Ok so first thing first!
I own 4 different Creative sound cards, al suffer from same isseu ONLY on the C6H motherboard!
I have tried all sound cards, on 2 different systems on my current system (with the C6h mobo) suffers from this extremely annoying problem since day 1, i have complained/reported this isseu before and i know i'm not the only one who suffers from it!
Using my current Creative sound blaster Z DTS (same goes for the Crative reacon, XFI gamer, Extreme music cards) is terrible, i use DTS over Toslink (spdif) and it works decent, well the sound sounds like it should bu there are annoying problems!
Isseu 1: "popping/static/high pitch" sound
At random i hear this "popping/static/high pitch" sound (kinda hard to discribe it) when i'm listening/watching what ever!
So let's i'm listining to a Chet baker - almost blue on youtube (or aimp, vlc or what ever player i use) at random i hear this "popping/static/high pitch" sound a random times i hear it like 4 to 6 times during a song which is highly annoying and the sound comes out of 1 random speaker (using 5.1) the best way to discribe the sound is like when you're speakers are on you plug in you're 3.5mm sound cable you hear this static "pop" or when someone plugs i a microphone you hear this "poping sometimes high pinch sound".
This happens with everything i do! watching movies, listening music or playing games, the sound happends at random, so thre is no clear cause for it.
Isseu 2: Sound stops for no good reason DTS get's turned off!
When doing anything sound related, listening music,watching some video's or just simply gaming all sounds stop suddenly at random times for no particulair reason WHEN USING DTS or DD!
On the console of my logitech Z906 speaker set console The DTS decoder light is turned on when i use DTS or DD when the music stops the DTS decider light is off an all music stops (nothing get outputted).
In windows als speaker etc are "set/working" correctly, when i go to Creative z control panel DTS or DD is activated in control panel but DTS does not work!
When open up playback device's the sound card is selected as output system but the sound bar next to it (where the bars will fill up with green bats indicating the level of sound) is not showing any sound is being outputted (while sound is playing).
The solution i found so far that work (and reable my sound) are as follow:
1. reboot pc
Or
2. go to creative console, go to DTS/DD tab When i use DTS (and is selected) is deselect DTS or change from DTS to DD and then renable/re select DTS and all sounds star working again, the DTS decoder Light on my speaker set also turns on again!
These problems only occure when using DTS or DD, when i set the sound on 5.1 (without DTS or DD enabled) all sounds works fine, and there are no isseu's to be found!
Last week after i got sick and tired of the popping sound and random sound outage ruining the latest episode of Games of thrones AGAIN! i was sick and tired and grabed my old pc's an started testing the Creative sound cards, watched a movies listend to Chet baker with DTS enabled and there where no problems!
So i tried out all 3 sound cards i have laying around and all suffer from the except same problems on the C6H mobo, on my other pc's (amd 8350, sabertooth 990fx R2 mobo, and on a Intel I5 with a Asus Z170 PRO GAMING mobo ) there is absolutly no problem to with any of the sounds cards!
Over more then a month ago i have trouble shooted these isseu's with creative they could not help me resolve the problem after extended (and verry good) troubleshooting and help, we where unble to sort out the problem Creative have done absolutely EVERYTHING they could to help me and i have been mailing back and forth with them for more the 3 weeks!
Conclusion, Since on 2 different pc's there are no isseu's to be found, so the sounds cards all work like they should i can only conclude the isseu lie's at the C6H mobo!
I have tried out using the sound cards every PCI slot on the board on the C6H But on al slot's the isseu's occures, also all soundcards are tested on all 2 different pc's
P.s. While tiping this post i was listening to some jazz on Youtube, after i typed the sound above all sound disapeard in the middle of a song....... great......
P.p.S i have reinstalled windows 10 5 times by now and it made NO DIFFERENCE WHAT SO EVER!
Bios 9920.
So far the bios feels stable i have rebooted 5 times with Ram on 3466 and the bios have not rested itself (with 1403 4 out 5 cold boots worked with ram on 3466 on the 5th bios resets itself) so that is clear win 😄
With ram on 3600 cold boot is a no go... i can boot with 3466 and go into bios directly, set ram to 3600 and it will boot, but after i shut down the system or reboot bios will reset itself!