Soundcard Troubles

[IvorTheEngineDriver]

I just installed my Terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96 and I'm having some problems with it. When I played two audio cds that i've bought there's a hissing sound coming from the speakers, it's like the sound that a spinning CD would make.

Another problem is that the sound crackles, I've only heard this while playing a game so far. I've got an nForce 2 motherboard which crackles a little when I was using the on-board sound and I've heard that installing a new soundcard and disabling the on-board sound should solve this problem. I also can't get EAX or 5.1 sound to properly work with games, even though the card supports EAX 1.0 and 2.0 and also 6 channel 5.1.

Any ideas as to what's causing this?

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

the CD hissing could be the cd audio cable running from the cd-rom to the sound card. i had a similar issue with interference from fans and the internals of the computer putting noise into the card through that wire. i had to dsiable it.

does your motherboard happen to be the Asus nforce2?

 

[IvorTheEngineDriver]

My motherboards an MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR nForce 2, it crackled sometimes when I was using the on-board sound. That's why I decided to install a soundcard as I've heard that this should solve the crackling problem.

As for the cable, well I don't actually have a cable connected from any optical drives to my soundcard.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

well then how do you play the cds?

as for the crackle, try and narrow does when it takes place. its probably a hardware conflict. try different PCI slots and giving it its own IRQ.

 

[IvorTheEngineDriver]

I don't know, they just play. I've got a breakout box which came with the card.

I moved the card to a different PCI slot but that hasn't made any difference. How do I create an IRQ for the card?

 

[MDE]

Try headphones or different speakers.

 

[IvorTheEngineDriver]

It still crackles.