Idonno said:
Ok, sorry I was confused I thought you had already RMA'd the card. Do you still have another on hand?
Card Zero, Patient Zero, what have you, I used on my x67 chipset Core II Quad machine till I upgraded to a Socket 2011 x79 chipset last year; I had no problems with it in the X67 chipset board.
I had some trouble with the neighbors, and had to use a headset for a while - using various 7.1 usb headsets since they stopped making the previous analog input headsets I loved [The Speedlink Medusas stopped importing to the US]
Card Zero was donated to a friend who fried his onboard and Fatality during the time. I thought the Logitech G930s and Plantronic Gamecon 780s had great quality audio, but there was that gap between when I had my Medusas and when I got the Tiamat 7.1's.
So, Card Zero still lives, to this day, on my friend's machine, running a x79 chipset 3930k ... That was actually my CPU and Ram until a week ago. We did a lan party post-upgrade and traded sound cards, no effect.
I got myself Card A, and found the buzzing to be driving me up the walls.
I RMA'd card A. Card A is not my problem. Card B is in the system. [Card Zero, Card A and B are all HT Omega e-Claro]
Last week I bumped up to an MSI Z87 Xpower with a 4770k. Kept the 32 gigs of the GSkill. I also replaced my power supply with a 1300w EVGA that was recommended by a tuner-builder friend of mine.
For smiles & grins I put a fresh install of win 8.1 on.
The buzzing is there, but fainter.
Idonno said:
Anyway regardless have you tried disabling your video cards audio in device manager. I disable my onboard sound in bios and both of my video cards audio in device manager. there's less chance for conflicts that way.
Tried that, the sound is there, but again it's arguably less noisy. Still noisy enough that when it's not there... the silence 'becomes loud' ... Like if you lived with the air conditioner in your room all your life then you suddenly turn it off.
Idonno said:
You can also try "driver sweeper". Completely sweep all sound drivers and then re-install your eClaro drivers. I would try it in reg mode first then safe mode if that doesn't work.
Idonno said:
I have had them conflict with video drivers and even Epson printer drivers, so to minimize any conflicts I try to install sound card drivers before as many other drivers as possible.
I'm totally with you on this one; that's why when I re-installed Win 8.1 I put on only the things that I have on the system. I'm using my laptop for all things related to printing [yay, network printer drivers] and the other laptop is now the Win2012/WSUS server so this machine has two functions; game, and game harder. Well, I'll eventually get around to re installing JDK + Netbeans and getting back to programming 'with the big system' but my Laptop can drive 2 monitors from it's dock, so it's doing that job now.
I tell you though; the difference between hearing a Logitech G930, Onboard Audio [the new mb has a Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3] compared to the HT Omega...
It's like listening to a blu-ray player through a pair of ipod headphones, then you switch to the HT Omega and voia, your BOSE is back.