Ever since i built my computer this past May i have been noticing my music sounded worse. to confirm the noise issue, i got a program that played a pure sine wave, and i still heard the noise. The noise comes in patches every 2-5 seconds, and sounds just like static.
I have a Gigabyte MA790X-UD4P motherboard which comes with Realtek onboard audio.
The following are things I have tried to get rid of the noise.
1.) Reinstalled onboard audio drivers from both the Gigabyte cd included with the motherboard, and the realtek website. After resintalling many many times, the problem still persists.
2.) Check if it is speakers, whether i use speakers or headphones i still get the noise.
3.) try disconnecting my front panel audio from the motherboard. still get noise.
4.) Order Creative X-Fi Xtremegamer sound card (PCI). I installed this card today, and sadly i still get noise.
Now the crazy part here is that I am still getting noise!!! This means there has to be something wrong with the motherboard, or something that is so powerful it is interfering with the motherboard. Since the sound card connects to the pci slot, that means the noise is present there. It is also present on my audio jacks which are connected to the onboard sound.
I am feeling angry and dissapointed that my first true computer build (form scratch) has not been 100% successful.
I am running an AMD Phenom II x4 940 in a Cooler Master case. 650 Watt Corsair Powersupply, 4 gigs of gskilll ram, 2 hardrives (both sata), an Ati Radeon 4870 1gig video card. (and now the sound card)
I have also tried playing around with wires in my case, and outside the case, to see if they worsened the noise. No wire seemed to make a particular difference in the somewhat periodic noise.
Is my best option to call gigabyte support, and get a new motherboard? I bought it from newegg.
Any advice is appreciated, its really frustrating to listen to music with static ontop.
Sincerely,
Michael
I have a Gigabyte MA790X-UD4P motherboard which comes with Realtek onboard audio.
The following are things I have tried to get rid of the noise.
1.) Reinstalled onboard audio drivers from both the Gigabyte cd included with the motherboard, and the realtek website. After resintalling many many times, the problem still persists.
2.) Check if it is speakers, whether i use speakers or headphones i still get the noise.
3.) try disconnecting my front panel audio from the motherboard. still get noise.
4.) Order Creative X-Fi Xtremegamer sound card (PCI). I installed this card today, and sadly i still get noise.
Now the crazy part here is that I am still getting noise!!! This means there has to be something wrong with the motherboard, or something that is so powerful it is interfering with the motherboard. Since the sound card connects to the pci slot, that means the noise is present there. It is also present on my audio jacks which are connected to the onboard sound.
I am feeling angry and dissapointed that my first true computer build (form scratch) has not been 100% successful.
I am running an AMD Phenom II x4 940 in a Cooler Master case. 650 Watt Corsair Powersupply, 4 gigs of gskilll ram, 2 hardrives (both sata), an Ati Radeon 4870 1gig video card. (and now the sound card)
I have also tried playing around with wires in my case, and outside the case, to see if they worsened the noise. No wire seemed to make a particular difference in the somewhat periodic noise.
Is my best option to call gigabyte support, and get a new motherboard? I bought it from newegg.
Any advice is appreciated, its really frustrating to listen to music with static ontop.
Sincerely,
Michael
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