Sound Glitch.

Sockyrattles · February 17, 2021

Basically, I built a PC for the first time back in December, played some games, downloaded editing software, started a baby YouTube channel, and the computer worked great and crashed maybe 3 times, with no long term effects on the PC (to my knowledge). Maybe 2 weeks ago my computer crashed with an error saying: Kernel Security Check Failure, or something along the lines of that. I did a bit of research and found out that there might be something wrong with my RAM, so I went ahead and scheduled the windows memory diagnostic test for the next time I restarted the PC. Fast forward to 4 days ago, I was going to a Dentist's appointment, so I was shutting off my pc. However, the PC had a little yellow circle next to the power off button, which indicated that I could update it and shut it down. Lo and behold, I clicked that, and then I saw the blue screen indicating the memory diagnostic test I had scheduled prior was beginning. I thought that since the pc was going to update windows and shut down, it would be fine to let the test run its course while I was at the dentist. 2 - 3 hours later, I came back and turned on my pc and tried to log in, but it was stuck on the welcome screen (after I put my password in) for around 10 minutes, compared to the usual sub-5 second boot times. Once it finally logged me in, I opened up Apex Legends to test the extent of the PC's problems. In the lobby screen alone, my computer began to stutter visually and in the audio, which sounded like having a pair of bad headphones that electrocute your ears, minus the electrocution. I tested this stuttering with YouTube videos, games, and other ways to see the speed difference and stuttering more clearly. Also, when I opened 3 Google Chrome tabs, Discord, and Task Manager, the CPU percentage hung around 15% until I used Windows Snip and Sketch to screenshot it to ask a friend for help, which brought it to 30 ~ 35%. I reset the PC yesterday, which solved the visual stuttering, the slow startup/welcome screen, and the problems with the games. However, the sound stutter/glitch still remains. Please help, thanks.

Latvian Video · February 17, 2021

3 minutes ago, Sockyrattles said:

Basically, I built a PC for the first time back in December, played some games, downloaded editing software, started a baby YouTube channel, and the computer worked great and crashed maybe 3 times, with no long term effects on the PC (to my knowledge). Maybe 2 weeks ago my computer crashed with an error saying: Kernel Security Check Failure, or something along the lines of that. I did a bit of research and found out that there might be something wrong with my RAM, so I went ahead and scheduled the windows memory diagnostic test for the next time I restarted the PC. Fast forward to 4 days ago, I was going to a Dentist's appointment, so I was shutting off my pc. However, the PC had a little yellow circle next to the power off button, which indicated that I could update it and shut it down. Lo and behold, I clicked that, and then I saw the blue screen indicating the memory diagnostic test I had scheduled prior was beginning. I thought that since the pc was going to update windows and shut down, it would be fine to let the test run its course while I was at the dentist. 2 - 3 hours later, I came back and turned on my pc and tried to log in, but it was stuck on the welcome screen (after I put my password in) for around 10 minutes, compared to the usual sub-5 second boot times. Once it finally logged me in, I opened up Apex Legends to test the extent of the PC's problems. In the lobby screen alone, my computer began to stutter visually and in the audio, which sounded like having a pair of bad headphones that electrocute your ears, minus the electrocution. I tested this stuttering with YouTube videos, games, and other ways to see the speed difference and stuttering more clearly. Also, when I opened 3 Google Chrome tabs, Discord, and Task Manager, the CPU percentage hung around 15% until I used Windows Snip and Sketch to screenshot it to ask a friend for help, which brought it to 30 ~ 35%. I reset the PC yesterday, which solved the visual stuttering, the slow startup/welcome screen, and the problems with the games. However, the sound stutter/glitch still remains. Please help, thanks.

This isn't the best test out there, but try running userbenchmark and send the link here, before running it, close all background apps like discord, steam, ect. Sometimes I can tell is something is clearly wrong in the system.