Hi, i got an Asus P5B-V motherboard, my problem is that i have a constant background noise (i can start to hear it when my speakers are at about 15%), when i turn the speakers/headphones down it goes away (ofcourse), BUT if i turn down the volume in windows it doesnt, unless i mute. In other words if (windows) volume is 0 i can still hear it but if i MUTE it i cant hear it... also, the background noise goes wild when i do something, like open a program or scroll down a page, so i guess its hard disk related... Thanks, CROrens

hi......a lil thing i picked up a long time ago, what slot did you plug in your soundcard to? if not on the very bottom, try there, i once had a sound problem, and a friend told me to drop my soundcard to the bottom, and it fixed the problem, might not be in your case, but never know. Hope it helps.

Thanks, ill try that... will get back to you to let you know if it helped.

I feel kinda dumb now, but my soundcard is integrated to the motherboard, so i cant move it down :D Any other possible solutions?

Do you have the latest sound card driver? lemme know

The best (only!) solution is to buy a Sound Card and install it in a free PCI slot. The on-board sound chip on the m/board is probably a cheap chip, and they can suffer from electrical interference from other m/board components. It is the electrical "noise" generated by your PC's electronics that you are hearing. A PC is a noisy environment, and the sound chip picks up the noise generated by all the components on the m/board. Fitting a PCI card in the PCI slot that is *furthest* away from the power supply unit (which is a major source of noise and interference!) is the only practical way - internally - to isolate the Sound Card from all that PSU-derived electrical "noise".