Loud screeching sound and system freezes

Just built this system and twice I have had this issue. It happened once while listening to an audio cd where the computer computer locked totally and had to be reset and once while listening to mp3 in Winamp. The second time it screeched for a few seconds and returned to Winamp but the mouse was frozen and had to be reset. Have not had any issues running other programs or games.
I'm using the Pax v1.10 drivers.

 

Is this screeching sound coming through your speakers or from your hardware

 

Speakers and headphones. Just about blew my ears out wearing headphones

 

As an update,it just made the sound for about 5 secs. then everything returned to normal while listening to internet radio.

 

Hamster died

 

Very helpful. Thanks!

 

Check the event logs, see if there are any entries around the time of the screech

 

These are the 2 entrys in the event logs.

- System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}

EventID 41

Version 2

Level 1

Task 63

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x8000000000000002

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2013-12-17T18:19:41.331213700Z

EventRecordID 25754

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 8

Channel System

Computer Spdracer-PC

- Security

[ UserID] S-1-5-18


- EventData

BugcheckCode 0
BugcheckParameter1 0x0
BugcheckParameter2 0x0
BugcheckParameter3 0x0
BugcheckParameter4 0x0
SleepInProgress false
PowerButtonTimestamp 0


- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />
<EventID>41</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>63</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-12-17T18:19:41.331213700Z" />
<EventRecordID>25754</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Spdracer-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="SleepInProgress">false</Data>
<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

 

Hmm, I had this kind of issue with an old P4 rig back in the days of Battlefield 2. I would get those screeches sometimes with a BSOD or some of the time the game would come back in 5-10 seconds.

I ended up trying so many freaking things to fix it, but what worked was using DPCLAT.exe (http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml) to analyze and find when the spikes would happen and what driver was causing my huge spikes in DPC latency. It took a good amount of time and frustration, but it ended up being my NIC driver. I updated with the latest driver from ASUS's site and it fixed the screeches and the BSOD's.

Now I know this was almost 8 years ago, but the principle may still ring true.

 

Luckily,I'm not getting the bsod. I did not have this issue when I had the Asus Xonar DX installed. It has just begun happening after the X-FI install and it's very sporadic and never in games.

 

Have a look at the reliability monitor too, might shed some light

Start > Run: perfmon /rel

 

Currently running the latency checker and am playing a cd, winamp and internet radio all at once and so far no issue. This is after defrag, ccleaner, clearing prefetch, temp files etc. and running a disc error scan. The latency checker reports

test interval: 100us
current latency: up to 105us
absolute maximum: 417us

Added f1 2013 game and got this message: "Some device drivers on this machine behave bad and may cause dropouts in realtime audio/and or video streams"