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That's just a side effect of computer freezing before reboot.  The sound card has just a very tiny amount of memory in which it holds sounds, so when the system freezes and the game or Windows no longer sends sounds or instructions  to the sound card, the sound card may go into a loop mode, where it loops through the last few milliseconds of sound that went through it... and that's what you probably experience as scream. 

 

It sounds to me like you should install the latest video card drivers and maybe the chipset drivers. If this persists, your video card may have issues.

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Hello, please excuse any mistakes, as I am just a little bit frightened as I type this considering my computer has just screamed at me at full volume... 


Anyway, I have had my computer play two excruciatingly loud and high pitched electronic screams and lock up the first time, and then the second time shut the computer down and restart itself. I was watching YouTube when it seemingly locked up but I also saw something appear to open like a window for a flash and then it screamed at me through my headphones, and then the second, it screamed as I was at the loading screen of PUBG and shut the computer down! What could be causing this? I haven't downloaded anything or opened anything suspicious recently and I'm fully up to date on all my drivers, its just terrifying! My computer has had issues all day and was caught in a boot loop until I reseated the RAM and it came on. I don't know what is causing this behavior, so any help is much appreciated!

 

Thank you very much in advance for your help!

-EnergyEclipse

  • CPU
    Intel® Core™ i7-4790 @ 4.0ghz
  • Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-H81M-S2H (rev.1.0)
  • RAM
    Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM (X.M.P 1600mhz)
  • GPU
    EVGA GeForce GTX 980ti FTW Edition
  • Case
    Cooler Master Masterbox 5 Lite (With front panel removed)
  • Storage
    Western Digital blue 3tb HDD, 120gb Kingston SSD.
  • PSU
    Corsair RM1000x
  • Cooling
    CM Seidon 240v AIO / with Arctic Silver 5 (Pea method).
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I once did the unthinkable, back many headphones ago...

I split an audio split, again

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happened to me while PC crashed when playing some music due to RAM issue. Pumping 1.65V to the RAM fixed it, for now.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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That's just a side effect of computer freezing before reboot.  The sound card has just a very tiny amount of memory in which it holds sounds, so when the system freezes and the game or Windows no longer sends sounds or instructions  to the sound card, the sound card may go into a loop mode, where it loops through the last few milliseconds of sound that went through it... and that's what you probably experience as scream. 

 

It sounds to me like you should install the latest video card drivers and maybe the chipset drivers. If this persists, your video card may have issues.

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3 minutes ago, EnergyEclipse said:

Intel® Core™ i7-4790 @ 4.0ghz

I'm surprised how many people get errors and just leave their overclock running and can't fathom why the machine has a problem.

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1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

happened to me while PC crashed when playing some music due to RAM issue. Pumping 1.65V to the RAM fixed it, for now.

It's pretty frightening isn't it jee? xD I will try that possibly if my motherboard allows for such

I once did the unthinkable, back many headphones ago...

I split an audio split, again

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2 minutes ago, emosun said:

I'm surprised how many people get errors and just leave their overclock running and can't fathom why the machine has a problem.

It is not an overclock, that is the turbo speed and I've adjusted nothing in the BIOS as it does not allow overclocking and nor does the CPU, so don't worry :D

I once did the unthinkable, back many headphones ago...

I split an audio split, again

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46 minutes ago, EnergyEclipse said:

It's pretty frightening isn't it jee? xD I will try that possibly if my motherboard allows for such

Worst when it freezes when the song reaches climax and the singer literally screams. Thankfully I dont use headphones so my eardrums are intact.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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