Very Very Crappy sound with Windows 2000, i hear "pop" noices an it skips....

[krupini]

Hi. I am having problem with my onboard sound card. I have Creative Sound Blaster 128 PCI. Umm, when I play sound in windows 2000, I hear distorted and crappy sound, with "crack" noises. This is happening when there is craphic activity on the screen. I have read many info about this issue, apperently, a few other sound blaster cards have this issue as well. My sound card does have a separate IRQ, different from my video card, and i have tried assigning my sound card many different IRQs, yet the problem is still there. I have the latest Service Pack 2 installed, but that doesn't fix the problem. I have been fiddling around with "Hardware Acceleration" and "Sample Rate Conversion", but that doesn't solve the problem. I've taken out all the other PCI cards in my PC, yet it didn't solve the problem. I've tried chaniging from "ACPI PC" to "Standard PC" in hardware wizard, as well as choosing different IRQ steering options, yet it didn't solve the problem as well. Windows 2000 support staff haven't been able to help my so far, they say it is probably the sound card issue. I have the latest ViA drivers installed as well. I also have tried using 3 different agp video cards but no success. I am using latest drivers. This problem never occured under Win 98SE or WinME.

So can u please tell me how to solve this problem, or maybe give me a link to another website/forum that talks about this problem. Thanx.

My specs:
Duron 600
Gigabyte GA-7ZX
Geforce 256 SDR
128 pc 133 ram
SB 128 PCI
Quantum Fireball Plus LM 15 gig hard drive
8*8*32 cdrw
Win2K SP2+DX 8

 

[Shudder]

I don't think it matters.. the fact you have a Creative card is probably the problem.

That Motherboard SHOULD have onboard sound, no? If not it's one of the rare few duron boards that doesn't.

If it does, try the onboard sound and see if the problem persists. If it's gone and you can stand onboard sound, keep it, if not, get a better sound card like a Phillips or Turtle Beach SC

 

[tweakmm]

Do you have the lastest BIOS? I think that sometimes that can be the problem, but im not sure

 

[Darkluck]

I've read in a couple of other forums that you should try moving your hard drive DMA assignment number(s) around and see if that works. Most people say that their crackling occurs when their HDD and sound card are working at the same time, if that's the case for you then this could work.

 

[krupini]

hmmm......I do have an onboard sound........maybe that's the problem

And by the way, my "popping" sound is connected to video card activity only.......



maybe i should just run out and get myself some cheap soundcard.......

 

[Shudder]

You think onboard sound is the problem?

If in your bios you disabled onboard sound PLUS SB emulation/legacy stuff.. that would be all you had to do.

But like I said, take out the SB and enable onboard sound and I can almost guarantee your problems will go away.

As for cheap, the Guillemont MUSE is 30 retail, who knows how low online, and is a good basic card

 

[krupini]

well, here is the thing........SB 128 is actually an onboard sound card, I cannot take it out, I can only disabe it. And if I disable it, I will have no sound whatsoever. I also have something called AC97 something something, could that thing be used as a sound card?

 

[Shudder]

Onboard SB 128? Interesting.

The AC'97 is what all the via MB's with on-board sound use

 

[Darkluck]

Specifically the via 686b chipset has a built-in SB card. They built it directly into the 686b southbridge chipset, which is why lots of people have compatibility issues with the AGP northbridge chipset. Basically it boils down to no SB card being able to work WELL with the system. It's rather ironic I feel that the integrated sound is SB. Check out viahardware they have some info on possible fixes. It appears via is aware of a bunch of problems with the 686b chipset and they release the 4.31/4.32 4-in-1 drivers to fix it. In most cases it has cleared up a lot of issues...lol...but not mine, which is why I keep reading lots of stuff on the web and forums trying to figure out a solution.

 

[krupini]

ok, thanx for ur help, the problem is solved.............(probably)

I changed my pin settings on my mobo, and I disabled onboard SB 128. Then, I went to my BIOS setup, and I see there a bunch of options for AC 97. I've never saw those options before, apparently, those options are only displayed when onboard SB 128 is disabled. So I enabled the AC97.......

The thing is, I already unistalled Win2K and using winME, so I don;t know if that solved the problem, but I'm pretty sure it would have.