Would bad RAM cause a soundcard to stop working?

[allthatisman]

I have an X-Fi Xtremegamer... had it for over 2 years, never had an issue with it. Last week Fry's had a sale on Corsair Dominator DDR3 for $99 and I hopped on it to replace the perfectly good XMS that was in there (kinda stupid but whatever...) Old motherboard was an ASUS P755d pro which otherwise was perfect, but when I put the new RAM in the soundcard would stop working as well as the application. I would have to reinstall everything and it would work until I shut down or restarted... put old RAM back in and it did it with that as well I believe. Ran Memtest for 2 full runs and it passed fine, as well as the old RAM.

Swapped to an older P55 motherboard thinkning that maybe it was the board, initially it was fine... 5 days later it just did it again.

We had a power outage this afternoon, and all my bios settings were lost... I also JUST replaced my PSU with a Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875.

Add to the fact that there is capacitor whine one of my components... I think the motherboard... close to where the CPU is. I am at the end of my rope... about to get a f'ing macbook and forget about computers... any thoughts?

p.s. I've had a few glasses of wine, so I appologize how broken up this is...

 

[poohbear]

it seems like u have 3 possible causes, ram, psu, and motherboard. maybe there was a static charge somewhere in there and it messed up ur soundcard? did you change any of the bios settings when installing the new ram? are you overclocking? i'd put bios settings to "optimal" or "default settings" and make sure its not a setting in the bios causing this.

PS if u swapped out 3 components on ur macbook pro, it'd also be susceptible to having similar problems. this isnt unique to PCs.

 

[allthatisman]

Yeah... I did a bit of searching, and I think the problem may be from the sound blaster drivers in the onboard sound... I disabled the inboard in the bios, so I will see if that does the trick.

 

[ModestGamer]

Device manager would have worked to. Its a windows confligration. If you don't want to disable the onboard sound " for whatever reason" try using ASIO4all free. It will fix the windows mixer issues.

 

[bad_monkey]

Yeah... I did a bit of searching, and I think the problem may be from the sound blaster drivers in the onboard sound... I disabled the inboard in the bios, so I will see if that does the trick.

Any luck? I don't have anythign to input but I am curious to see how this is resolved.