I'm having this weird problem where constant static is emitted from my speakers and headphones. This happens through the front headphone jack on my case, rear audio outs (albeit occasionally), and all usb ports. Playing music or any audio doesn't affect this problem, the static is ever-present regardless of what audio is playing. It only starts making noise once windows boots up, but the audio is completely silent with no buzzing or whatever while the BIOS is starting up.
Oddly, the graphics affect this problem more than anything. Whenever I use Source Filmmaker in particular, the static gets amplified and changes sounds whenever I make an action within the application.
I've already installed all the latest drivers for everything in my pc, but unfortunately that solved nothing.
my desktop:
Running windows 7 64-bit
motherboard - Asus Maximus V Gene
case - raidmax aolus
graphics card - Asus GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
cpu cooler - Antec Kuhler 620
PSU - OCZ ModXstream pro, 700W
CPU - Intel i7 3770K
RAM - Corsair Vengeance, DDR3 1600Mhz (16GB with 4 sticks @ 4GB each)
Additionally - and I don't think this means anything - there's an orange light next to the USB 3 connector near the front of the motherboard that keeps blinking intermittently, and the led error code thing constantly says AO on it. I'm just curious to know why those two things are happening or if they're part of this whole static problem.
here's a video I recorded describing/demonstrating the problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8R_34-wJNI