Short Buzzing Sound Accompanied by Slowdown Every 45 Minutes to Couple of Hours

[King Cronecker]

I have recently put together a PC. During video playback, video games, and music an infrequent and short but extremely annoying buzzing will occur accompanied by slowdown. It will happen at least once an hour, give or take. This point in the video demonstrates it quite well.

It's a bit more staggard and shorter when it happens to my PC. Sometimes it will happen in both channels, others in one then the other and then somethimes it wil start in one and end in the other, never lasting more than a second. It doesn't seem to occur when I don't have any audio. That's not to say it's not happening, of course. I have a monitor and two TVs hooked up to my GPU. This issue happens across all of them. I'm not sure if the slowdown happens everytime, either.

I have completed this list of suggestions on the advice of a Microsoft advisor with no luck.

1. Run system file checker from Start > Command prompt > Type and enter: sfc /scannow
2. Run DISM, type and enter in command prompt: DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
3. Run check disk, type and enter: chkdsk c: /f /r
4. Ensure that your graphics and audio drivers are updated, check the manufacturer's site and do not relay on "search for automatic updates".
5. Re-seat your RAM.

I've just reinstalled Windows 10 (kept personal files) which, of course, didn't work. I have also replaced the RAM and PSU.

I was told that it could be down to my CPU being too hot. I did a test and it is running at about 33 degrees celsius, which I think is ok.

My latest effort has had my uninstall the Nvidia audio from the Device Manager completely on the advice of someone with a similar issue. Even if this doesn't work it doesn't feel like a long term solution. I may be wrong, though. Despite me restarting the PC over a few times the Nvidia audio has not returned to the device manager's list.

I've read some pretty bleak things about this issue like it's a bug that Microsoft aren't prepared to fix and that people have done far more than me and still had no results. Any help would be much appreciated. Trust me when I say I will be donating generoulsy if this is resloved as a result of visiting this website. Cheers.

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit, Build 18363, Installed 20200128142003.000000+000
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor, AMD64 Family 23 Model 113 Stepping 0, CPU Count: 12
Total Physical RAM: 16 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
Hard Drives: C: 930 GB (829 GB Free); D: 2794 GB (649 GB Free);
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME X470-PRO, ver Rev X.0x, s/n 190144322103977
System: American Megatrends Inc., ver ALASKA - 1072009, s/n System Serial Number
Antivirus: Windows Defender, Enabled and Updated

 

[xrobwx71]

1. Run system file checker from Start > Command prompt > Type and enter: sfc /scannow
2. Run DISM, type and enter in command prompt: DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth What were the results of these scans?
3. Run check disk, type and enter: chkdsk c: /f /r
4. Ensure that your graphics and audio drivers are updated, check the manufacturer's site and do not relay on "search for automatic updates". Maybe try DDU to uninstall the graphics drivers? Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 18.0.2.2
5. Re-seat your RAM.

I've just reinstalled Windows 10 (kept personal files) which, of course, didn't work. I have also replaced the RAM and PSU.

I was told that it could be down to my CPU being too hot. I did a test and it is running at about 33 degrees celsius, which I think is ok. This is fine.

My latest effort has had my uninstall the Nvidia audio from the Device Manager completely on the advice of someone with a similar issue. Even if this doesn't work it doesn't feel like a long term solution. I may be wrong, though. Despite me restarting the PC over a few times the Nvidia audio has not returned to the device manager's list. It won't return until you update the drivers again. When you do, choose custom install and only install the physX and Graphics driver.

I've read some pretty bleak things about this issue like it's a bug that Microsoft aren't prepared to fix and that people have done far more than me and still had no results. Any help would be much appreciated. Trust me when I say I will be donating generoulsy if this is resloved as a result of visiting this website. Cheers You'll always find someone on the internet blaming Microsoft and in most cases, it's simply not true.

I experienced this on a previous gaming computer of mine. It turned out to be simple lag caused by a program I used to watch my wireless internet to make sure no one was piggybacking onto my signal. When it would scan my network, it would crunch resources for a few seconds causing that "lag" in the form of monetary slowdown and grind sound exactly as it is in the video. I simply turned it off when gaming or watching vids.

If you have anything running in the background that may be scanning or calling out to the internet at intervals, it is probably the culprit as you've covered most everything else yourself.

 

[King Cronecker]

I experienced this on a previous gaming computer of mine. It turned out to be simple lag caused by a program I used to watch my wireless internet to make sure no one was piggybacking onto my signal. When it would scan my network, it would crunch resources for a few seconds causing that "lag" in the form of monetary slowdown and grind sound exactly as it is in the video. I simply turned it off when gaming or watching vids.

If you have anything running in the background that may be scanning or calling out to the internet at intervals, it is probably the culprit as you've covered most everything else yourself.

1 - System File Checker Results

2 - DISM Results

3 - Run check disk, type and enter: chkdsk c: /f /r - Did not present any results after boot

In the description, the DDU website said that you run a risk attempting to use this software if you are running a version of Windows about 1903. I am running 1009. Is it wise to proceed with this action?

I did as you said regarding the custom install of the Nvidia drivers, however, the Nvidia High Definition Audio only returned after I did an installation of the graphics drivers and the audio drivers on their own. I can imagine there is some scapegoating of Microsoft out there. I can’t see any kind of software that you described in my apps list. I have gone through my list of processes and I can’t see anything. Obviously at least. I am a bit green when it comes to stuff like this sometimes. I’ve heard from some people it may be due to a USB device. I’m not sure how likely that is. It’s frustrating as it can not happen for hours at a time so I’m always tense about its return. I’m not sure when it will be sensible to start considering swapping out hardware to see if that’s the culprit and if I do have to what to start off removing. I don't think it's the RAM or the PSU as I have changed them recently, unrelated to this issue. Thanks so much for your advice. It’s much appreciated.

 

[xrobwx71]

This may give you some insight. Open an elevated (as admin) Powershell. Paste this into it, it should append and output, if not hit enter. It will open a notepad with the data in it. It shows processes and cpu usage. If you see anything exceptionally high, look further into it.

Get-Process | Sort CPU -descending | Select -first 40 -Property ID,ProcessName,CPU | format-table |out-file $home\cpu.txt
notepad $home\cpu.txt

credit to @Jenae for script

Also, open an elevated command prompt. Copy and paste this into it and hit enter. schtasks /query >c:\tasks.txt > 0 & notepad 0
It will show any scheduled tasks which could cause your issue when they kick in.

also credit to @Jenae

 

[King Cronecker]

This may give you some insight. Open an elevated (as admin) Powershell. Paste this into it, it should append and output, if not hit enter. It will open a notepad with the data in it. It shows processes and cpu usage. If you see anything exceptionally high, look further into it.

Get-Process | Sort CPU -descending | Select -first 40 -Property ID,ProcessName,CPU | format-table |out-file $home\cpu.txt
notepad $home\cpu.txt

credit to @Jenae for script

Also, open an elevated command prompt. Copy and paste this into it and hit enter. schtasks /query >c:\tasks.txt > 0 & notepad 0
It will show any scheduled tasks which could cause your issue when they kick in.

also credit to @Jenae

Thanks a lot. I'll have a look into what that shows.

 

[xrobwx71]

You can install Glasswire as well to monitor internet bandwidth spikes and see if it coincides with your symptoms. You can uninstall when you finish your investigations if you wish.