Random freezes for less than 1 second with buzzing sound

[Deleted member 187243]

Hello everyone.
For some days now, I'm experiencing weird freezes during video playback (Youtube/Twitch) and gaming. PC just freezes for half a second with a buzzing sound in the headset and continue running after that like nothing happened.

Config details:
R5 2600X @ 3,9 Ghz
MSI B350 Tomahawk
16 GB DDR4 2666 @ 3066 Mhz
SSD M4 Crucial 256 GB (System)
HDD Seagate 450 GB
GTX 1060 6GB
1000W corsair ZSeries PSU
Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro
Ultimate Performance Power Plan

Bios and all drivers are up to date.
Reinstalling display driver did nothing. (Used DDU)
Reinstalling soundcard drivers did nothing. (Normal uninstall + DDU) Re-sitting the card did nothing.
Removing all OC and loading bios defaults did nothing.
Memtest reports no error.
SMART data is GOOD.
CHKDSK reports no error.
SFC /ScanNow told me there was errors and fixed them but didn't fix my issue.
Messed with power plan settings, no result.

My next guess is a problem with SATA drivers but I don't find anything to update on my motherboard manufacturer site or AMD site (except RAID drivers but I don't do RAID).
Can anyone suggest anything?
Thank you very much

 

[Mr.Scott]

Get rid of this first.
Ultimate Performance Power Plan
Anything that software does you can do manually.

 

[Deleted member 187243]

I tried all the different power plans of Windows: Balance, High Performance, Ultimate performance. Nothing fixed my problem. So I came back to the latter.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Any software you use, uses resources. Resources that the rest of your rig could be using. It also introduces potential conflicts into your system.
Windows power plan set to high performance is all you need.
Not saying that is your problem, because it probably isn't.
Problem is a driver conflict.
Probably do to your sound card. Creative is notorious for it.
Remove sound card and drivers from your system and try it.

 

[Deleted member 187243]

Thanks for the advice. I'll try the soundcard trick tomorrow.
By the way Ultimate performance is a part of defaults windows powerplans, you just have to activate it via command line. No additional software here.

 

[Mr.Scott]

I'm sorry. I totally interpreted that as something else. Auslogics makes a Boost program that has Ultimate Power Plan incorporated into it.
I mistakenly assumed that was what you were talking about.

Anyhow, the sound card thing is valid. Let us know how you make out.

 

[Deleted member 187243]

I have removed the soundcard entirely, uninstalled the drivers.
Reactivated HD audio controller in BIOS and installed latest drivers for it + Nahimic 2 (as recommended by the manufacturer site).
I'll comment back tomorrow to tell you if the issue is gone or not.
Thanks.

Back this morning, played some videos (Netflix, Youtube) and to my greatest sadness the issue is still there.

Update 1
Got back with an idea, even if I don't even know if I'm searching in the good direction.
In order to get rid of possible driver issues, I dumped completely Realtek stuff and decided to go with stock Microsoft driver as I found online that W10 has a great (better maintained) universal HD audio driver for Realtek stuff apparently. Currently testing...

Update 2
Test failed. Issue is still here. I'm running out of ideas.

 

[Deleted member 187243]

Update 3
Re sit the graphic card + dry air treatment. Changed 6 pin connector from psu.
Currently testing...

 

[Ebo]

I had same problem with my system yesterday, but I never found out what caused it and today everything is working like normal.

 

[Deleted member 187243]

I had same problem with my system yesterday, but I never found out what caused it and today everything is working like normal.

At first I was afraid of a PSU issue, but I think that after a stress test of the whole system I would face a more dramatic outcome than some freeze and buzz in the headset. I really don't know from what it is originating from.

 

[Ebo]

I tried yesterday, to put on momentum cache for my main SSD, and after I turned that off again, problem went away.

 

[Deleted member 187243]

M4 is not supported for momentum cache. So can't do this trick.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Is the memory you are using on the QVL list? I built a machine 2600 for someone and their build ended up being delayed by about two months because I had to work through so many possible compatibility issues and a lot of it went away when I bought ram off the QVL list.

 

[LiveOrDie]

Its your memory overclock most likely not 100% stable

 

[Deleted member 187243]

Is the memory you are using on the QVL list? I built a machine 2600 for someone and their build ended up being delayed by about two months because I had to work through so many possible compatibility issues and a lot of it went away when I bought ram off the QVL list.

Ram worked for a year now without problem so I don't think compatibility is the problem.

Its your memory overclock most likely not 100% stable

I tried removing all overclock, it didn't solve the problem. I did a memtest at 2666 and 3066 and no errors were reported. I guess I can retry it sure. Will put them on XMP for a while. But I already did it and the problem stayed the same. Reporting back if the issue persist.
Testing...

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Reminds me of an issue I had with an unlocked Phenom 2 x2 565... I unlocked it to a x4 but I got a buzzing/ringing... Anyways I fixed it by reducing the CPU from 3.4ghz to 3.1ghz.
Try running at stock.. CPU/memory
Then try reducing speed

Any performance issues other than the sound?

 

[Deleted member 187243]

Reminds me of an issue I had with an unlocked Phenom 2 x2 565... I unlocked it to a x4 but I got a buzzing/ringing... Anyways I fixed it by reducing the CPU from 3.4ghz to 3.1ghz.
Try running at stock.. CPU/memory
Then try reducing speed

Already loaded optimized defaults, retested it and issue was still there.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Already loaded optimized defaults, retested it and issue was still there.

This is a long shot but go into DEVICE MANAGER and try manually updating drivers by RIGHT clicking each device and then Updating the driver's.

 

[vega22]

Try older GPU drivers if you're using GPU acceleration on the videos?

 

[Deleted member 187243]

So far re-sitting the GPU seems to have done the trick... Thanks for all the suggestions. I keep this on overwatch just in case.
Thank you very much.

 

[eidairaman1]

Reminds me of an issue I had with an unlocked Phenom 2 x2 565... I unlocked it to a x4 but I got a buzzing/ringing... Anyways I fixed it by reducing the CPU from 3.4ghz to 3.1ghz.
Try running at stock.. CPU/memory
Then try reducing speed

Any performance issues other than the sound?

enable spread spectrum for interference

 

[LiveOrDie]

Ram worked for a year now without problem so I don't think compatibility is the problem.



I tried removing all overclock, it didn't solve the problem. I did a memtest at 2666 and 3066 and no errors were reported. I guess I can retry it sure. Will put them on XMP for a while. But I already did it and the problem stayed the same. Reporting back if the issue persist.
Testing...

Did you complete the memory test as a memory test with 16gb would take longer than a day also try using memtest from TPU run a group of them.

 

[Deleted member 187243]

Did you complete the memory test as a memory test with 16gb would take longer than a day also try using memtest from TPU run a group of them.

I did before starting the thread. I ran Memtest86. No errors.
Will do some loops with MemTest64 from TPU, just for good measure.

Edit:
Did 300 loops of Memtest 64 without any error
And the issue is still here...
I think I will downgrade the gpu drivers. I should have done it right away.

Edit2:
Downgrading the drivers didn't help. At this point I have reseted everything to stock clocks (optimized defaults). Still having the issue. Tried to update all the peripherals, windows always saying everything is up-to-date.

 

[LiveOrDie]

It could be related to your audio controller or even your GPU memory i would test both, disable your audio controller and set it to your HDMI output.

 

[Deleted member 187243]

Thanks for the suggestions.
I think that audio controller is out of the equation since I had the same issue with the pci-e souncard aswell as with the onboard audio chip. Concerning GPU memory, what tool can I use? Unigine benchmarks?