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Weird Sound problem

L

lybush

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Hi all,

I using a SOYO board with a '97AC sound chip in place of a regular sound card. It was working good enough for me, but recently started having a weird problem.

Sound will not work on my first boot. I always have to 'restart' and then the sound comes on as it should. Even if I boot to Dos first, the next boot to WIN will have sound. All subsequent boots work fine.

Is there an explanation for this?

Len lenk3@yahoo.com
 
It's a built in sound chip on the motherboard, in liew of a sound card.
I believe it is the AC '97 or something like that.

Len
 
do you know exaclty what model motherboard you have? Did you add anything recently (hardware or software) also can we get complete specs of your system?
 
Thanks for your interest in my problem.

I did add some things, such as a new Lite-on CD-rw which replaced my older CD reader and TurboTax software, but I don't remember if the sound problem preceded that or not.

I do know it used to work all the time, but it consistently will not work on the first boot.

Weird, isn't it?

Len
 
It might be a power quirk where the first bootup isn't supplying enough juice at first. Try upping your I/O voltage one notch (as in .1) in your bios and see if that helps.
 
Consider getting hold of a cheap soundcard and see if that works ok(you may even wanna consider that a worthwhile upgrade) Artis, Mercury etc do a C-Media 8738 based card (with 4 channel output and SPDIF) for around £10 here in the UK.

Corm
 
Thanks for all replies.

It seems that on a warm boot, the sound does not work, but on subsequent cold boots, it does work.
Awhile back, I did install a Vortex sound card, it is still in the computer, but couldn't load the drivers. The system always hung during the driver install. When I tried the sound card, I did remove the on chip
sound, AC '97 from the BIOS.

I did not yet try that .1 increase in voltage from the BIOS. I'm not certain I can find the place to do it.

I'm thinking of retrying to load the drivers for the vortex card as it is still installed, after I disable the on-board sound.

Len
 
Hi All,

It's about a month later and I still have this annoying problem.

Additional suggestions would be appreciated.

Len
 
I"m not sure where you are now??? Are you using the Vortex sound card now or are you still using the AC/97 onboard sound??? Here is what I think is happening...your Vortex drivers that didn't load up correctly are conflicting with your AC/97. I would totally remove all the Vortex drivers from your computer and uninstall the card too. I still need a little more info...what OS are you using and what is the model of your SOYO mobo??
 
Im not up on onboard sound either but... Have you removed the soundcard from device manager and physically removed the card? Reload the onboard sound drivers?
 
Thanks, all for your responses.

The Vortex is completely removed as are all its drivers. I am just working woth the AC97 on board sound chip.

I would like to try that voltage change in the Bios, but am not certain which voltage to change. The problem might just be in the voltage as it might just be the power supply warming up to speed that is the problem. Most everything in the system, including the SOYO 7Vca2 motherboard.
The oldest part of my system is the case with PS.

Len
 
I checked my BIOS and the only voltage I can change is called: vcore
The smallest change is a + 50%.

Wouldn't that be too much?

Len
 
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