speaker distortion

[hemphrey]

Athlon XP 2100+
Gigabyte 7VRX motherboard
512MB PC2700 DDR
Sound Blaster Audigy

My old ASUS A7v333 motherboard died. I installed the gigabyte, reformatted the HDD and reinstalled XP.

My computer now has the following problems:

1)I hear rhythmic chirpy distortions through the speakers. About every second the sound, if there is any playing, will crackle a bit. This seems to be related to the hard drive, as an increase in activity makes the sound duration and intensity stronger.

2)Hardly any software will install. Not only random game crashes but most files I download (including all the ones recommended to fix my problems (new south bridge drivers, bios updates, etc)) can't even unzip without some error coming up in the middle of the process. Yes I realize this is the hardware forum... sorry.

3)The system will sometimes restart. For no reason. I'll be minding my casual business and it the screen goes black and it reboots. Maybe the motherboard is resetting itself? I used to have a problem with it shorting due to the contacts in the case but I fixed that.

Any help, related to any or all of these posts, is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Jeremy

 

[ai42]

Sounds like perhaps a power supply issue and or improperty grounded computer.

 

[hemphrey]

PSU is 350watts of Enermax goodness. How would I more properly ground the CPU?

 

[ai42]

Well if you have a voltmeter use the continunity test and tap one probe to the case (assuming it is metal) and the other probe to the power plug specifically the third prong the large one that at the bottom. If it gives contininuity your property grounded.

 

[boyRacer]

It's the Audigy's fault! 😀... jk... actually i don't know... my brother had an Aureal SQ2500 and had the same problems... took that out and put an Audigy in and the problems went away... 😕