Garbled sound in Windows XP

[Lonewolf54]

I built a new computer containing an Asus A7V266 motherboard, an AMD Athalon XP 1800+ CPU, 512 MEG of DDR DRAM, a Creative Labs Soundblaster PCI 128 sound card, and an ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro video card. I installed Windows XP and as soon as it started I noticed that the Windows start wave file was garbled. I tried playing an MPEG music video and the sound was garbled here as well. I then tried playing an mp3 with Winamp and guess what? :disgust:. It too came out garbled. I then tried the TV tuner and the sound from that was normal.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

 

[jcmkk]

Sounds like a driver problem to me. Creative Labs has some of the worse drivers around so it's not suprising.

 

[Insidious]

do the windows update thingy and let the XP drivers run your sound card (uninstall all Creative Software first)

I had to do this to solve the last of my sound issues (soundblaster Live!)

 

[powerMarkymark]

Bump

 

[Lonewolf54]

The first thing I tried was to uninstall the driver that XP installs and installing the latest driver from Creative Labs for this OS/hardware. No change.

 

[Insidious]

You might try 'Update Driver" in the Device Manager and tell it
to look on the internet for a driver.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Is this problem occur only with WindowsXP or does it also happent with other OS you have tried?

 

[Lonewolf54]

It also happens with Win 2000. No problems at all in Win 98 SE which is where I am now.

 

[Lonewolf54]

Tried the "update driver from Internet" and it did not make any difference. Also tried updating Windows XP and this also made no difference. I'm rapidly running out of ideas and patience with Win XP.

 

[Insidious]

Ratz!

I really thought that'd fix you up.

Only other thing I can think of is trying a different PCI slot. ??????

(srry couldn't be more help)

PS: Be sure to completely uninstall software, then power down and remove card. power back up without it.
then shutdown again and install in new slot when experimenting with location changes.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Insidious might just be on to something, a different PCI slot for the sound card could do the trick.

Also, can you try the sound card in another system that has Win XP up and running? (just might be the card that dosen't like XP).

Keep on truckin' bro.



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[Lonewolf54]

It could be the sound card it doesn't like. The last time I installed XP on it was on a Pentium 233 with 64 MEG or ram (the bare minimum requirements for it) and an old SB 16 card (pre PCI). It broke the Windows opening wav into 3 parts but didn't distort them. When playing mpgs the video portion played fine but the audio was choppy (again not distorted though). When trying to play mp3s it froze within a second of starting so I souldn't tell if it was just choppy or if it was distorted as well. What I'm getting now though is total distortion but no choppines. Some trade off. I will try putting the card in a different slot but I might wind up trying another sound card altogether. Thanks for all the ideas.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Bump

 

[Lonewolf54]

And the saga continues.

I tried the sound card in 2 different PCI slots resulting in absolutely no improvement in the sound quality. My next move will be to try another brand of sound card. Seriously considering a Santa Cruz.

 

[mastertech01]

Is that a VIA board? Have you checked to see if there are any chipset manufacturer fixes? Via and Sound Blaster have had a bad compatibility problem for quite some time on some boards.