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HT Omega e-Claro buzzing under GPU/CPU load

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March 6, 2014 8:58:53 PM

I've got buzzing in my HT Omega eClaro whenever I kick off something that does heavy graphics. For example Heaven Benchmark, or MSI Kombustor. With Kombustor, I see full GPU load on one GPU, and then if I for example drag the window around it becomes more like angry bees buzzing.

System specs:
i7 3930k @ Factory clock setting
MSI Big Bang XPower II running bios rev 2.70
64gb GSkill 2400mhz ddr3
Crucial 256gb SSD
ASUS Geforce 690GTX
Logitech G700s mouse, running in wired mode.
Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2013
Razer Tiamat 7.1 headset with Logitech 580 series speakers on the passthrough.
Silverstone 1500w power supply.

Connected to a UPS.

For a long time I had to use a USB headset after hours (noise curfew) for gaming, so I did not think about giving away my sound card [another HT Omega eClaro ] in April of 2013 when I upgraded to this motherboard/processor/ram combo.

Then a friend gifted me the headset and I plugged it in to the onboard sound, which is a "Soundblaster X-Fi MB2" worked great in 7.1 mode, no buzzing.

Time comes and I want the richness, the clarity, and the crispness of the HT Omega back [I house sat my friend and got to hear the e-claro through the Tiamat headset he got at the same time] and decided to get another e-Claro.

The buzzing noise is present whenever I load the GPU up, it goes away when the GPU is not busy.

I've removed any MSI tweaking utilities for the motherboard and turned off power saving [Advanced - no PCIe power mgmt] and have the whole system running at default bios settings [minus turning off the onboard audio]

I've RMA'd one card back to them two weeks ago, because the HT Omega techs and I couldn't find any solutions...

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May 3, 2014 3:48:20 PM

Is there a question here? Or just a story.
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May 4, 2014 7:52:09 PM

Idonno said:
Is there a question here? Or just a story.


There's a technical problem here. The noise continues.

I've been able to recreate the noise with as little as a slideshow of large images. As long as there's traffic on the PCI-e bus, the noise continues.

It's godawful irritating because I really really enjoy good audio.

So yes, the question is:
"How do I make this stop?"

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May 5, 2014 5:41:24 PM

Ok, sorry I was confused I thought you had already RMA'd the card. Do you still have another on hand?

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.

You may have already done this and it may be a long shot, but it's a good starting point.

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.

As another step if the above doesn't work I would do the same thing but also sweep the video card drivers along with the sound card drivers and then re-install your eClaro drivers first before the video card drivers.

I have found that if any drivers have a chance of conflicting with other drivers the sound card drivers are the most likely to conflict.

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.

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May 7, 2014 1:12:26 PM

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.
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