Soundblaster Problems with Seti

[jinsonxu]

Just restarted Seti recently. And incidentally found out what prompted me to stop it in the first place.

With Seti running, I get a crackling sound at regular intervals when playing MP3s. 🙁

 

[LANMAN]

Originally posted by: jinsonxu
Just restarted Seti recently. And incidentally found out what prompted me to stop it in the first place.

With Seti running, I get a crackling sound at regular intervals when playing MP3s. 🙁

It happens on mine too. You can watch it as the processing goes on and see when you get the static. Don't feel bad, I usually turn off my SETI client when I want to hear it crystal clear. (Don't tell anyone else that!! 😀)

--LANMAN

 

[networkman]

I don't get it.. why put a sound card in a machine that's gonna crunch SETI or any other DC-type project? 😕

😉

 

[Ken g6]

If you're on Win9x, you can use Another Task Manager to lower SETI's priority. 🙂 If not, I don't know if your task manager can do anything or not.

 

[Wolfie]

That is strange. I haven't had any problems with my soundblaster while running seti. Not sure how to fix the problem but I thought I would throw in the info...

Wolfie

 

[LANMAN]

Originally posted by: Wolfie
That is strange. I haven't had any problems with my soundblaster while running seti. Not sure how to fix the problem but I thought I would throw in the info...

Wolfie

What is the version of your driver Wolfie? Maybe we can compare and see if you have a newer file. :Q 😉

The card I have is a Creative Labs Soundblaster 128D (PCI) if that helps. I ripped it out of a POS Gateway PC, so I can even get you the stock number too.

--LANMAN

 

[Robor]

Is it an OS, driver, or specific card problem? I've got Windows XP and SoundBlaster Audigy here. No static.

 

[micron]

I'm running a SB LIVE! X-GAMER in Win2k w/ no problems. 😕

 

[Assimilator1]

My little brother has a similar problem but only whilst playing midi files!😕
Mp3's aren't a problem

My fathers PC doesn't have any problems either

jinsonxu
Have you got the latest sound card & chipset drivers?

 

[Wolfie]

5.0.2184.1
Not sure if this is what you are looking for. This is for a SB live! PCI card. According to my hardware profiles of the card, the date is 11/18/1999 also. Maybe this helps. Maybe it won't. I guess the best thing is to download the latest drivers for the card... That's the only thing I can recomend.

Wolfie