(03-13-2014, 03:02 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Check if it's replaceable (the fan). Or just send me pictures of it from multiple angles and I'll tell you. I'm not familiar with recent AMD stock cooler designs.
I suggest a system wipe to rule out software issues. If that doesn't fix it then it's the motherboard keeping the audio and video circuits too close without proper shielding. In which case you might consider an RMA.
In unrelated news my computer has also been acting very strange lately. I won't go through it all since like most of my hardware issues it's a long and strange story filled with lots of debugging work (if you can call it that). Long story short I will probably be RMAing my graphics card soon and living off my HD 4000 IGP for awhile. My entire system would freeze and crash whenever playing a game (sometimes even at the 2D menu screen). I tested this with multiple PC games and it's always the same. Graphics get really fucked up (checkerboard pattern with brightly colored patches speckling randomly and some patches of normality), audio starts looping endlessly, the video and audio freeze, and the entire system becomes unresponsive to any type of input. I got it to recover one time by quickly alt tabbing out of the game. It froze for a few minutes then gave the standard "nvidia display device driver has encountered a problem and has crashed" error message that I was expecting. I logged the GPU stats during one of these events and temperatures and clock rates were all normal. I even cleaned out the gpu cooler and replaced the paste just to be sure. Eventually it started doing it whenever I tried to boot the OS causing it to crash everytime. One time it even did it during POST somehow. By switching to my IGP I can boot again but it's still acting funny sometimes. The monitor flashes for a few seconds when waking up from sleep. And it flashes the entire time during the OS boot until it reaches the desktop screen, where it then goes away. So it could still be the motherboard I suppose. But the graphics card is more likely. I'll test another card to be sure.
It's this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6835103188
I think i'll just buy that fan to be safe.
I could do that but I hardly have any software on there. I only installed windows on it not that long ago. Plus it only started to happen when I moved the PC to a different location. Ultimately I'm going to get a sound card anyway in the next few weeks so it's not that big of a deal.
And after more testing it seems like it's only HD video on youtube that I'm having an issue with, netflix HD is flawless.