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Help with crackling sound

slickg

Senior member
Hello,

I have 400 mhz, 192 mb ram, opti plug and play soundcard. If I use winamp, the music sounds crystal clear. But if I use the Atomix program or any other mixing program for that matter or Eastside Hockey Manager, I hear a crackling noise and the music is kind of choppy. I purchased memory thinking that was the problem, but it wasn't. Any ideas what the problem could be? I was thinking soundcard but why would winamp be ok and other games? Thanks in advance for your help. If it is the soundcard, could you recommend any cheaper soundcards that would do the trick, thanks.
 
I'm a friend of his and he has an ISA sound card. It seems like that soundcard can't handle the output, right? What would be a good/cheap PCI sound card that he can get?
 
He could always change the IRQ settings in the Bios of his mobo, but if its an Interrupt problem he would be SOL unless he can change the INT settings in his bios. A lot of mobo's dont allow this and can confuse someone if they have no prior knowledge on how to do this. You really need a copy of the INT table for the mobo to do it properly/figure it out. If he had the option to change INT for the PCI slot his card is in he could always nick the INT setting from PCI slot 3 and pop the INT from the sound cards slot into PCI slot 3's setting.
Easier not to screw up your mobo's bios settings by just swapping cards around to allow sound card in slot 3 IMO, YMMV though 😉

Anyways, if he's looking for a cheap, good sound card, may i recommend the Hercules Maxisound Muse.
Very cheap, sounds great and has good driver support 🙂
 
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