Oh god, the buzzing, please help make it stop

(Not sure where exactly this topic should go, so I put it in here)

So there I was, playing a game and having a grand ol' time popping zombie heads. Once I felt I was satisfied with the level of (digital) brain matter I had displaced from rotting craniums I promptly exited the game.

Then it started.

An extremely loud buzzing noise from my headphones. I tested to see if it kept on going when I played any sort of sound so I kicked up my music player and started blaring metal, it was as if the buzzing had never been there at all, but when I stopped the music it came back.

I have never experienced this before and and am wondering what could be wrong, after all my computer is still functioning perfectly fine and hasn't had this problem for the 8 months I've had it. So I thought I'd come to the people who would know.

Any advice as to how I can get this sound gone would be muchly appreciated!

Does this happen with other speakers plugged in? Are you plugging into the front panel or the motherboard io? Swap them around and see if that helps.

Do the the headphones so this when plugged into something else?

Lots of possible causes for what you are experiencing.

What kind of head phones?  I had this kind of issue with my logitech 930, only solution was to power off the headphone, take out the usb and wait a minute to fix it.

Do you see your OS (or whatever program) emitting sound in the software or not?

Perhaps a dumb question, but it can rule out some stuff.

It's a Siberia v2 headset that I'm using, and they don't use a USB connector, just the 3.5mm jack.

If it is what I think it is, you will have this problem fixed in under one minute. So lets begin!

Go to Control panel > Sound > Properties on "default device" > Go to "Advanced tab" > Change default format to something reasonable that your sound card can handle. In my case it would be 16 bit, 48000 Hz (DVD Quality)

If that doesn't help- re-install audio drivers 

I'll definitely give it a try when I'm home from work and let you know how it goes

How did it go? Did the buzzing stop?

Yea it totally did dude, thanks a bunch.