Problem with sound card, need help!

[pzs22]

Hopefully someone has SOME idea of what is going on here. Recently any bass I get sounds extremly staticy, its unbearable. I get this when I have my promedia 5.1's plugged in or head phones. I am thinking it is most like a sound card issue? I have an audigy 2 zs and its pretty new. When the speakers are plugged in it sounds like what you would get if you had blown speakers. And the channels seemed to hiss (yes, i have them plugged in right, when I run a noise test they all work). I plugged in head phones (to the sound card itself) and have the same thing, where there would be sub there is a "blown speaker" sound. Has anyone ever heard of this?

What I have done so far:
Unplugged the soundcard, cleaned all of the inputs and the motherboard, replugged the soundcard in.
Uninstalled/reinstalled the card.
Updated drivers to newest version.
Check all connection on speakers and the card.

I can not find the problem. Any suggestions? Has anyone had anything like this happen to them? If so, how did you fix it??

Thanks.

[adjackson39]

Hey pzs22,

There are a few things that I would try to get the problem taken care of, however, it looks that you have done most of them. The only thing that I can reccomend is actually moving the card within the PC. It is possible to get interferance from the other components in the computer and that might be the source of the hiss. You should also make sure that you have the most up-to-date drivers for the motherboard.

Good Luck,

Anthony

[ghost2003]

I doubt this is your problem since it does it with headphones too but have you made sure that there is no EMI?

[pzs22]

Is EMI Magnetic interference? If so, I have had the speakers in the same spot for over a year with a Live 5.1 card. Updated to the Audigy about 4 mths ago, and now this started to happen.

[mmmic]

I had a similar problem and here's what I found. If I ran the music via Window Media Player there would be distortion at some frequencies (not at all frequencies but consistently at the same notes when I replayed the music.) As a matter of fact I bought a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card thinking that the problem was my Turtle Beach sound card. There were no changes with the sound card change. Later, I discovered if I played the music from my Roxio music player the distortion was gone. Are you playing using Windows Media Player? If so try some other player.

[tyrantfour]

im getting this same distortion with my card...its the second time this happened to me. i fixed it once before but now im having a difficult time trying to do it again. the sound is very odd though. when i play audio in WMP on the now playing tab, the music is fine, sounds clear. but if i go to another tab or minimize WMP the sound instantly becomes extremely statically and slow sounding, like a fraction of the required tempo of the song. but i get distortion sometimes during startup, but not often. so far as i can tell every sound the comes out of my computer is ugly. can someone help!