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Oddest hardware issue I've ever heard

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January 29, 2012 9:14:41 PM

My cousin loaned me his Creative Fata1ity headset to see how comfortable they are with glasses on (and they are pretty comfy)
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with them plugged into the 3.5mm front audio jack my pc crashes, blue screen and reboots (hardware issue). This happens no more than 10 minutes into anything using sound - like gaming, and is easly duplicatable (just plug them in LoL) I even returned everything back to stock settings.

The fix: switch back to my old Logitech's and no more crashes at all.

I haven't used Creative stuff in many years, not since I found out what lousy customer support they really have but I wouldn't think headphones would/could cause BSoD's ever.

Has anyone else ever ran into this?
All I can think of is there is something in the impedance causing this or somekind of feedback being sent back up the line.

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January 29, 2012 9:38:46 PM

Agree that is odd! They work fine on his computer?
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January 30, 2012 3:23:00 AM

...Odd...since all the headset is doing is receiving an output signal, so no drivers need to be installed or anything.

Question, are you normally running off the front outputs?
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January 30, 2012 3:45:26 AM

that is odd... even with some feedback going on it shouldn't harm anything but your system speakers, and even then if your using headphones... youre not using the speakers. lol
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January 30, 2012 4:46:40 AM

:o  that...lol
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January 30, 2012 6:46:41 AM

I killed an old 865 chipset board plugging in headphones to the front panel audio jack. Static electricity killed it but the Southbridge had known issues with that happening.
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January 30, 2012 8:43:02 AM

Does creative Fata1ity headset have an integrated sound card like the Logitech G35?
If yes, maybe this is the problem..
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January 30, 2012 9:37:51 AM

If not it could be a problem with the Auto Jack detection software some sound cards
have
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January 30, 2012 11:10:14 AM

what resistance are the two sets, are they both 8ohm, or 16 and 8 ohm? if they are different, then the difference could be causing a voltage droop somewhere, but your system would have to be only marginally stable for that to happen. Thats the only mechanism that I can think of. I would have also thought it would be confined to a subsection of the mobo, and not be enough to cause a crash. Have you any OC's on, can you reduce them to test?
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January 30, 2012 11:14:07 AM

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If not it could be a problem with the Auto Jack detection software some sound cards have


Thats about all it could be; the output jacks are just sending a signal over; the headset should have no effect whatsoever.
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February 28, 2012 9:37:31 PM

Best answer selected by popatim.
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February 28, 2012 9:40:00 PM

definitely something to do with the front HD audio jack detection and these headphones. I notice that often it will not show the "You've plugged headphones in" message and I can expect a crash shortly thereafter.
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