FSB OC on Abit NF7-S - sound corruption?

[S4M33R]

Bump, I had this problem too but only while I was playing DVDs I'll set my pci latency to 64 right now and try it, thanks guys.

Edit: actually it was when I was playing "The Transporter" avi. But it happened at with other stuff as well...

 

[Megatomic]

How'd it go S4M33R?

 

[S4M33R]

Seems like its working so far I'm not sure what would happen if I pushed my fsb harder, but I'm reluctant to try because this ram is crappy... Hope it works for the rest of you guys.

Edit: I think I heard a pop two seconds ago.. but it seemed a lot less obnoxious... I'll keep updating this if I hear another one.

Edit 2: Its happening again, I think the SB needs heatsinks... Stupid Creative.

 

[Tiamat]

Microchip or some company has a SB heatsink that looks very similar to this Black PII slot heatsink that i have infront of me cut into a 30x60x20 (mm) peice and lapped to a mirror shine. Will this work just as well as the ones you can buy from sidewindercomputers.com? Unfrotunately, it is only 20mm in height, not the 30mm that you can buy...

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

use an old Pentium cooler,i have stacks of them for just such a thing

i highly doubt it will help,but it can never hurt to add extra cooling.

S4M33R, the creative card issues have many causes, i mentioned a few in the very begining. it could be an issue only when you have a large load on your CPU,say, DVD decoding? try different stuff,tinker with it.

 

[Tiamat]

Unfortunately changing my PCI to 64 latency did not solve my problem. Im gonna try to get this box stable at 220fsb


Edit: My 2x512MB Mushkin Level2 PC3500 will not stabilize at FSB220 at any timing, any voltage.
I was reading my MOBO manual and it says that PCI 1 and PCI5 share with the HDD controller. Perhaps this is causing my problem... Im gonna install it on PCI 4 (2nd from bottom) to see if it helps. ...

Edit2: Man, this really blows, Now, with any of the PCI slots at 200x10 I get stupid sound blips! Darn, i shoudda left well enough alone...

 

[Tiamat]

I fixed it i think. My music doesnt crack anymore. However, when i play UT2K4, my sound gurgles whenever i click on a level to select. However, it only gurgles once per level i select. For example, when i select "Onslaught" no gurgle. However, if i select torlan, i get gurgle, if then i select another level, i get gurgle, however when i go back and select torlan again, i dont get gurgle. Same with other level(s).

Basically, it seems my sound gurgles only when the game has to load that levels data into cache or something? (first time i select stage, it takes 3 seconds to open up. After that, it opens up instantly.)

So whats the problem now?

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

UT2004 uses nothing but high quality ogg files for all their sounds,it could be just a caching issue? i honestly have no clue though,thats very strange. seems like its only a problem when it initially reads it off the hard drive and onces its cached into the ram its fine.

i'm clueless

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
UT2004 uses nothing but high quality ogg files for all their sounds,it could be just a caching issue? i honestly have no clue though,thats very strange. seems like its only a problem when it initially reads it off the hard drive and onces its cached into the ram its fine.

i'm clueless

Yeah, they use oggs, so it cant be the sound files fault. Maybe its my DVD player for all i know. Its a Slot Load DVD S106? or soemthing like that. However, its not too bad of a problem since it goes away and doesnt affect game play. thx for your thoughts!

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

doesn't it all get installed to the hard disk though? i remember ut2004 taking A LOT of space to still.

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
doesn't it all get installed to the hard disk though? i remember ut2004 taking A LOT of space to still.

that is true. Perhaps there is not enough bandwidth in my pci bus. However, i have never heard of this problem between a raptor, audigy2zs,radeon8500 and ABIT NF7-S. Soo wierd.

 

[ChowYunFett]

Cheerz,

this might be the right thread to post a question that's really bothering me.

I've got an NF7 and an Audigy 2.

--> Is it possible that I fried my Audigy by an odd FSB (like 150)?

I *have* locked AGP/PCI, that is, set to 66 MHz all the time, never touched that setting.

After a couple of days, my Audigy was toast! :Q (Device Manager detects no soundcard present, plugged the Audigy in another rig, no soundcard present either) How is that possible?

 

[WA261]

cool your SB

I have had a few times when I am running a high OC that my sound will go out and the files are corupt...no biggie, just reinstalled.

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: ChowYunFett
Cheerz,

this might be the right thread to post a question that's really bothering me.

I've got an NF7 and an Audigy 2.

--> Is it possible that I fried my Audigy by an odd FSB (like 150)?

I *have* locked AGP/PCI, that is, set to 66 MHz all the time, never touched that setting.

After a couple of days, my Audigy was toast! :Q (Device Manager detects no soundcard present, plugged the Audigy in another rig, no soundcard present either) How is that possible?

Might be a coincedence. Since you tried it in another box, your audigy might indeed be toast. Can you see any burn marks? Broken capacitors? Im sure you are covered by warantee?

Is there any dust or accumulation on the gold PCI connectors?

 

[ChowYunFett]

Thx :thumbsup:

No burn marks, no broken capacitators, card looks perfectly alright. No accumulation, wiped off some *minor* dust on two of the PCI connectors. Some dust on the back of the card actually.

Might be a coincedence

I hope so / guess so, but I've got to make sure. I'm covered by warranty and gonna RMA it, but I don't wanna risk frying it again. So in case I'm not sure what killed my card, I couldn't risk OC'ing again, which shouldn't be an option

@WA261: Why should cooling do any good? AGP/PCI locked at 66...