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Hard Drive noise over Headphones
s3rial one
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This problem has me ready to take an axe to my computer.
My roommate recently got a new HDTV. Since he practically lives in front of the damned thing, now, which is in the living room, right outside my room, I decided to get a pair of headphones for my computer. I figured that would be a step up from my monitor's built-in speakers, plus drown out the TV. I wound up buying the Razer HP-1s.
The problem is that ever since I bought these things, I've begun to notice all sorts of noise from inside my case; particularly the hard drive and the CPU. No amount of volume tweaking fixes the problem. Even with the system volume on mute and the speaker volume turned all the way off, I can still hear it. The only way to stop it is to stop whatever the PC is doing that's using the hard drive.
I've used almost a dozen different revisions of Realtek's drivers (I was using onboard sound), and when that didn't work, I gave up on onboard audio and bought a dedicated sound card: an Asus Xonar DS. While this cut down on the CPU noise, I can still hear the hard drive noise. I'm a little irritated that I just pissed away $50 on a sound card that doesn't solve my problem.
I have no idea what to do at this point.
My roommate recently got a new HDTV. Since he practically lives in front of the damned thing, now, which is in the living room, right outside my room, I decided to get a pair of headphones for my computer. I figured that would be a step up from my monitor's built-in speakers, plus drown out the TV. I wound up buying the Razer HP-1s.
The problem is that ever since I bought these things, I've begun to notice all sorts of noise from inside my case; particularly the hard drive and the CPU. No amount of volume tweaking fixes the problem. Even with the system volume on mute and the speaker volume turned all the way off, I can still hear it. The only way to stop it is to stop whatever the PC is doing that's using the hard drive.
I've used almost a dozen different revisions of Realtek's drivers (I was using onboard sound), and when that didn't work, I gave up on onboard audio and bought a dedicated sound card: an Asus Xonar DS. While this cut down on the CPU noise, I can still hear the hard drive noise. I'm a little irritated that I just pissed away $50 on a sound card that doesn't solve my problem.
I have no idea what to do at this point.
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All I had to do was plug the amp into a powered USB hub. They headphones work flawlessly now.