Problem with a Sound Blaster Live in ECS K7S5A

[Quake]

The problem is whenever I play a movie, the sound has statics

I'm running:
Amd Athlon 1800+
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI
Sound Blaster Live!
Maxtor 20 GB
128 Meg ram

 

[gogeeta13]

what OS?

Make sure you have WMP set to sb live! wave out not direct sound

 

[Quake]

I'm using Xp right now, but the problem was also in Windows 98

 

[Quake]

Please Help me

 

[Quake]

By the way, it's not only in Movies

 

[4U]

Dude
I have the same problem with static sound in games and video dvd playback!

I have
ecs k7s5a + 1 gig duron
wd 20 gig
voodoo3 2000 pci
soundblaster 16 and onboardsound tried
memory exchanged
board and processor exchanged
I think the problem is the voodoo card
let me know when you try an other videocard so will I let you know!!!

 

[FrostyFlakes]

try pci slot 2 for sound cards see how that works out. and try different slots for ur video cards. seems both of u having the problems also own the same video pci card.

 

[4U]

I tried some of the other pci slots.
And I tried with and without the sound blaster card.
The problem exists also with onboard audio.
I think its an incompatibility issue.

 

[FrostyFlakes]

i think its the voodoo pci that's incompat. cause i've tried sblive and sb pci soundcards and all worked fine. try to see if the latest bios fixes that? try it with ur soundcard in and different video card. i remember i had such a hard time getting my pci video to work right. you have to make sure it gets its own irq or everything goes down the drain. try your video card in pci slot 2 with sound off and sound card on different slot like three or four.

 

[Lorne]

What chipset you running, If Via , Maybe you are haveing the latency problem with the MB and may want to check into the patch Via offers, The more PCI hardware you run the more noticable it shows.

 

[breweyez]

its a SIS735 chipset...its a card causing the problem i think. I have a problem using a raid card with this board. Anyone have a raid card working well with this MB??? Please PM me if so. Thanks

 

[Peter]

That the original SB!Live, or the 5.1? The former doesn't behave quite right on the PCI bus, causing all kinds of problems - the infamous "VIA chipset bug" being the most known one. Actually, it's the SB!Live card that crashes the VIA chipset, not the other way round. I'd be less than surprised if other chipsets (and other PCI cards) wouldn't be affected by the presence of SB!Live.

Simply use a different card. SB!Live 5.1 has the issue fixed, anything else by anyone is fine too - just avoid the SB!Live.

regards, Peter

 

[FrostyFlakes]

breweyez
which raid card? the epox? if that's the one its a flaky garbage raid card, doesn't work with sis and amd chipsets.

 

[4U]

I just switsched the graphics card to a hercules 4500 and eveything works fine!
It was definetly the incompatibility with the voodoo3 2000 pci!

 

[rwalterk]

Yeah 4U, I have almost an identical setup but no audio problems:

Duron 1ghz
ECS K7S5A
128 MB PC2100 DDR (Nanya)
20GB 7200 RPM HDD ATA100
Soundblaster PCI64
Diamond Viper V550 (TNT)

It most definitely must have been the Voodoo card. How weird!

 

[Pabster]

Peter wrote:

"Actually, it's the SB!Live card that crashes the VIA chipset, not the other way round."

Actually, you're wrong. It's the VIA chipset causing the SB! Live to sh!t out. This issue has been around for quite some time, most notoriously with VIA's pathetic 686B South Bridge. Unfortunately, the same issues plague 8233, found on all shipping KT266A mainboards.

 

[Quake]

Sorry for not replying so soon.
I'm running Windows 98
The static sound is in both Sound card, On-board and the SB Live Value.
Recently In heavy games like Max Payne, it's freezing. Also, I'm having some strange Horizontal lines. So what do you think?

Thank you for your Replies!!!!!!!!!

 

[Quake]

Thanks 4U, that's great news 😉😉😉

 

[AnMig]

Glad to know I am not the only one having this crackling problem specially when viewing dvd.
I thought it was the on board sound so a placed a sblive 5.1 (had one in the closet), still the same problem.
Downloaded the latest drivers of sblive still the same crackling sound.
I thought it was the over clocking bios so I went back to the regular ones.
This happens on both 98 and xp (double booted)

I guess the common denominator here is the VODOO3 2000 pci card

This is my daughters pc I gues will have to get a another vid card for her unless anybody has anyother ideas or fixes

Played around with the sound and hardware acceleration no help