Hey all...
I had installed XP about two weeks ago and I was loving it (for the most part), but the night of the installation, a really annoying problem manifested with my Monster MX300 sound card. During any kind of sound playback (mp3, wavs, ANYTHING), if there is any other program attempting to use the CPU (sometimes even during the startup wav at boot), the sound gets horribly garbled and dies. Once that happens, nothing short of a reboot would reinitialize the sound, and sometimes it required 2-3 reboots.
Before anyone says anything about the hardware, I went back to Win2k and have absolutely NO problems with playback or garbling, so I know the card isn't defective. System: 1Ghz Tbird, MSI 6167 mobo, 192 megs PC100 sdram, 40 gig WD400 HD, 32MB TNT2 Ultra video card, Monster MX300 sound, etc. etc. etc.
Because I've have problems ONLY under XP, I'm going to make a leap of faith and assume it's the XP drivers for the sound card that are causing the problem. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, have you found any kind of fix (aside from buying another sound card 😛 )??? Thanks in advance...
I had installed XP about two weeks ago and I was loving it (for the most part), but the night of the installation, a really annoying problem manifested with my Monster MX300 sound card. During any kind of sound playback (mp3, wavs, ANYTHING), if there is any other program attempting to use the CPU (sometimes even during the startup wav at boot), the sound gets horribly garbled and dies. Once that happens, nothing short of a reboot would reinitialize the sound, and sometimes it required 2-3 reboots.
Before anyone says anything about the hardware, I went back to Win2k and have absolutely NO problems with playback or garbling, so I know the card isn't defective. System: 1Ghz Tbird, MSI 6167 mobo, 192 megs PC100 sdram, 40 gig WD400 HD, 32MB TNT2 Ultra video card, Monster MX300 sound, etc. etc. etc.
Because I've have problems ONLY under XP, I'm going to make a leap of faith and assume it's the XP drivers for the sound card that are causing the problem. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, have you found any kind of fix (aside from buying another sound card 😛 )??? Thanks in advance...
