Okay, so I recently built a new computer, these are the specs:
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black
MSI Biostar TA790GX A2+
BFG GS-550 PSU
MSI Radeon 4850 HD
Antec Three Hundred
Patriot Viper 4GB 1066
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500gb
Windows 7 home premium
When I first built it, I would get feedback through the speakers when moving the mouse. I figured out that was from the grounding of the speakers. So I unplugged the speakers, used headphones and that fixed it.
The REAL problem was that after playing any games (Company of Heroes mostly) for only a few minutes the speakers would screech and the game would crash and I couldn't open ANY games through Steam. A few times I also got graphical artfiacts/ glitches which were fixed through a reboot. After using the headphones instead of speakers both of these issues went away. Or so I thought.
I also ran 3Dmark to see if my GPU was jacked but it seemed to run fine. (I did think I might have saw one glitch but I'm not sure). Also, after all the crashes I checked the GPU temp through ATI's software and the temps were super low.
I don't normally play games for extended periods of time. But the last two times I played Left 4 Dead 2 and Empire Total War for about a hour each, both games had major issues.
L4D2 crashed with a screeching sound through the headphones and there was weird jagged breaking of the images. Temps were fine. I tried restarting multiple games through Steam and they all opened with weird sounds (screeching) and messed up graphics.
Empire Total War didn't crash. But there was screeching and jagged cutting of the image. Windows graphics were also messed up. Mozilla had missing graphics, It also took a long time to open Firefox. The odd thing about Total War messing up was that it was not during a graphics intensive portion of the game. I had played two battles about ten minutes before the issues.
The sound issues are whats tripping me up. The artifacts don't checkerboard or look like a normal fried gpu (as far as I know) and why would the video card make it screech through the speakers?
I am lost, could it be issues with Steam since all of the games run through that program?
I also have an old sound card I could use instead of the mobo sound.
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black
MSI Biostar TA790GX A2+
BFG GS-550 PSU
MSI Radeon 4850 HD
Antec Three Hundred
Patriot Viper 4GB 1066
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500gb
Windows 7 home premium
When I first built it, I would get feedback through the speakers when moving the mouse. I figured out that was from the grounding of the speakers. So I unplugged the speakers, used headphones and that fixed it.
The REAL problem was that after playing any games (Company of Heroes mostly) for only a few minutes the speakers would screech and the game would crash and I couldn't open ANY games through Steam. A few times I also got graphical artfiacts/ glitches which were fixed through a reboot. After using the headphones instead of speakers both of these issues went away. Or so I thought.
I also ran 3Dmark to see if my GPU was jacked but it seemed to run fine. (I did think I might have saw one glitch but I'm not sure). Also, after all the crashes I checked the GPU temp through ATI's software and the temps were super low.
I don't normally play games for extended periods of time. But the last two times I played Left 4 Dead 2 and Empire Total War for about a hour each, both games had major issues.
L4D2 crashed with a screeching sound through the headphones and there was weird jagged breaking of the images. Temps were fine. I tried restarting multiple games through Steam and they all opened with weird sounds (screeching) and messed up graphics.
Empire Total War didn't crash. But there was screeching and jagged cutting of the image. Windows graphics were also messed up. Mozilla had missing graphics, It also took a long time to open Firefox. The odd thing about Total War messing up was that it was not during a graphics intensive portion of the game. I had played two battles about ten minutes before the issues.
The sound issues are whats tripping me up. The artifacts don't checkerboard or look like a normal fried gpu (as far as I know) and why would the video card make it screech through the speakers?
I am lost, could it be issues with Steam since all of the games run through that program?
I also have an old sound card I could use instead of the mobo sound.
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