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System stutter and audio static

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October 1, 2014 12:55:01 AM

I'm not really sure if this is the right place, but looks like it's an OS issue or tweak...

I'll start with my system...

- Core i5 4670k
- Gigabyte Z97M-D3H
- XFX r9 280x Black Edition 3GB
- 8GB Kingston HyperX 1600 (2x4)
- 120gb SSD Kingston HyperX 3k
- 600w Coolermaster PSU
- Windows 8.1 Pro X64

The Issue...

Today i upgraded my mobo, SSD and processor for the ones listed above, everything else remains the same... What happens is that sometimes, if i compeltely SHUT DOWN the machine, when i turn back on the system boots completely laggy, stuttering and with screeching audio (like a radio station out of tune) when i watch videos or try to load a game.

At the moment im playing wildstar, and when the system boots like this, i barely can login from the client, it takes a huge ammount of time to load and when the game loads it's unplayable, the FPS is below 10....

The thing is, when i REBOOT the system once (sometimes twice) everything is fine... the game loads in record speed, FPS are above 50, reaching 100's and sound is clean....

I looked at the events log when the system boots with this issue and the only thing that shows is a DCOM warning, wich i believe it has nothing to do with hardware or driver issue.

Also, when the system boots with this issue, i monitor HWInfo, CPU-Z and all my sensors and nothing.... everything looks stable on the hardware side, processor is running cold, GPU is @ 50 celcius....

I honestly have no idea, and am completely frustrated by this, anyone have any idea what this coud be? Im going crazy because of this.... I have a feeling the SSD might be deffective, i gotta try doing a clean install on my HDD, i did do atleast 3 clean installs toda on my SSD and nothing....



Thanks in advance

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October 1, 2014 1:09:36 AM

Hmm. Maybe the PSU is going? It could also be the SSD. Only way to tell...is by trying out the HDD I guess.
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October 1, 2014 1:12:31 AM

I would say the SSD would have something to do with it. Since lower capacity SSD's would have less cache, so can be slow

Is the firmware on the SSD up to date? Are you using the windows audio drivers or did you install them from the GB site? Sometimes other audio drivers can be buggy and can do strange things

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October 1, 2014 1:14:54 AM

But can a SSD cause all of this commotion? Could be the PSU, but it's a brand new one, and it was working perfectly with the old mobo and cpu 48 hours ago (no SSD at the time).
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October 1, 2014 1:16:45 AM

Paul NZ said:
I would say the SSD would have something to do with it. Since lower capacity SSD's would have less cache, so can be slow

Is the firmware on the SSD up to date? Are you using the windows audio drivers or did you install them from the GB site? Sometimes other audio drivers can be buggy and can do strange things



Yes, SSD FW is up to date, i also disabled all the onboard features like audio and video, i use an HDMI cable and the audio comes out of the GPU, so i suppose i use the AMD driver for audio.

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October 1, 2014 1:22:36 AM

I would remove that card and try onboard. If it doesnt do the same thing. The card is probably the cause
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October 1, 2014 1:26:29 AM

Paul NZ said:
I would remove that card and try onboard. If it doesnt do the same thing. The card is probably the cause


Im going to try a fresh install on the HDD and disable the SSD first, even tho i still have warranty on both parts, i really, really hope it's the SSD.

I'll stop by in a few minutes with the result
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October 1, 2014 5:39:44 PM

Well... nothing works apperantly...

Had something weird happening tho...

Sometimes on boot, the computer has low performance even on BIOS and on windows installation process... At some point, my mouse pointer looked like it was in the matrix.

But this low FPS while booting and inside the bios page... that i have never seen... What could possibly cause the BIOS to have a framerate drop? Even that bios image that appears on boot shows in slow motion when the computer boots with this issue...

Any ideas?
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