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Philips Acoustic Edge and Windows XP Professional

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profbobo

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I just picked up this card, and am having problems with popping and crackle, particularly (but not limited to) mp3 listening. I've tried using the "new" beta drivers, the 1.57 regular drivers, making sure it's on its on own irq, and switching pci slots, but I still get crackle, particularly when my system is under heavy load. Anyone else have these problems? And has successfully resolved them? I'm running Windows XP Professional. I'd take it back, but i got the last one at Best Buy 🙁 Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide!
 
that odd...

i wish i could help u out. i'm running windows xp and the AE on two computers

havent had a single problem at all
 
Which drivers are you using? I'm getting really darn fed up with this card ... I've spent all of today and most of yesterday trying to eliminate the crackle. 🙁
 
Are you sure your HD is running with DMA enabled? If it is in PIO, the AE will crackle. I have found the 1.57 official drivers to work better in XP wih the AE, the newer beta ones seems to make some weird stuff happen when using the tone control...
 
Thanks a lot ... my primary ide channel (I think my hdds are on this) has both devices set to PIO mode, even though the transfer mode is set to DMA if available. I can't switch it over. Any ideas? 🙂
 
if u have ata-66/100/133 cable the blue end connector goes into the motherboard and the greyor black ends go into the hard drive. just letting u know 🙂 some times i believe that can cause those problems with dma
 
Sorry about this ... I'm kind of a newb 😛

I'm using an oem Dell now, p3 450 ... I was mucking around in the bios, but I couldn't find where to set it expressly to use dma. I found settings that said "standard, fast pia1, 2, etc., as well as something pia / mode 2" (or something similar). I didn't know which to do, so I left them at standard. The hard drives i have now are an ibm deskstar 45 gb, and a western digital 100 gigger ... both 7200 rpm. Not sure about the mobo type, since it's an oem computer :/ It's from the dimension series, about two years old, if that helps any.

Edit:

okay, just rebooted and wrote down all the stuff in my ide confguration:

type - auto
multi sector transfer
lba mode control

transfermode:
fast pio 1
fast pio 2
fast pio 3
fast pio 4
fpio3 / dma1
fpio4 / dma2
ultra dma:
ultra dma: mode 0
mode 1
mode 2
disabled

Edit 2:

AHHH, RULE! I rebooted and it works now. You guys are great! You saved me a trip to Best Buy and a discussion with customer service. Thanks again!
 
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