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Audio making a weird sound!

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Folks, I'm trying to square away an older socket 7 MoBo with integrated audio. Before I dropped off the computer to the customer the audio worked fine. Now they have attempted to install a modem, unsucessfully and now if you turn up the volume it sounds like a helicopter. Any ideas where I might go first for a resolution to this?😕 I forgot to add that it shows no conficts regarding any audio component and it's an Opti sound chip and also shows up a Sound Blaster 16 in device manager, as well as the Opti chip showing.
 
Have you tried moving the computer to another location? I've heard that electrical interference can cause those helicopter noises at high volumes. Also, do you mean turn the volume up on the physical speakers or in windows? And is it turning it up to an extreme or just moderately? If it's to the MAX, then it's normal to have helicoptor sounds in most places. Try moving the computer and speakers to another location and see if that works first, though...If not, I have no idea :-/
 
The helicopter sounds come in at all volume levels. I'm almost ready to disable the onboard audio and install a sound card. For some reason I seem to remember running into this before but I can't for the life of me, remember how I fixed it and what caused the problem.
 

anytime I had this problem (stuttering audio) it was an IRQ conflict... some sound cards/chips don't take kindly to sharing irqs even though windows says there isn't a conflict.

maybe pull some cards temporarily or shutdown your ports in bios to free up a few irqs and get windows to move stuff around




 
WW, if you restart the system and don't try to acces any of the other drives all is well. As soon as i try to acess the CD-Rom (D:\ drive) or even the C:\ drive it starts up. Do you think disabling the onboard audio and installing a separate sound card might help? That's my next option.
 
disable com2 in the bios, they have pissed off an irq when they tried to put the modem in, that should free up an irq and always helps with modem installs
 
Originally posted by: 2336
WW, if you restart the system and don't try to acces any of the other drives all is well. As soon as i try to acess the CD-Rom (D:\ drive) or even the C:\ drive it starts up. Do you think disabling the onboard audio and installing a separate sound card might help? That's my next option.
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sounds like it is sharing resources with the IDE controller (irq 14 or 15 probably)....or a dma or i/o somewhere...

see what resources the sound chip and ide controllers are using in the device manager.

a separate sound card would probably solve the problem, but I think you can make the onboard audio behave (unless it really is fried 🙂 )

 
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