This is holding up production so bad at this point i'm not even sure what to do. I had another digi002 shipped from another one of my studios, and i plugged it in and of course, there was the sound.

the only thing i can do without the buzz is use the alt src to input sound from my other soundcard and route them into my monitors. I'm tired of not being able to use my hardware or even my software because of this stupid little sound. i also think that it isnt the device 'overloading' the cpu and making it whine, because it happens during events that don't appear to make the cpu use any more, ie: turning on a midi input. i took all the fans off and cleaned them of any dust. it doesnt sound like a sound that a processor should be able to make, it's like an high pitch sine-wave electronic frequency sound. I used a long think hose to try to pinpoint the sound and i believe it is coming from the processor itself.

but i still do not know what is going on. So far I have eliminated as being the problem:

Computer high pitched whine