SOUND with WindowsXP?

[djrob]

Alright... I finally decided to switch to the NT kernel with Windows XP after sitting on 98SE for so many years, but I have not been having very much good luck... The problem lies in my sound. No matter what I play, from what source, it will have random garbles and burps and anomalies that completely ruin it. Sound in 98SE was utterly flawless with this exact setup.

At first I thought it was a driver issue. I was using a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 MP3+ soundcard and, although WindowsXP included native drivers for the Live series, I thought that perhaps they were not perfected. So I went off to the windows update site, and sure enough there were updated Live drivers. I download them, reboot, and the problem persists. Now I check the SoundBlaster site, and download the XP drivers there. Nada, sound is still screwy. Alright, I'm getting REALLY ticked off now... So I head off to Fry's and buy the new Creative Audigy Platinum, install it and hook it up, and my sound is STILL ACTING UP!!!

Does anyone have any ideas as to what is causing this, or how I could fix this problem? I am really REALLY frustrated, because half of what I do on the computer is sound (with the other half being 3d rendering/movies, which also include sound).

Thanks.

 

[BlueTDimly]

What motherboard do you have? With VIA KT133 chipsets, there was a problem with most motherboards that can be fixed with either a BIOS or VIA 4in1 update (I don't recall which).

BlueT.

 

[xWeston]

i had to update my highpoint controller drivers on my abit kt7a-raid before it would stop happening for me.

like the previous person said update 4in1, bios, and other chipset drivers and you should be good to go.

 

[djrob]

I am using an Abit KG7-RAID... I have updated everything, latest bios and drivers for pretty much everything in my computer.. tried VIA 4in1 pack, and I even tried tweaking with the PCI latency timing settings through a tweak I compiled in C++... Nothing seems to have helped...

 

[djrob]

FIXED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woohoooo!!!!

Believe it or not, the problem was in the RAID controller drivers...

I was originally using the HPT370 drivers that came with XP, then I went to ABIT's site and tried their RAID drivers... Neither of those helped, until I got the idea that maybe ABIT was getting lazy and there were more modern drivers directly from highpoint, and sure enough... The new HPT370 drivers from www.highpoint-tech.com fixed it...

HELL YEAH! ITS MUSIC TIME BABY

 

[DAPUNISHER]

thanks for posting the fix. If I run into someone else with that issue I'll pass along your hard won knowledge and save them alot of headaches