4GB & a Creative Sound Blaster...(Crackle/Popping Issue)

OverClockers:

I don't know if you can help me or not but I'll ask anyways.

This is what I have:

Operating System: Windows Vista x64 Home Premium
Memory: Corsair 4 x 1024 Duel Channel PC-3200 DDR
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Music

When I have 2 GB (2 x 1024 Duel Channel PC-3200 DDR), everything works perfectly (Sound-wize). However, when I add an extra 2GB (4GB in total), I get the crackle/popping issue.

The strange this is when I use onboard sound, I don't get any crackle/popping issues. I would prefer to use my Creative X-Fi over onboard.

Also when I go into my bios and disable S/W Dram over 4G Remapping and disable H/W Dram over 4G Remapping, the sound problem is fixed but Windows only recognizes 3GB of ram instead of the 4GB. And since I paid for 4 sticks, I rather use all 4GB.

I am using the same type of ram (4 x CMX1024-3200C2PT). I am not overclocking anything.

A lot of other people are having similar problems to me:

http://forums.creative.com/creative...essage.id=74182&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

http://forums.creative.com/creative...essage.id=46846&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

http://forums.creative.com/creative...essage.id=88212&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

I contacted Creative and I basically got no answer. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this problem?

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Did you try installing the latest Creative drivers for Vista x64?

http://us.creative.com/support/down...&driverlang=1033&OS=27&drivertype=0&x=40&y=15

I have a friend who had that same problem, but with WinXP x64. I swapped out the card in a different slot and installed the latest drivers. This fixed the popping/static problem.

Try this:

Uninstall the X-Fi's drivers
Put the card in a different slot
Be sure onboard sound is disabled in bios
Re-install the latest drivers ( check link I posted)

Hope this helps.

Welcome...

What type of system do you have? Mobo, CPU, Ram you know the works

Might be a power issue as well it could be a bios issue not having the newest one to work with 4gigs properly which I had an issue with that back a little while ago on my board. I had to wait for a new bios revision to fix it.

deathman20 said:

Welcome...

What type of system do you have? Mobo, CPU, Ram you know the works

Might be a power issue as well it could be a bios issue not having the newest one to work with 4gigs properly which I had an issue with that back a little while ago on my board. I had to wait for a new bios revision to fix it.

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Ahh good point, i forgot about that!

It won't help you but....I had issues with 4GB in XP (non-64), I ended up pulling 2GB out because of the pain, lol. One of the biggest things, COD2 won't work properly with 4GB of RAM....arrrrggggg.

Here are my specs:

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium x64
LG Flatron Slim 19" LCD Monitor
Asus A8N-SLI Motherboard (Bios 1014)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Processor
NVIDIA GeForce7900 GT PCI-Express 256MB Graphics Card
500 Watt Power Supply
4 x 1024 Dual Channel PC-3200 DDR Ram
Pioneer DVD-RW/DVR-111D/CD-ROM-RW
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Soundcard
Creative Megaworks THX 250-D 2.1 Speaker System