Static sound every two seconds on new computer build

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I'm sorry I don't quite know which category I should be putting my question under..

I am a newbie at PC building but I built my first one. :)

I'm thrilled with it except that my headphones (and speakers) perpetually have static every 1.5-2 seconds whenever sound is playing. This can happen on videos or when people transmit on Ventrilo. I tried both the front and rear jacks, and I've done a clean install of audio drivers numerous times...used the drivers directly from Realtek and the default ones provided in Windows 7.

The static adjusts with volume control. I've tried Googling my trouble to see if anyone else has had similar issues but I've hit a roadblock..

My audio is Realtek HD audio.

Does anyone have any suggestions of things I could try to resolve this?
 
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Alright. So! An update. I checked my BIOS version, I updated my sound drivers so many times I was seeing drivers in my sleep. I actually had a nightmare involving a computer blowing up last night......but that's besides the point.

I had tried my speakers as mentioned above, and the static was continuing. So I put my headphones back in, plugged them into the front, back, every possibly jack multiple times, messed with them so much that I actually shorted out my Turtle Beach Headphones. Enter sad face here. :(

Then I decided to Google my issue with a few different keywords and found someone talking about Easytune 6 installed on Gigabyte mobos causing static for them and system instability. They blogged about it. Thinking it...
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What do you mean "The static adjusts with volume control"?
Does it go away the higher the volume? Or just get louder/quieter depending on which way you go?
Do your speakers have their own power source, or are they running off the 3.5mm audio jack on the rig?

I have an idea of what it could be.
 
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If I turn up the volume the static is much louder. If I turn it down I can almost not hear it, but I can't really hear anything else either :)


They're both the 3.5mm audio jacks. I have two plugs, the pink and the green.

Thanks for your reply!

Editing to add a possible issue that may have caused it??... The first power supply that was sent with my PC kit actually blew up on the 7th day of using it. I had friends reassuring me that the electrical smell I was smelling was just the thermal paste getting used for the first time... But it was indeed the PSU. It popped and shot sparks out of the side of my machine.

I installed a Fatality PSU and it's been working beautifully ever since, but I am certainly a little worried that something else got damaged when the Thermaltake one went boom.

If you do have any other suggestions, though, I'm all ears. Or eyes, since I can't really hear your reply. :)
 
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Alright. So! An update. I checked my BIOS version, I updated my sound drivers so many times I was seeing drivers in my sleep. I actually had a nightmare involving a computer blowing up last night......but that's besides the point.

I had tried my speakers as mentioned above, and the static was continuing. So I put my headphones back in, plugged them into the front, back, every possibly jack multiple times, messed with them so much that I actually shorted out my Turtle Beach Headphones. Enter sad face here. :(

Then I decided to Google my issue with a few different keywords and found someone talking about Easytune 6 installed on Gigabyte mobos causing static for them and system instability. They blogged about it. Thinking it couldn't hurt, I exited Easytune 6...and the static stopped. I uninstalled it and rebooted and now the sound is fine, except I have a dead set of expensive(to me) headphones because of all the messing around. Thankfully they're still covered by warranty.

Thanks for your earlier reply. I actually feel as though I learned something, even though it's going to be a pain in the butt to have replacements shipped to me :)

I even have a sound card that's being shipped out to me because I ordered it before i found the issue. Ah well. Can't hurt!

Have a nice day... I hope this helps someone else who's as frustrated as I was.



 
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Ahh, sorry about not replying. Must have lost the notification.

Good to hear that it was a relatively easy fix, though some dead headphones in the process isnt good. If your handy with a soldering iron, you might want to bust open the inline volume control and see if its anything in there thats broken. I'v had wires break off soldering points inside there before, and a quick solder fixed it for a few months until the whole thing just died.

A sound card was basically what I was going to recommend you get, provided it had a headphone amp built in. I found that with my Razer Carcharias headset that plugging in to integrated sound caused a static noise when I turned up the volume, must be because the power the headphones were receiving wasnt enough to drive that volume. Later when I got a sound card with a headphone amp, issue cleared up and now they can go loud enough to hear across the room.
 
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