Static coming from speakers / headphones

[CU]

I was playing XCOM yesterday and went to do something, when I came back there was static coming from my headphones. I can hear the static slightly when using the speakers, but it is really loud in the headphones. I have an Xonar DG and SuperLux HD 668B headphones. I have tried multiple headphones connect through my speakers and directly connect to the headphone port on the back of the card. What is also weird is I can hear it when the headphones are connect to back port and switch the sound card to use the front port. I would think I would hear dead silence, but I don't. I have also rebooted my computer. It is a buzzing sound with scratching sounds on top of the constant buzz if it matters. Any suggestions? Did the card die?

 

[wtfcowisown]

Hopefully it isn't dying

 

[CU]

Plugged everything up to my on board and it works. So, it isn't coming from noise in the lines outside the case. May try moving the card to another slot tomorrow if I get a chance.

 

[mfenn]

If you didn't change anything before the noise started, I would guess it is a fault on the card, especially since the onboard doesn't have the same problem. Perhaps a capacitor on the sound card is going bad and not filtering properly anymore.