- Aug 31, 2013
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About a month ago I purchased a Sound Blaster Z audio card in hopes that it would alleviate some of the audio crackling issues I was having with my onboard sound when overclocking my CPU and DDR4.
The sound is great, but now I've been having a problem where randomly the audio will all switch to maybe the right headphone, and then 10 minutes later it will switch to the left side only. I've since set everything to normal settings, no over clocks, and I'm still having the same issue.
If I go to the SBZ Control Panel and switch the audio to speakers and then back to headphones it resets the sound and goes back to normal. Sometimes this even stops windows audio from working and I have to start windows audio back up. I currently have nothing but my Sony MDR-V6 headphones plugged into the sound card.
These problems seem to occur most often (every 5-20 minutes) when I am playing a game and watching/listening to something else on my second monitor.
In game if I am facing some directional audio, I will barely hear anything except for maybe deep bass, but if I turn around the sound will come through the side of the headphone that is currently producing sound.
This is driving me crazy and I don't know where to start.
MOBO: Asus Z170-A
CPU: i5 6600k
RAM: GSKILL TridentZ 16gb DDR4 3200
PSU: Corsair GS 700W v2.3 80PLUS from like 2011
The sound is great, but now I've been having a problem where randomly the audio will all switch to maybe the right headphone, and then 10 minutes later it will switch to the left side only. I've since set everything to normal settings, no over clocks, and I'm still having the same issue.
If I go to the SBZ Control Panel and switch the audio to speakers and then back to headphones it resets the sound and goes back to normal. Sometimes this even stops windows audio from working and I have to start windows audio back up. I currently have nothing but my Sony MDR-V6 headphones plugged into the sound card.
These problems seem to occur most often (every 5-20 minutes) when I am playing a game and watching/listening to something else on my second monitor.
In game if I am facing some directional audio, I will barely hear anything except for maybe deep bass, but if I turn around the sound will come through the side of the headphone that is currently producing sound.
This is driving me crazy and I don't know where to start.
MOBO: Asus Z170-A
CPU: i5 6600k
RAM: GSKILL TridentZ 16gb DDR4 3200
PSU: Corsair GS 700W v2.3 80PLUS from like 2011
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