Posted on 12/02/2021 10:33:16 PM PST by chuckles
I'm transferring to a newer computer and having difficulty with various things. I've got everything fixed now except my sound. The computer was working before but I upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10 and added a new video card to feed 3 monitors, About the time I put the 2nd video card in I noticed the noise in my speakers. I've tried headphones and the noise is there. I've tried USB speakers and the noise is there. I used a Bluetooth speaker and the noise is gone. I've changed the sound drivers 3 times with and older driver and a newer driver, noise remains.
The difinative test came when I used a Linux Mint USB to boot from and the sound works fine. It seems the motherboard sound components are good, I just need the right driver,......I think. In the control panel device manager it says I have an Nvidea HD driver. I replaced an AMD video card with 2 Nvidea cards to run 3 screens. I can't remember for sure, but it seems like it had AMD sound drivers before. Is that possible? I would hate to replace the old AMD video card to find out since I would need to buy another AMD card to get 3 screens. Since Linux works good so I'm confident the equipment is good. Am I on the right track for a driver problem or am I missing something else.
Describe the noise...
Although I don’t have an answer, and I am not being rude, you should post this again at a time of day to get the most responses - there is a lot of expertise here on FR, but you need more eyes on it.
-PJ
Head over here and listen to the two examples of common hum in an audio system.
Please note that drivers can and do cover up issues in sound quality. It sounds like your new, more complex system is creating new feedback, or is now helping you discover a problem that has been there all along.
I always look for a proper earth ground - yes, folks still get bit by bad grounds, and audio is one of the easiest ways to discover it. I keep a HumBuster with me when I occasionally need it to fix a ground loop or an effect from nearby equipment.
Even if the Linux drivers do not pass the offending sound does not mean that there is not a problem.
BTW, which video cards are you using, and with which motherboard?
All these things do make a difference.
It feels like 1991 in here.
It's a voice:
"We are your friends, chuckles, but you have to stop trying to resist us. We are your friends, chuckles, but you have to obey."
Regards,
It’s not ground hum, more like static every couple of seconds. I would describe it like twisting the connector in the audio jack. I have wiggled and twisted it 100 times and that doesn’t cause the noise. The noise just happens on it own. Also headphones make the same noise but cuts off the whole speaker system. Even USB digital speakers make the same noise. I’m using a Geforce GT 610 and a Geforce GT 710 for video. I have a Bluetooth speaker that has no noise.
Believe it or not, there are many people that stay up till 3am and later on FR. I’m usually one of them.
If I have to obey, you don’t know me very well.
Safe mode didn’t work.
Good advice. A floating ground is never a good thing. I recently had to replace my 60+ year old water pipe from the street with PEX. The very next thing I did was call an electrician to install a dual grounding rod system along with EATON Surge Protection. In my forty year career in telecommunications I've experienced several grounding problems along the way.
You upgraded from 7 to 10 but I gather you kept the same mobo? It could be your mobo is not fully compatible with 10.
Perhaps reducing the audio bit rate will help.
If not, you can plug in a cheap USB sound card with a speaker output. Worth a shot.
fwiw...
Having your handheld phone close to your computer
can cause static like noise to come through your speakers.
I went through several settings in control panel and slowed down my bit setting under speaker settings in the task bar right hand corner. put it on CD quality then when it worked I raised it to DVD quality, 16 bit 48000. I changed my power settings to "performance". Then I went through my Bios settings and cut off everything I could cut off that was enabled. Like I didn't have a CD player/burner, so I just disabled it. Then I disabled all my SATA connections on the MB that didn't have a Hard Drive on it.
Restarted and it worked.
Found a good free program to measure sound latency called Latencymon.com. It tells you what might be causing the drop outs. There was a driver that was waiting too long to stop trying to work. IN my opinion my motherboard was looking for Hard drives that weren't there and took up too much time to stream sound. I use a PCIE card to run my hard drives at SATA 3 speeds. The motherboard runs at SATA 2 speeds.
Thanks to all for the help.
I think I know the problem
off topic but computer related:
I have a guitar tuner app on my iPad. We learned a few months ago that Apple slows the iPad when the batteries get old. My question is, will that also introduce inaccuracy in the app’s measurement of a string’s frequency.
The slowing is done to hide the fact that the ageing batteries are unable to hold a full charge.
“I think I know the problem”
Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack? :)
I don’t know for sure... But I am thinking digital files would “cut out” rather than change any parameter values? Similar to videos buffering?
As a musician myself I know one thing, there is no real replacement for the human ear. No replacement for practice, training, and testing your own ears as a first priority. :)
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