so heavy it was hanging down enough to make contact with my sound card, which actually caused some damage to the sound card from shorting out some of the solder joints against the gpu heatsink, though that was a triple slot graphics card.

Ive also had a creative card that picked up noise, you could even hear it when I moved the mouse.

Either way it sounds like the card isn't being shielded from interference the way it should be.

 

[BKCXb]

sounds like my creative card!!! they dropped drives support for it and on a fresh install I gotta use a patch to get it to work at all, but mine seems to do it on youtube videos, never during games.

In my case, since driver support is gone, My only choice is to abandon the card. In your case try to move it away from the graphics card. It's kinda hard since it does it during gaming to remove your videocard.

 

[blair]

its an onboard sound his system is the spare rig in my sig

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

Drop the frequency in your control panel sound settings to 48000hz see if that helps. also do it in your creative settings if you have them.

 

[repton]

Hey Blair, I found this :

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20100405133432734&board_id=1&model=M4N82+Deluxe&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

Seems swapping out the PSU fixed the issue on the same board. I actually had a very similar issue with one of my old PC's when using an ocz power supply. During game play your gpu and whatnot are going to be pulling more amps so that would explain the interference during games.

R

 

[blair]

he wants usb3 so i think might just swap the MB out for a asrock 990fx board yea come to think of it the problems only started when a new power supply was installed its was this one: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/600w-psu-corsair-builder-series-cmpsu-600cxv2uk-80-eff-80-plus-eps-12v-quiet-fan-atx-v23