Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 Static when shutdown

SirFoxx

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Hey there-

I got my board towards the beginning of march, and I've been happy with it. One day, when I shut my computer off, it made this loud static noise through my speakers, all the fans revved up to full speed, then shut down. It startled me, but I didn't think much of it at the time. Now, almost 2 months later, it still does it 90% of the time I shut the computer down. 'The other 10% of the time it shuts down fine, no static or revving of the fans.

I have also noticed that when I am gaming and talking with my friends on Teamspeak, my microphone will sound all staticy all of a sudden, and I have to unplug the mic, then replug for it to go away. Does this with my spare mic as well.

Specs are as follows:

Asus Sabertooth 990fx R2.0
Apevia 700w PSU ATX-AQ700W-BK
G.Skill Sniper 8gb 1866mhz
AMD fx-8350
CM v6gt Cooler
BFG 9800gtx

Sorry I don't have model numbers for some of my parts. I am posting from my laptop at the moment. Could there be something faulty with the sound chip on my board?
 

Adamm07x

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I'd recommend clearing your bios, if you think this is a mobo based issue. It will cancel all overclocking, or fan controls that could be messed up in your pc.

Also i'm not sure what bios your using on your board, but on mine there are options to let the Operating System control fan speed, i'd disable that since it happens when you shutdown. Also check device manager to make sure your sound card///driver is functioning properly.
 

SirFoxx

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I don't think it has anything to do with the fan controller. The fans only revv up all the way when the static goes through the speakers. However, when there isn't any static, the fans are just fine, so I think it is a mobo issue, but I'm not sure it's bios related. My audio drivers are up to date, and I am not OC'ing when it happens. The only real fan controller I use it for my video card, and the rest are being controlled my the Asus software.
 

Adamm07x

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I'm sorry i must of not stated what i meant clearly, i'm not refering to a fan controller, i think its probably a power issue, sometimes you can fix it with bios, but if you were experiencing surges and or brown power it could cause that problem when you shutdown, and if it still remains that means its even more likely that something went wrong with psu. That doesnt' mean psu is bad though i'd test it on another board at a local computer shop, But if the psu does mess up it can cause problems for every component including your speakers ///mobo. The first diagnostic i would do is change the speakers to monitor, and if your monitor doesn't have speakers than connect it to a TV with a HDMI port then just shutdown and see if the problem still happens, if it happens with all speakers than you know that there is a mobo issue or driver issue left.
 

grjatt

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I have had same issue and to solve it i can tell you what i did

1) uninstall ASUS sound driver restart your PC and when PC restarts let windows install the sound driver
2) prepare for things you won't be able to do like using your built in equalizer or other sound tweaks which you can use while using ASUS sound driver
3) you still be able to configure your speakers to 5.1 if they are 5.1 surround like i do

please note even if you install driver from Realtek website you are likely to have same issue again

I think its just a bad sound driver which ASUS needs to fix or could be a bios bug
Enjoy