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MSI 970 Gaming Sound Problems (freezes)

  

DPC latency is always in the yellow areas - no matter if LAN connected, driver running, network-audio or offline-audio...

But I guess that isn't solvable by driver-things - because having either LAN or Audio doesn't makes sense...

Now I installed the new PSU on the old Mainboard - there isn't a problem with reading voltages, so I think the error rate at the MSI board is higher. Means another time: Mainboard with factory defects - not the PSU

 

 

hmmz dpc in the yellows doesnt sound good.

Most likely something wrong with the board.

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hmmz dpc in the yellows doesnt sound good.

Most likely something wrong with the board.

And what does that mean? Does a high DPC latency looks like a manufacturing defect or somehting solvable via software?

So far I learned DPC is the delay between an interrupt-order and the execution of that interrupt. Is that right, what's DPC in audio-things?

I posted a Screenshot-link on page 1 showing exacly what the DPC looks like everytime -> http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/271480-msi-970-gaming-sound-problems-freezes/#entry3687663

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Just got the return postage label from the shop for warranty exchange - luckily our german laws regarding warranty are very customer friendly (in the first 12 month).

So this thread can be "solved". It all seems to be manufacturing defect. A mainboard that can't provide what it should do...

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  • 2 weeks later...

It's crazy - exchanged the Motherboard and this time it's another Chipset. And a similar problem still occurred.

Same issue with input freezes even on the ASrock 990FX extreme9 - this time without audio and also the picture was freezed.

Only occured one time yet and there weren't any bad things till now - except a BSOD thrown by the cfosspeed-Software (XfastLAN from ASrock).

 

Defective CPU? I nearly exchanged everything except RAM and CPU and GPU now - RAM is working fine, also this system is capable of prim95-tests and hadn't crashed with audio in a few hours... DPC latency is great (about 200 µs) - but the same issue with graphics freezes...

Is the GPU bad? - That could be the only point - since I built another cooler on it the GPU sometimes has sync-issues when waking the screen up - but they don't exist within the currently installed windows 7...

 

Just to understand the error:

What's the phenomenon when you pull out a GPU from the PCIe while the system is up and running?

 

Edit - Memtest okay - 3 Passes, Prime95+Furmark simultaniously okay - no errors, CPU temperatures according to ASrock Extreme Tuning Utility:

Idle: 35-40°C, Load 60°C. GPU (hwmonitor): idle 20°C, load 45-50°C

No problems with ASrock board and sound - even 6-channel...

Voltages are okay, measured with the ASrock board I get clean voltages...

Only BSOD produced through cfosspeed-software (ASrock Xfast LAN) - stopped software - everything seems to be okay, but I'm still experiencing (this time) video and input freezes - this time around 4-5 hours of usage even without audio.

Current issues from the PSU would result in a power-outage through the protection circuits, that's not happening...

Dirt 3 Game - no visible artifacts - no errors - no crash...

 

I'm totally out of ideas...

Hope that was a one-time-freeze - I definitely don't want to return all the single parts to the 6-7 different shops I got them from - just because one of them couldn't work properly...

 

The only thing is the GPU - it has sync-problems when DisplayPort is connected and the screen wakes up from idle. But that doesn't seem to be in any connection to my problem - and the GPU is working fine under heavy (Furmark) load...

What's happening when the GPU doesn't sends any signal through PCIe (even if it's only short-time)? Northbridge hiccup???

Will try to get another GPU for testing it. But I totally don't have the money to purchase a similar card for now...

 

But for now - Happy new year folks... I don't want to miss New Years Eve due to AMD-troubleshooting...

 

I hate AMD systems... First time with AMD and congratulations - they managed it to get a continous fear of their products...

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  • 4 months later...

good morning.  i have the same issue with the msi 970 gaming.  

it started after 2-3 months.

 

i did thwe dpc latency check but nothing.

 

i does it in random times. i have tried many things but nothing. 

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good morning. i have the same issue with the msi 970 gaming.

it started after 2-3 months.

i did thwe dpc latency check but nothing.

i does it in random times. i have tried many things but nothing.

Roll back to the original BIOS
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i just take apart all my pc and concluded that it was my amplifier that have the problem!!!

:(

 

sorry the motherboard is solid in till now!

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