I installed Epox 8RDA+ with a XP 1900+, 2x256 2100 sticks, and a Powercolor radeon 9000Pro video bd this weekend - everything works fine, except for the audio. I am running Win 98SE.
Media Player 7.1 skips and is generally sounds bad. However, Winamp/Real Player/Music Juke Box run fine and the sound is pretty good over my $10 speakers. Audio CDs and DVDs play fine with the generic players that came with the drives.
I have just installed Pinnacle Sys Studio 8 and its sound is worse, and the sound locks up. Maybe that program requires a sound card and will not use the onboard sound - I have a email query pending with their tech support.
This has to be a drivers issue. I tried downloading drivers directly from nVidia, but that file was corrupted and the installation aborted. Will try again. I uninstalled MP and reinstalled it. Ran dxdiag - all ok.
Other people at amdmb forum have run into this problem - but no fixes have been suggested. While newer versions of Media Player are available - they are sneakyily intrusive and I want to avoid them if I can. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
The POST beep over the speakers is real loud, but that I understand needs a bios upgrade and disabling the AC97 at POST setting.
Media Player 7.1 skips and is generally sounds bad. However, Winamp/Real Player/Music Juke Box run fine and the sound is pretty good over my $10 speakers. Audio CDs and DVDs play fine with the generic players that came with the drives.
I have just installed Pinnacle Sys Studio 8 and its sound is worse, and the sound locks up. Maybe that program requires a sound card and will not use the onboard sound - I have a email query pending with their tech support.
This has to be a drivers issue. I tried downloading drivers directly from nVidia, but that file was corrupted and the installation aborted. Will try again. I uninstalled MP and reinstalled it. Ran dxdiag - all ok.
Other people at amdmb forum have run into this problem - but no fixes have been suggested. While newer versions of Media Player are available - they are sneakyily intrusive and I want to avoid them if I can. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
The POST beep over the speakers is real loud, but that I understand needs a bios upgrade and disabling the AC97 at POST setting.
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