Is this a joke (weird noise from computer)?

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devil22

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I had:

P4C 3.2
Asus P4C800
2GB Corsair Ram
9800 Pro 256
2 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax 9+'s
Sony DRU-510A

And the computer made weird noises constantly especially when the system was doing something, beeps, screeches, etc out of the speakers, when using the onboard sound. The following was changed:

9800 Pro 256 -> 6800 Ultra 256
Asus P4C800 -> Abit IC7G-MaxII

And now the sounds remain but are slightly worse, louder. How could this be? It can't be the cpu, ram, or disks, it had to be the mother board so I am to believe I got a motherboard with the same defect from another vender of another brand? That is so unlikely. Or is this problem typical of most onboard sound solutions? :rolleyes:
 
dude, its scary as heck isnt? like if ur driving a car and then u hear a bang and a shudder...but nothing changes in the driving it self....anyway, my bros computer does something too, his AMD's always did this, now he has a 64 and it still happens. i call it seisures, but it sounds like hiccups comming fromt eh computer. i dont know if its a combo of the speakers and HD clicks or something, but they would happen in like a 3 or 4 second burst just at random, but spaced times. maybe an episode ever 10-15 hours or so...methinks...the computer runs fine, so no worries about the little ones... but if its comming only from the speakers, you may have a bad sound device somewhere. and i'll assume you checked all the connections aforehand, so try to download new sound drivers, or maybe a cable is broken on the inside (happens all the time with headphones) ive had 2 p4c800's and the first one just suddenly refused to play or recognize the onboard sound....bad luck maybe? :(
 
did an animal chew on the cord going from your speakers to the sound card or something? it very well could be your speakers.. play them through a diskman or something and make sure the problem isn't there.. or maybe it is something wierd like the psu drawing a lot of power and being plugged into the same power strip as your speakers...
 
I agree - check your speakers and cables. I had some Altec Lansings a while ago that I'd had for several years and the sound kept cutting in and out - turned out the contact area for the input on the subwoofer had been pushed in so far over the years that there was minimal contact with the jack.

I must say though, what you describe sounds like onboard audio issues. I noticed some pretty poor audio on an old K7S5A board due to the onboard solution. My nforce 2 board has always been crystal clear except when the internal temps get incredibly hot (like when I forget to turn the speeds back up on my fan controller during long gaming sessions), and it will develop little pops/clicks/screeches. Goes away once it cools down
 
Might be interference. Try moving cables away from sources of interference, and cables from the mainboard, cards, etc.
 
I forgot to say I tried the speakers with another device and they were crystal clear. I also tried jiggling and moving the cables, no effect unless I physically unplugged the speakers in which case the noise stopped completely. I doubt it's interference since the noise also stops if I disable the sound drivers. I did update drivers, but remember this happened on an asus and abit motherboard. Maybe I need to buy a sound blaster instead of using onboard audio, but I can't believe anything this bad is acceptable to anybody.. It does seem a little better since I went into sound properties and turned up wave volume and turned down speaker volume though.
 
sounds like a lot of interference hitting speaker lines, either internally on the motherboard, or between the mobo and the speakers... noise is entering somewhere. Could be the jack, or could be right on the mobo the noise is getting into the traces going out to the jacks...

noise can come from anywhere though, maybe it's just a crappy case that gets poor ground and since it could be touching the speaker jack it might be entering in noise from your power grid.
 
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