Asus P8Z68-V Gen3 causing speakers popping problem

[Dave3000]

I recently replaced my motherboard from an Intel DP67BG to an Asus P8Z68-V Gen3. One problem I noticed is that in the Windows 7 starting screen, my speakers will pop for a second, and this pop is just before the Windows 7 default done loading sound. There is no audio popping during audio playback. I'm using Creative T20 Series II speakers. This popping when Windows starts loading didn't happen on my previous motherboard. Is this just a bug in the motherboard's onboard audio drivers or does my motherboard have a defective audio chip?

 

[bankster55]

Are you the type person that loads everything from the mobo CD just to be thorough?

Look in Win 7 programs/features and see if any Marvel MSU there?

Go to dev man and disable ALL audio controllers but Realtek and see what happens

Running Realtek R267?

 

[Dave3000]

My motherboard does not have the Marvel SATA controller. I disabled nVidia HD Audio drivers through the Device Manager and only have the Realtek HD Audio enabled. I uninstalled the Bluetooth drivers and the J Micron SATA drivers.

The used the audio driver from the CD. The one at the Asus website is the same version as the one on the CD but I'm going to install the one from the Asus website anyways. I'm also going to install the latest chipset drivers and Rapid Storage SATA drivers from the Asus website.

 

[Dave3000]

Okay, I tried the latest audio drivers from Asus website, the latest Realtek audio drivers from Realtek's website, and I tried headphones as well. Still speakers make a popping sound when loading Windows. Even I tried the MS HD audio driver that comes with Windows 7 and still the same popping during Windows loading. This happens if I start my computer from a power-off state only but does not happen if I reset my computer.

I think something is up with my motherboard, like a defective audio output jack. I think I'm going to return this motherboard and go back to my previous one, besides it was barely faster than my previous board and not noticeable either and the main reason why I upgraded to this board was because I wanted to disable C1E so I can have my CPU running at it's full clocks all the time and my previous board does not have that option in its BIOS.

 

[Mem]

I've same board with no popping,solution is simple ie stick an Asus Xonar DX into your board,better sound and problem solved .

 

[Rvenger]

Yeah, its probably another piece of hardware causing a resource issue with the sound. I used to have some strange glitches with my Asrock 970 Extreme 4 but when I swapped out videocards, it went away. Best advice is to go out and get a low cost Xonar DG.

 

[Dave3000]

Well, today I returned the motherboard. I explained about the speaker popping problem I was having with the board to the CS guy and he seemed to understand that it shouldn't do that. I just got a refund and didn't bother to exchange it for the same board and went back to my Intel DP67BG motherboard as the Asus motherboard only performed like 0-2% faster in benchmarks, not worth wasting my money for that but performance wasn't the reason why I returned it.

 

[fixbsod]

You took the trouble to replace a faster mobo due to an audio popping noise that ONLY occurrs once during bootup?? ....

 

[Rvenger]

You expected the board to be faster as well? The board will only be faster if you overclock the CPU.

 

[Dave3000]

Well my Intel DP67BG does not have the C1E option in the BIOS and I wanted to get a motherboard that I could disable C1E so my CPU does not have to clock down during low loads or idle. I thought that if I could disable C1E and have my CPU run at 3.5GHz all the time that my microstutters would go away in Flight Simulator X. Still got those occasional microsutters in Flight Simulator X and does not run that game any smooher with C1E turned off. Also I got only 1-2% better performance in Flight Simulator X on Asus motherboard, and was able to hit the 3.8GHz single core turbo more often than my DP67BG whereas on my DP67BG I almost never hit 3.8GHz on single threaded benchmarks, for example Cinebench R11.5 single CPU benchmark.

Again, I did not return the board for performance reasons, but the popping speakers or headphones during the Windows loading screen was the "staw that broke the camel's back".

 

[Dave3000]

Forget what I said about the turbo performance of my Intel DP67BG on my previous reply. For some reason, today it's hitting 3.8GHz more often in single threaded apps, about as often as the Asus motherboard I returned.