Hello /wsr/, first time poster here for forgive me if I muppet

Are your cables crossing anything unshielded or any other cables? That could be causing interference. do you have a DAC or internal sound card? Or are you plugging your speakers into your motherboard?

Seat your soundcard better if you're using one.

Try plugging your cables into different slots.

>>46674
>Are your cables crossing anything unshielded or any other cables? That could be causing interference.
The cables behind the computer are a spaghetti pile. But it hasn't really been an issue till I moved my computer desk half a foot to the left (after I moved it, i used the comp later that night then found this problem)

>do you have a DAC or internal sound card? Or are you plugging your speakers into your motherboard?

I'm plugging them into the motherboard I guess.

>>46676
>Seat your soundcard better if you're using one.
>Try plugging your cables into different slots.

I've only got one speaker input

>>46704
It might be cables, do you have 3.5mm audio connectors on the front of your PC? can you try plugging your speakers in there?

>>46705
Just tried it in the front 3.5mm headphone jack, didn't work. I am guessing it's not connected in the box.

Is there some diagnostic software I can run? Like hijackthis but for hardware issues instead of malicious registry entries?

>>46708
Yeah your front ports might not be hooked up.
Like I said earlier, I'm pretty sure this is hardware related, so I don't think that there's anything wrong with your machine software-wise, I think it's the sea of cables that your speaker cables are running through, try to clear a path or something or just generally move cables around while listening to things to see if that'll fix it.

>>46713
Just cleaned up my cables and it didn't fix it. It might also be worth mentioning that when music is playing, if I move the mouse it will lag the audio, and if I scroll down while browsing websites it lags the audio even worse. Most likely a motherboard issue maybe? But how to fix?

>>46727
boot linux from flash drive and test audio

but most likely you'll end up needing to buy something, you can get a usb sound card for 2$ off amazon

>>46738
>boot linux from flash drive and test audio

That's a good idea. I've got VMware installed, and a few different OS' on it. I'm wondering if it will work, or will I need to install drivers/codecs on each virtual OS. I don't think I've tried to use sound through my vmware before...

>>46742
I'm pretty sure VMware will still pass through your current OS's audio.

you picked up a bunch of trojan/viruses and its putting a load on your system.

>>46765
>you picked up a bunch of trojan/viruses and its putting a load on your system.
I haven't downloaded anything in quite a while so I don't know how this is possible. Unless you're trying to be funny.

Here's a hijackthis log if it means anything

http://pastebin.com/gS3YzuhB

Bump please