Freezing/looping audio

[Tomahawk]

Does this sound like an onboard audio issueto anyone else, hoping a standalone sound card fixes it.

 

Issue:  Playing CS:GO and Left for Dead 2 results in a hard lockup 

, mouse and keyboard do nothing and it loops the last sound played.  It eventually comes back after a minute or two.  It only does it in those two games, everything else works just fine.

 

Troubleshooting: **"fix" first**

- Disabling the High Definition Audio  Controller resolves the issue, not a single lockup..obviously this results in not having audio.

 

- I have run Intel burn test, memtest, prime95 and furmark for extended periods of time and nothing indicates a bad O.C. Temps are all 

 

- Reinstalled the realtek audio driver from asrocks website and directly from realtek and it still happens.

 

 

Rig:

2500k@4.5GHz

H80

Asrock z77 extreme4

8 GB corsair vengeance

Gtx 780 acx

HX 750 psu

M4 ssd

1tb mech.

 

[Godlygamer23]

Possibly software interference between the games and the audio driver.

[LogicalDrm]

Try doing clean update on gpu drivers also.