Hi Guys, I just joined the Forums. I Live in USA but I couldn't find a Gigabyte forum in USA so I joined this one.
I have the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (rev. 1.0) I owned this Mobo for about 3 months. I got it from Newegg an online store here in the US. Its a good board all around, however I have being having really bad audio issues with it. I noticed many people on the reviews on Newegg also have had the same issue.
The problem is that I will be watching Youtube, or playing a Game, for example Rainbow Six Siege or any game, and suddenly the Audio gets extremely distorted and you can no longer hear normal sounds, everything has a metal sound to it and its extremely distorted.
I have updated the Audio drivers from the Gigabyte website but it didn't fix the problem. In fact it may them worse. The audio crash happens about 1 or 2 times a day, and about 3 times a week. The only way I found to fix it its to restart the Computer.
I am using the default (Updated of course) Sound Blaster Recond 3Di software. I noticed another small issue that also required me to restart my Computer to fix it and that's when the Sound control on the bottom right corner where the Time and date is (Windows 7 by the way 64-bit) stops responding. All the way up or all the way down, nothing responds, however mute does work for both of these issues.
Does anyone have the same issue and has some solutions that they can share with me? I would appreciate it.
Thanks Guys.