Realtek integrated audio + Logitech X-530

[MotF Bane]

I'm fairly certain my audio card (integrated) is Realtek ALC883, it's part of the GA-965P-DS3 Rev 3.3 board. Anyways, for some reason, the sound card is convinced that my subwoofer is ...well, I'm not sure what. For starters, when I raise the rear sound volume, the subwoofer volume rises. As for right now, I have rear, center, and subwoofer volumes at zero, and I have turned the subwoofer control knob to zero, but it still thunders occasionally. Any ideas how I make the subwoofer obey its own control knob and the subwoofer volume line in Windows?

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

how loud is "thunders"? What you're saying doesnt make sense. Sure, some signal gets sent through most of the time even when muted, but it would be very faint. And since you have both windows volume for the sound card AND the volume on the speakers turned off, there should be at most a barely audible sound.

 

[PurdueRy]

Sounds like you have bass management settings messed up. Is there settings for a crossover point?

 

[MotF Bane]

Thunders is heavy enough to send vibrations through the oak computer cabinet and through what was formerly an exterior wall of the house into the new addition, where the people can hear the subwoofer fighting with the TV sound.

What do you mean by bass management settings or crossover point? :/

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: MotF Bane
Thunders is heavy enough to send vibrations through the oak computer cabinet and through what was formerly an exterior wall of the house into the new addition, where the people can hear the subwoofer fighting with the TV sound.

What do you mean by bass management settings or crossover point? :/

Do me a favor...since I don't have access to your control panel settings. Take screen captures of each setting screen for your sound card driver control panel. This will make it much easier to see if something in software is set incorrectly.

 

[btcomm1]

How long has it been doing this? When you say it thunders occasionally, do you mean it correlates to what is on your computer or does it just randomly make noise? I would think if you have your PC muted and the sub control on the speaker all the way down then perhaps there is something wrong with the sub. Maybe you should contact logitech about this issue maybe there is actually something wrong with your speaker set.

 

[Fallengod]

Realtek is definitely not the best audio codec. ALso the audio codec you have is ALC888 not 83. 83 is in the 1.0 and 1.3 I never use onboard sound because they always take cpu cycles, I will always use creative labs sblive audigy card.

In terms of your issue. Make sure you use the latest bios and drivers.

 

[MotF Bane]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/darth_sauron/volume.jpg?t=1177020813

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/darth_sauron/sound01.jpg?t=1177020750

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/darth_sauron/sound02.jpg?t=1177020817

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/darth_sauron/sound03.jpg?t=1177020816

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/darth_sauron/sound04.jpg?t=1177020815

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/darth_sauron/sound05.jpg?t=1177020814


For those screenshots, one is the Realtek controls, one is Windows controls. The volume.jpg is just the Windows volume control. The Realtek and Windows programs are not bound together, I just set their windows side-by-side to put more information into each picture.

Well, I used to have this cabinet and speaker setup in another larger room, so sound got muffled, but I think it was still doing it, just not bothering me. This room is smaller, so everything echoes more, and my parents are complaining because it adds sounds behind the TV. The sounds do fit with my music or whatever is being done at the time.

I have the F9 BIOS (which came default on the motherboard), and I have the drivers straight from the motherboard's included CD. I haven't noticed it taking CPU cycles, I have an E6400 @ 3.2 Ghz, so it sits at idle most of the time.

Couple of other important details I came up with: I have Windows XP Media Center 2005, and both Winamp 5.08c and Windows Media Player have this issue, as does Jedi Knight 2. (Proving it's not just one program that has issues)

Fallengod, does the Creative card allow you to tweak the volume of each individual speaker? If you haven't used the X-530 system, it has 3 wires to the right front speaker from the computer, and then there is a thick cable with a serial input that connects the right front speaker to the subwoofer. The subwoofer then sends sound (and power) out to the other four speakers.

 

[PurdueRy]

Well one thing I notice is it appears that you have the rear backs enabled and not the rear surrounds enabled.