Crackling audio

[Lappan95]

Hi after I purchased my new GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual OC and Case: Corsair Carbide 200R I've been getting crackling audio from my Sound Baster Z pci card.

Tried switching to different pci slots, even the second 16x slot, fresh install of drivers, fresh install of windows, wiped my GPU Drivers and installed the latest ones, tried only installing the Nvidia graphic drivers, updates to latest onboard audio drivers, disabling the onboard and NVIDIA High defenition audio through device manager to no avail.

This issue can randomly come and lasts until I enable "spatial sound windows sonic" and then disable it. Then it's all gone until it comes again.

 

Anyone else has a clue what I can try next?

 

Edit: Onboard audio works fine without any issues, it's only when I use my Sound Blaster Z card it happens.

 

Specs are:

CPU: Intel core 6700k

MB: Gigabyte gaming k3 z170

Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16gb DDR4 2400MHz

GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual OC

PSU: Evga supernova g2 650watt

[Raudi_]

5 minutes ago, Lappan95 said:

Hi after I purchased my new GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual OC and Case: Corsair Carbide 200R I've been getting crackling audio from my Sound Baster Z pci card.

Tried switching to different pci slots, even the second 16x slot, fresh install of drivers, fresh install of windows, wiped my GPU Drivers and installed the latest ones, tried only installing the Nvidia graphic drivers, updates to latest onboard audio drivers, disabling the onboard and NVIDIA High defenition audio through device manager to no avail.

This issue can randomly come and lasts until I enable "spatial sound windows sonic" and then disable it. Then it's all gone until it comes again.

 

Anyone else has a clue what I can try next?

 

Edit: Onboard audio works fine without any issues, it's only when I use my Sound Blaster Z card it happens.

 

Specs are:

CPU: Intel core 6700k

MB: Gigabyte gaming k3 z170

Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16gb DDR4 2400MHz

GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual OC

PSU: Evga supernova g2 650watt

Replace the sound blaster z? 

[Lappan95]

Going to try it in another PC tomorrow to rule it out if it would be faulty.

[Radium_Angel]

5 minutes ago, Lappan95 said:

Going to try it in another PC tomorrow to rule it out if it would be faulty.

This probably has nothing to do with your error message, but I had an issue with the onboard audio of an older system.

Horrible static/crackling. Nothing I did made a difference, changed out speakers, new drivers, etc. Nothing.

 

Turns out my power supply was quietly dying and couldn't provide enough power to my system. Removing the video card, freed up enough power that the sound returned to normal. So, a new PS was in order and all was well with the video card back in the system.

[Lappan95]

Update on the situation, found my old AMD Radeon HD 6970 and with that card installed there are no audio issues from my Sound Blaster Z soundcard. So clearly the problem is with the GTX 1070 when it's installed.

[Lappan95]

Seems to have fixed the issue by disabling my CPU from down clocking in the bios, weird that the cpu downclocking to 800mhz would cause it.

[UnwantedLinks]

Ive had this issue numerous times. Uninstall your sound driver and then reinstall it.

[Lappan95]

17 hours ago, 6thOntheLeft said:

Ive had this issue numerous times. Uninstall your sound driver and then reinstall it.

Well the problem was with my cpu downclocking itself to 800MHz.