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Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 rev 3.3 sound problems

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citznfish

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I'm not up on hardware debugging, so please go easy on me. I recently assembled a new PC using the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 rev 3.3 motherboard. I have the following hardware installed: (all new)

Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 ATX12V 500W Power Supply

COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UB Black /Blue Aluminum Bezel , SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (in the yellow slots on the MB)

HITACHI Deskstar T7K500 HDT725032VLA360 (0A33435) 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Pioneer 18X DVD±R DVD Burner Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model DVR-112D

EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card



I assembled everything just fine. Windows XP pro installed just fine. I have no floppy disk but the fresh install of XP and SP2 (from a separate CD) seems to have installed the SATA drivers. But how do I know?

Anyway, my PROBLEM is that any music file I play on my hard drive or off the DVD or on USB will randomly slow down then go back to normal speed. After the install I added my old IDE hard drive and it also plays music files with the same issues. (it didn't on my older machine)

I am running the latest BIOS ( F11 ) and drivers from the gigabyte site. My processor is running at 2.4Ghz, not over clocking anything. I just set the BIOS to "optimized"

I have tried various media players (MS media player, Winamp, etc) and they all exhibit the same issues.

It seems that I get this problem no matter where the source is coming from. even a music CD in my DVD drive does this!

So how can I trouble shoot or fix this? How do I KNOW my motherboard is running the latest drivers? If SATA2 is set up correctly? If my BIOS is really running with the correct settings?

I am at a loss as to what I need to try to fix this. Gigabyte have basically washed their hands. they want me to RMA the board back which isn't an option. I know it's not a bad MB anyway because I have a friend with a similar problem and he has an OLDER model gigabyte board, not even a 965...

If it helps, here is some data from cpu-z:

http://www.arcade-at-home.com/ot/cpuz.jpg
( guess the forum won't display images.. 🙁 )
 
Just a shot in the dark here:
Assuming the DS3 is using the AC'97 by Realtek (I'm getting this board tomorrow for my new PC, hopefully it comes early morning...), I've experienced similar issues in the past and I just want to verify that it's the same or not. On my old Socket 939, I had the Ac'97 and when I used it on occasion (due to needing to clean my soundcard, or something), I noticed that in games it was totally fine, but when I played music, had similar happenings. Basically for me, I didn't get "slowdown" (but I can see how it could be likened to it), but the music would fade out a bit when a bass drop came. As in, a huge hit of bass and the rest of the music would fade out and all you could hear is the bass. Eventually after a few seconds, the vocals and the rest of the music would come back and be just fine until the next bass hit.

Assuming you're experiencing the same thing, my guess is it's just the AC'97. I would recommend upgrading to a real sound card if you plan on listening to music. Because when I put my old Sound Blaster back in, everything was totally fine and I had no more issues with this fading out.
 
Originally posted by: DasSmoof
Just a shot in the dark here:
Assuming the DS3 is using the AC'97 by Realtek (I'm getting this board tomorrow for my new PC, hopefully it comes early morning...), I've experienced similar issues in the past and I just want to verify that it's the same or not. On my old Socket 939, I had the Ac'97 and when I used it on occasion (due to needing to clean my soundcard, or something), I noticed that in games it was totally fine, but when I played music, had similar happenings. Basically for me, I didn't get "slowdown" (but I can see how it could be likened to it), but the music would fade out a bit when a bass drop came. As in, a huge hit of bass and the rest of the music would fade out and all you could hear is the bass. Eventually after a few seconds, the vocals and the rest of the music would come back and be just fine until the next bass hit.

Assuming you're experiencing the same thing, my guess is it's just the AC'97. I would recommend upgrading to a real sound card if you plan on listening to music. Because when I put my old Sound Blaster back in, everything was totally fine and I had no more issues with this fading out.
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Thanks for the reply. It def. isn't fading, it's physically slowing down the song. I have tried a sound card and got the same results. I don't think I am using AC'97. I have RealTek's HD Audio installed set to 2 channel speakers with just line out enabled.

:dunno:

just for the heck of it I am dowloading the 4.00 drivers from realtek's site.
 
OK, so installing the latest ac'97 drivers didn't work. What the hell could cause this? Aargh! I am so annoyed 😡
 
OK, so when it happens, the music slows down, I see my CPU Usage jump from 4-6% to 14% or so. That shouldn't do anything, right?

It's only CPU 0 not CPU1.

I'm going to try and set the affinity to CPU 1 for winamp.exe and see what happens...
 
I take it you have already uninstalled/reinstalled the audio drivers.
I would look into other drivers, such as your chipset esp considering that your cpu useage bumps up.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Sup...roductName=GA-965P-DS3

I have the same mobo but have never had your issue, i'm still using the F10 bios (didn't realize F11 was out)
Actually there is an F12 bios out now Add support for new super IO version
 
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