When I listen to music on my headphones or regular speakers (both connected to the audio jack on the IO port) - I hear these weird interruptions, like a skipping sound when a CD bumps, or a short noise you hear when you're connecting speakers to something.
After some investigating, I have discovered the source of the interruptions: opening up the Sound settings in Ubuntu shows that my computer detects headphones (this is just what the software calls it) connecting at random times on the front panel, and then disconnecting the next instant - which causes the weird noises. This happens mostly irregularly - I've tried messing with the parts (shaking them a bit etc).
It even happens when there's no music playing, when it's mute, or when there's nothing conected - but I think that it's much more frequent when there's music playing. Additionally, I cannot hear the effect in Windows - but I'm rather sure that it's a hardware problem, rather than anything specific to Ubuntu, because just because I cannot hear it in Windows does not mean it's not there (Windows sound infrastructure is very different than in Linux).
The effect doesn't happen, however, when the headphones or speakers are connected in the front panel - which is what the software detects as randomly connecting when nothing is connected to it.
I was messing around with overclocking and various other settings in the BIOS. However I had returned them to Optimized Defaults in order to test this - and the effect is still there.
What could be causing this? Is my mobo fried? What can I do to correct this?
Hardware information:
Motherboard: M5A97 EVO R2.0
Processor: AMD FX-8320
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7 (dual boot)
Case: Zalman Z11 (could be shorting something?)
(Accidentally posted this in the Linux forum, please remove that thread.)
After some investigating, I have discovered the source of the interruptions: opening up the Sound settings in Ubuntu shows that my computer detects headphones (this is just what the software calls it) connecting at random times on the front panel, and then disconnecting the next instant - which causes the weird noises. This happens mostly irregularly - I've tried messing with the parts (shaking them a bit etc).
It even happens when there's no music playing, when it's mute, or when there's nothing conected - but I think that it's much more frequent when there's music playing. Additionally, I cannot hear the effect in Windows - but I'm rather sure that it's a hardware problem, rather than anything specific to Ubuntu, because just because I cannot hear it in Windows does not mean it's not there (Windows sound infrastructure is very different than in Linux).
The effect doesn't happen, however, when the headphones or speakers are connected in the front panel - which is what the software detects as randomly connecting when nothing is connected to it.
I was messing around with overclocking and various other settings in the BIOS. However I had returned them to Optimized Defaults in order to test this - and the effect is still there.
What could be causing this? Is my mobo fried? What can I do to correct this?
Hardware information:
Motherboard: M5A97 EVO R2.0
Processor: AMD FX-8320
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7 (dual boot)
Case: Zalman Z11 (could be shorting something?)
(Accidentally posted this in the Linux forum, please remove that thread.)
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