Sound Card Problems with K7T Master

[Hermannthegerman]

Hey All!

Has anyone else seen problmes with the MSI K7T Master and sound cards. I have a Aureal Vortex2, and when I try to play sounds, the system freezes. Any ideas? Or maybe I should just get a Sound Blaster Live.

Mephistopheles

 

[pugh]

Did you disable the on board sound in the BIOS ?if so then maybe you should go with a SB Live!. I got one yesterday and installed it and it works sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! i love it.

 

[Hermannthegerman]

Yeah the first thing I did was disable the on board audio. I think I'm going to go ahead and order the sound blaster live platnuium 5.1

 

[holdencommodore]

This might be the problem (apparently with KX133 & KT133...
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VIA Apollo KX133 System Lockup caused by A3D Audio Chip
Location: Technical Bulletin
Article #: 1269
Last Modified: 7/5/2000
Product: EP-7KXA
ISSUE
Audio cards that use A3D audio chip causes KX133 system to deadlock when system traffic is heavy.
SOLUTION
A3D chip issues one memory read request cycle to North Bridge and expects a grant within 4 mico-sec of latency time. If PCI TRDY# is not asserted after 4 mico-sec, the A3D hardware will de-assert the FRAME# and REQ# to terminate the operation. However, the A3D audio software driver cannot acknowledge the termination and continues waiting for hardware response. Hence causes the system to deadlock.

This issue will only occur during heavy system traffic when the North Bridge cannot grant access to A3D audio chip within the 4 mico-sec latency time.

Source: VIA Application note Serial #AN137 Date 07/05/00.

ADDITIONAL NOTES
Since the above issue has no work-around on the VIA Apollo KX133 chipset EPoX suggests against using sound cards based with the A3D audio hardware with our EP-7KXA.


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[WetWilly]

Use Aureal's 2048 reference drivers. I'm using a Diamond MX-300 Vortex 2 card with no problems at all. Make sure you remove all traces of your old drivers before installing the reference drivers.

 

[Hermannthegerman]

It doesn't really matter now that I have purchased a new sound card, but where can I download those drivers?

Mephistopheles

 

[WetWilly]

You can get the drivers at Vortex of Sound.