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Super long read, with information spanning the last 2 days, sorry:
It all started thursday when out of no where my screen starts freaking out with graphical artifacts/glitches all over the screen all the time. Tried swapping to the other DVI port, tried hdmi...no dice all graphical problems are the same.
Swap to DVI port on the onboard video card and no problems what so ever. So then just to be sure it wasn't the the PCI slot (ASrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Mobo), I swapped the video card to another PCI slot. Bad decision...now I boot up and comes to screen saying bios was reset, so I go into bios to change things back. Put setting back to raid...blue screen. So eventually go in with ide, see that the glitches are still there in new PCI slot and do the regedit deal (Windows 7) to get back to RAID setting in BIOS.
Does it sound like the graphics card (MSI R6950 Twin frozr II/OC), even though it wouldn't show graphical glitches until loading windows and all times after that?
Next up, I put in an old NVidia Geforce BFG 9800GTX+ for in the mean time of getting a replacement video card.
So it instantly boots up, recognizes it and works perfectly. Except now the bios screen pops up twice for some reason and u can't do anything to get into the bios, etc. till the second time.
I have since removed the GTX to cut down on possibilities, but when I installed it I started having audio problems and they still remain even after removing it.And now I'm also having Audio problems. A loud hissing at high volumes that my swan 2.1 never had before, which happens at high volume now whether the computer is on or not, but as soon as I unplug the 3.5mm from the computer it stops.
Everything in device manager says it has the most up to date drivers as well.
Seems like the audio issue has to be the motherboard itself, because I can run the 3.5 from the swan to my zune and play fine with no noise/hissing. And I can unplug everything from the motherboard as well as unplug the power supply and it will continue to make the noise for a few seconds then stop. Or I can just unplug it from the computer to make it stop as well.
Is there a stop gap I can use to get rid of the noise without have to send in the motherboard to be fixed a plug in filter of some type maybe? or any fixes anyone can think of?
My system specs are:
ASrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Mobo
MSI R6950 Twin frozr II/OC Video Card (now removed)
XFX 550w PSU
Intel 2500k stock fan
Samsung 830 SSD
LiteOn DVD burner
8gigs of Patriot Ram
And it has all worked fine until this.
Another piece to the equation is that sometimes when I restart the computer it will just stay making the hissing noise at high volume. Other times I have to go in and configure the speakers from the sound menu to have them work at all again, then if I turn up the volume the hissing is back.
Now, all that is happening is with the computer volumes set to 100 and the speaker volume set to 100, I can only hear from the left speaker and it is very low volume.
I don't know how to get even get back the normal volume with the noise now.
What is my next option other than sending the mobo for warranty, buying a new PSU to test out possible ground issues and/or maybe buying a sound card
And on the Sound screen now it shows 3 different unplugged HDMI icons that have never been there before. It only has 1 hdmi port anyway ;-)
I did have to press in pretty hard one time with the 3.5mm cord for some odd reason when I was putting the computer back in its cubby.
Wondering if that maybe messed up the ground in the audio jack...
Tried some headphones and it still had the hissing, which has now turned into a sort of oscillating hissing. Only the left speaker is working on regular speakers or the headphones when plugged into the computer.
Or would spraying Ultra Duster in the powersupply openings to clear out any dust, because I was hearing intermittent (What I assumed to be fan) noise. And when it sprayed it didn't just spray air, it sprayed the very cold propellant in as well.
All of this has me about ready to throw this thing out the window.
Could really do with some insight as to what is going on please.
Thank you.
It all started thursday when out of no where my screen starts freaking out with graphical artifacts/glitches all over the screen all the time. Tried swapping to the other DVI port, tried hdmi...no dice all graphical problems are the same.
Swap to DVI port on the onboard video card and no problems what so ever. So then just to be sure it wasn't the the PCI slot (ASrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Mobo), I swapped the video card to another PCI slot. Bad decision...now I boot up and comes to screen saying bios was reset, so I go into bios to change things back. Put setting back to raid...blue screen. So eventually go in with ide, see that the glitches are still there in new PCI slot and do the regedit deal (Windows 7) to get back to RAID setting in BIOS.
Does it sound like the graphics card (MSI R6950 Twin frozr II/OC), even though it wouldn't show graphical glitches until loading windows and all times after that?
Next up, I put in an old NVidia Geforce BFG 9800GTX+ for in the mean time of getting a replacement video card.
So it instantly boots up, recognizes it and works perfectly. Except now the bios screen pops up twice for some reason and u can't do anything to get into the bios, etc. till the second time.
I have since removed the GTX to cut down on possibilities, but when I installed it I started having audio problems and they still remain even after removing it.And now I'm also having Audio problems. A loud hissing at high volumes that my swan 2.1 never had before, which happens at high volume now whether the computer is on or not, but as soon as I unplug the 3.5mm from the computer it stops.
Everything in device manager says it has the most up to date drivers as well.
Seems like the audio issue has to be the motherboard itself, because I can run the 3.5 from the swan to my zune and play fine with no noise/hissing. And I can unplug everything from the motherboard as well as unplug the power supply and it will continue to make the noise for a few seconds then stop. Or I can just unplug it from the computer to make it stop as well.
Is there a stop gap I can use to get rid of the noise without have to send in the motherboard to be fixed a plug in filter of some type maybe? or any fixes anyone can think of?
My system specs are:
ASrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Mobo
MSI R6950 Twin frozr II/OC Video Card (now removed)
XFX 550w PSU
Intel 2500k stock fan
Samsung 830 SSD
LiteOn DVD burner
8gigs of Patriot Ram
And it has all worked fine until this.
Another piece to the equation is that sometimes when I restart the computer it will just stay making the hissing noise at high volume. Other times I have to go in and configure the speakers from the sound menu to have them work at all again, then if I turn up the volume the hissing is back.
Now, all that is happening is with the computer volumes set to 100 and the speaker volume set to 100, I can only hear from the left speaker and it is very low volume.
I don't know how to get even get back the normal volume with the noise now.
What is my next option other than sending the mobo for warranty, buying a new PSU to test out possible ground issues and/or maybe buying a sound card
And on the Sound screen now it shows 3 different unplugged HDMI icons that have never been there before. It only has 1 hdmi port anyway ;-)
I did have to press in pretty hard one time with the 3.5mm cord for some odd reason when I was putting the computer back in its cubby.
Wondering if that maybe messed up the ground in the audio jack...
Tried some headphones and it still had the hissing, which has now turned into a sort of oscillating hissing. Only the left speaker is working on regular speakers or the headphones when plugged into the computer.
Or would spraying Ultra Duster in the powersupply openings to clear out any dust, because I was hearing intermittent (What I assumed to be fan) noise. And when it sprayed it didn't just spray air, it sprayed the very cold propellant in as well.
All of this has me about ready to throw this thing out the window.
Could really do with some insight as to what is going on please.
Thank you.