I decided to build a very cheap system for my friend, he didn't care about playing games, all he basically does is use a system to screw around with the internet and occasionally for a bit of photo editing. I decided that the most cost effecitve system would be on a 810 chipset (yeah I know it leaves a bad taste in my mouth too) running a celeron overclocked to 800. Not a bad deal for under 600 though..
I built the system and everything seemed to work fine. Unfortunetly when i placed the modem in the system the sound quality became poor. Any audio I played crackled when dialing to a ISP or just browsing. I hoped that the modem, which was a crappy PCI lucent winmodem was at fault. I traded it in for a Modem with a onboard chip. Still the problem occured. I hoped that by adding a external soundcard instead of using the onboard would help but it did not either. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Notes:
Problem with sound only occurs when a modem is present in the system.
I am using a Shuttle 810 133A chipset motherboard with built in AC97 sound and built in video.
I have tried 2 modems one being a winmodem.
I have tried a creative labs soundcard.
I would also like to add that the problem occurs when running at 533 as well.
I admit, I am running WindowsME full retail, but in its defense it has run flawlessly on 6 systems of mine and my friends. i don't think its responsible. only way i know to check is to reformat and install 98 but I was hoping to avaoid that.
I built the system and everything seemed to work fine. Unfortunetly when i placed the modem in the system the sound quality became poor. Any audio I played crackled when dialing to a ISP or just browsing. I hoped that the modem, which was a crappy PCI lucent winmodem was at fault. I traded it in for a Modem with a onboard chip. Still the problem occured. I hoped that by adding a external soundcard instead of using the onboard would help but it did not either. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Notes:
Problem with sound only occurs when a modem is present in the system.
I am using a Shuttle 810 133A chipset motherboard with built in AC97 sound and built in video.
I have tried 2 modems one being a winmodem.
I have tried a creative labs soundcard.
I would also like to add that the problem occurs when running at 533 as well.
I admit, I am running WindowsME full retail, but in its defense it has run flawlessly on 6 systems of mine and my friends. i don't think its responsible. only way i know to check is to reformat and install 98 but I was hoping to avaoid that.
