Is my sound card kaput

[Freddie1980]

Earlier this week while playing AOE2 out of the blue I started hearing a lot of static sound in my headphones. I could still hear the game music and sound still but there was constant background static hiss even when I exited the game or played a music track.

I tried plugging my headphone into the front headphone jack which had the same result, I tired my headphones on another device and it worked fine. I replaced the 6mm to 3.5mm adaptor on my HD515's and that didn't fix the problem either. I could only get clean sound if I used my crappy monitor speakers via a displayport cable.

I'm using my motherboards onboard sound card. Any suggestions? Do I need a new sound card?

 

[AdamScott85]

Could be a driver issue, I would always recommend getting a soundcard as onboard sound isn't the best, but that being said on the newer boards the onboard sound is much improved. I would guess it is driver related your issue.