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Static sound from speakers on GA-MA69G-S3H

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mawaru   01-11-2009 at 08:14:16 AM

I recently installed more RAM and another HD in my box that has a Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H (w/Vista 64bit installed). I noticed that there is static coming from my speakers now. Therefore any music playing comes out as static. I also noticed some static in the screen when my box is shutting down. Has anyone run into this before? Is this it a possible loose connection or something?

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Silver Motherboards badge bilbat   01-11-2009 at 03:54:23 PM

Have you plugged anything new into the AC circuit that serves the room that the PC is located in? Could be line noise leaking through, especially if there's a motor involved...

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mawaru   01-11-2009 at 07:51:30 PM

No, but after checking what I installed. I found that once I removed the 2GB of RAM I added the speakers were static free. It doesn't make any sense to me, but that works so far. Still I have to figure out why adding the extra RAM screwed it up.

Thank you for your suggestion!

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mawaru   01-12-2009 at 04:20:32 AM

The problem is not in the new Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) RAM I installed. I installed it and removing my older RAM and found no problems. Static sound was coming from the speakers only when 4GB of RAM was installed. Any ideas?

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Silver Motherboards badge bilbat   01-12-2009 at 06:12:04 PM

Jeeez! That's REALLY strange... You wanna think adding RAM cures problems, not causes them! Nothing at all comes to mind, but I'll let it mull for a while - sometimes my subconscious comes up with surprise "AhHa's", usually at the oddest times...

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netsprinter   01-27-2009 at 12:37:48 AM

I have the same problem. Adding ram interferes with my sound and my video drivers. Did you ever find a solution?

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mawaru   01-27-2009 at 09:11:58 PM

No, I have not found a solution yet.

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Silver Motherboards badge bilbat   01-31-2009 at 05:44:55 PM

What's running in the background? I run all four OSs: Vista 32 & 64, Xp 32 & 64, and I've noticed oddball problems like this when some (apparently) interrupt-hungry programs run unseen in Vista64; main offenders I've found on my system are: Nero, Corel (piece that came with PaintShop seems to want to monitor I/O continuously), and HWMonitorPro...

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