Sound card/Audio problems

[Celeron_Phreak]

I've always had problems with my audio since I upgraded to my Celeron Socket 370 board way back when. First it all strarted with audio breaking up at the begining of the Quake III intro, and eventually going out completely, but coming back when playing the game. Then I'd play some DivX/MPEG videos and it'd have LOTS of static in the audio.

So I upgraded to my AMD Athlon 1100, it got rid of the Quake III intro problem, but I still have static problems in DivX videos. So I looked at my IRQs for my sound card. Apparently bill gates wants to be an inventor, by giving my sound card, network card and video card the following IRQs:

Network: IRQ 19
Sound: IRQ 17
Video: IRQ 16

When I go into the device manager to see what "computer" I'm using, it says "ACPI Uniprocessor PC". I considered changing it to Standard PC, but when I did that on my dad's computer, it made his mouse stop working. Any ideas? I'm really getting desprate here =\.

~C.P.

 

[Celeron_Phreak]

Hmm. I played an MPEG music video on this 1100 and it was really staticy, played it on the Celeron and it works fine. Odd.

 

[jrbob]

Could you post your sound card and OS for us?

 

[Th0r]

Maybe update the drivers aswell????

 

[jrbob]

That is what I was thinking.

 

[Celeron_Phreak]

Sorry about that. It's a CompUSA 5.1 Surround card, and uses the CMI8738/C3DX PCI drivers by default of Windows XP. Both the Athlon and the Celeron are running Windows XP. The stupid thing is that when I was using the card that the Celeron is using, in the same motherboard, I had problems with it. And now, out of the blue, it works fine. I'm afraid to put it in this comptuer now =\.

 

[N-Bandit]

I think new drivers are in order. granted it is nice for XP to have drivers for darn near everything, (except my components....), but it is still good to have the most current ones. when was your XP programed? couple years ago? bet there are new drivers out there don t you think?

Mike

 

[Celeron_Phreak]

I'll try updateing the drivers tonight when I get home from work (three hours from now ). The card might have come with a driver that might be better, but I don't remember. I'll let you all know tonight.

 

[N-Bandit]

we will be waiting.

Mike

 

[Celeron_Phreak]

Well I tried seven differant drivers, each being more updated than the other. Up to April of 2003, this year of coarse. Still is acting up, any other ideas?

 

[redduc900]

I would suggest checking the Windows Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) to see if your sound card is supported...

Windows Logo Program for Hardware

Also, a few questions about your system...
1. What make and model of MB do you have installed?
2. If the board is an NF2, and it has onboard Soundstorm, is it disabled in the BIOS?
3. You mentioned you're running XP...it that with SP1/SP1a installed?
4. Version of DirectX installed...v9.0b is the latest.
5. Have you installed all the critical updates called out by Windows Update, including any recommended driver update for your card?

When I go into the device manager to see what "computer" I'm using, it says "ACPI Uniprocessor PC". I considered changing it to Standard PC

As an example, "ACPI Uniprocessor PC" is the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that's normally installed when running an NF2 board with "Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controllers" (APIC) enabled in the BIOS. Afa the IRQ assignments you mentioned...

Apparently bill gates wants to be an inventor, by giving my sound card, network card and video card the following IRQs:

Network: IRQ 19
Sound: IRQ 17
Video: IRQ 16

...those look to be satisfactory considering the fact that APIC allows for 23 available IRQ's. If you change the HAL to say "Advanced Configuration Power Interface" (ACPI), and then disable APIC in the BIOS...chances are you won't make it back to the desktop without running into a BSOD, or Windows locking up (this also applies to the "Standard PC" HAL). If you do make it to the desktop without problems, you'll only have 15 IRQ's available...and IRQ sharing will be worse (if it really is a problem) than what it is now.

 

[Celeron_Phreak]

1. I'm using an MSI K7T Turbo 2 board.
2. I do have onboard sound and modem disabled
3. I don't install the service packs, they alwasy slow the system down
4. I'm using DirectX 9.0b
5. As I said, I don't install updates ; I haven't heard or seen of any updates for my sound card.

 

[redduc900]

I don't install the service packs, they always slow the system down

IMHO, I think you're making a big mistake not installing SP1/SP1a and all the critical updates called out by Windows Update for your particular system...just my opinion, for what it's worth. More times than not, after a user installs a service pack and/or critical update(s), and experiences a system wide slowdown...it's caused by faulty or failing hardware, incompatible user added software, and/or badly written drivers. Sometimes there is a bug (or bugs) in a released SP or update package, which MS is normally pretty quick about getting fixed ASAP...then releasing an updated version of the software, and posting it on the WU site.