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.

 

[Leokor]

This is apparently a problem with the drivers. You're not alone, I believe. You might have to wait till Creative writes the version working with XP.

Leo

 

[Iron Woode]

No problems here with my SB live!5.1 card under XP. Might be your motherboard. Check for a newer BIOS.

 

[TheWart]

try windows update, and in sound properties put the sound quality sliders one from the top instead of all the way up. just a thought for troubleshooting purposes.

 

[LarryJoe]

Interesting. I was just about to buy an Audigy for the same reason, but I guess I should hold off. I am using an SBLive XGamer and it also sounded fine in SE, but not up to par yet in XP. I also tried the XP drivers from the install as well as from XP update and then tired the Creative drivers. It sounds better, but still cracks and pops once in a while. I figured like you that I would just spend the $99 and get an Audigy and would be enjoying my tunes in full sound.

From what I have been reading, XP or Creative's drivers are still not optimized for the best quality. I can live with my sound for now. It is good to know that getting the Audigy will not improve things instantly.

LJ

 

[LarryJoe]

<< Might be your motherboard. Check for a newer BIOS >>



For sound issues? Never heard of flashing a BIOS for sound issues.

 

[madthumbs]

Why the hell are people still buying Creative's crap when there are much better brands/ prices out there? Creative is one of those companies that did "1" thing good a LONG time ago, and rode off that success since. All they make is crap now.

 

[Shuelessjo]

I have a friend with the same issue (XP and AUdigy).
The first time he installed XP, he did it over his Win98SE. When he received problems with this and even after downloading the latest driver, it still messed up on him.
He got pissed after not being able to solve this problem after a couple of weeks and he did the old Format c: and did a clean install of XP. Then he downloaded the latest drivers (as of 3 weeks ago) for his Audigy and everything worked fine.


JOSEPH

 

[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

 

[AMD4ME2]

I tried that a few hours ago and XP wouldn't even load anymore.. had to do some recovery console work to change the drivers back to the XP default ones!!

what drivers did you get from highpoint?

what mobo do you have?

what raid bios version?

I have the KT7A-Raid board...
using the
1.11.0402 version of the highpoint bios...

 

[AMD4ME2]

bump for me and others

 

[AMD4ME2]

one last bump in the night

 

[AMD4ME2]

last bump, djrob are you out there? or anyone else that knows what combination of hpt drivers/bios will fix this sound problem?