I had a custom pc put together by a buddy of mine about 2 years ago and the thing has run pretty great... Until the sound faded out and was barely audible, and slowly went out in to nothing over time.

I thought it was a software problem, tried trouble shooting with no luck. I then replaced the sound card and it worked, for about 10 minutes until it faded out again the same way.

I then thought may be a bad power supply, overloading the sound card, so I replaced the power supply and the sound card again. This seemed to work, for 10 minutes, then the sound faded out and is barely audible.

Any ideas?

1/11/2013 7:05:50 AM

Bad speakers? I have a very hard time thinking it's your sound card if the same problem continued with multiple cards.

Does the PC have onboard audio (almost certainly yes). Try plugging the speakers into that instead and see what happens. Also, try disabling it in BIOS and plug back into your soundcard again if that works without issue. And try another set of speakers if you can.

[Edited on January 11, 2013 at 8:42 AM. Reason : .]

1/11/2013 8:42:22 AM

Well all the cards worked at first, and then after about 10minutes they failed. It seemed like the onboard amp was blown or something.

1/11/2013 5:16:15 PM