sounds problems with biostar M7MIA xp 1700 tcwo deal

[etee]

Anyone else having problems with sound with the biostar M7MIA and sound? I am using mine with a athlon xp 1700+ from tcwo, 256 megs pc2100 ram, sb live value, and fresh install of windows xp. Whenever I play mp3 files, the sound gets choppy at random intervals. This problem occurs both with my sb live value and the onboard sound. After I upgraded the bios to the latest mia1101b, the problems remained. Anyone know how to fix this or a similar problem?

Thanks,
amit

 

[ScrapSilicon]

bump for you...BIOS...hmmmm.....running the BIOS the board shipped with...no probs with onboard AC97 here...(want a Santa Cruz tho...must get )

 

[Carrot44]

I have the same Board with a SB Live and a XP 1800 with no problems at all

Ken

 

[John P]

What else do you have in your machine? Is the sound sharing an IRQ with anything else?

 

[etee]

I have decided to try to get the onboard sound to work first. There are no irq sharing conflicts, the sound is the only device using irq5. I also have a 3com 905b network card, 1 dvd , 1 cdrw, 2 hard drives. The last 4 devices are all attached to their own channel. the hard drives are connected to the highpoint raid card, in a non-raid configuration. The cdrw is on IDE1 and the dvd is on IDE2. I used a quick install of the VIA 4in1 version 4.37.

The sound gets choppy about 2-3 times within a song for 1-2 seconds for no apparent reason.
It will have problems in any situation, even if winamp or media player is the only application running.

 

[etee]

Well, I put my hard drives on the onboard IDE controller instead of the RAID controller, disabled the RAID controller and all my problems disappeared. Anyone else operating problems free using the highpoint raid controller with their hard drives?

 

[jonnyGURU]

Mine is working fine. Perhaps an update to the RAID drivers is in order.

Maybe?

 

[Carrot44]

When I had Raid set up my sound was fine with the default drivers that come with it. Strange

Ken

 

[jonnyGURU]

Hmm.... I just decided to pop a few HDD caddies in my machine. Had been using the CoolerMaster rounded cables. Guess what! My sound got real choppy. Actually ANYTHING that accessed the hard drive on the fly got really choppy.

Hmm.... The only thing I changed was the addition of the HDD caddy which does add a little resistance to the IDE cable.

So I decided to forgo the rounded cable and put a standard ATA100 cable and the machine. BAM! The sound was back to normal.

Due to the fact that your sound got better when you didn't use the HPT370 and my sound got better when I didn't use the rounded cables, we can easily conlude that this has something to do with signal degration on the IDE channel affecting the CPU utilization, especially on boot up when IDE transfer is at it's heaviest.

Maybe you should try a different IDE cable (one that's shorter, etc) on the HPT controller and try it again.....