philips acoustic edge problem

[SEOTAIJI]

when i watch divx, the sound quality becomes scratchy (bad sound quality)
thats on windows 2000, on win98, it works fine
the thing i noticed was on win2000, my vid card, soundcard, ethernet card all share the same irq, while on win98, its all different
so im thinking.. can this irq sharing be whats causing the problem? or bad drivers? (mp3's, mpegs, games all sound good, just divx is messed up)
help me people
and if it is the irq sharing problem.. how do i assign each thing its own irq?
i have the asus cuv4x motherboard (awardbios)
thanx
latez

 

[Heretik]

It's possible that the IRQ sharing in Win2K COULD be causing your problems. Using ACPI in Win2K forced all my hardware to share IRQ 11 and it degraded video performance quite a bit. You can check out the following thread for tips on how to get all your goods on their own IRQ....good luck.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=34&threadid=321573

 

[resinboy]

there is a first revision to their drivers HERE that took out all of the extraneous noise for my Philips card. ( Make sure you have DMA enabled for the drive as well). I spent about 2 hours chasing the problem down, figuring the card was so new, there was no way they had new drivers out already. Also, save that link, as their site is a bitch to navigate
Resinboy

 

[resinboy]

sorry, went back to subscribe, and got a double post

 

[Junior0579]

SEOTAIJI,
I had the same prob with games and it was the IRQ sharing. The best way to get your cards to stop sharing one IRQ is to move them to different PCI slots.