XP scratchy/static crap from a SB Live 5.1.. is there a fix?

[Valhalla1]

I've seen this problem discussed a few times, I think its pretty widespready, but I've yet to see a fix. Heres the system:

1.2 tbird/512 pc2100
MSI K7 Master ddr board
sb live 5.1
latest (11/29) creative drivers
adaptec 29160 scsi adapter -> seagate 10k 18.2 primary
maxtor ata/66 secondary
ati AIW radeon


when playing mp3's (streamed from network drive or off secondary or primary disk), I get a bad scratching every once in a while, like when going thru the start menu or scollling a web page in IE with lots of tables.. I didnt have this crap in win2k, at least not this bad. and I've heard people with the same problem had zip problems in ME or 98.

one thing I have yet to try, I noticed the soundcard is sharing IRQ 11 with at least my adaptec scsi card (whats a quick way to view all irq's in XP besides looking at the resources of each individual device?), but I read somewhere that XP auto-assigns/shares irq's with multiple devices and moving the sound card around to a diff. pci slot wouldn't change its irq? I'll try this though next time I get a have to shutdown my workstation

I would rather not have to ditch this sound card for something else or upgrade to this expensive audigy stuff when this does me quite right w/ my old ass klipsch 400's. any other ideas, or has anyone fixed this on their system?

 

[Pabster]

K7 Master .. VIA .. SB! Live 5.1 .. Not a good combination.

Unfortunately, it'll likely end you up with a bald head and an empty bottle of Excedrin.

 

[Valhalla1]

I thought my motherboard was AMD 760 chipset, not via ??

 

[John]

<< I thought my motherboard was AMD 760 chipset, not via ?? >>



You have a Via 686B southbridge.

 

[AmazonRasta]

I have an Asus A7V133, Via, and an SB Live! 5.1.

I don't get the scratches he's complaining about, although I don't load MP3 files from a network or a secondary hard drive. However, I used to get the scratches when I was using the SB Live! 5.1 drivers that came built into XP. I downloaded the newest Creative drivers from http://www.soundblaster.com and now everything is working fine.

If you're using Microsoft's SB Live! 5.1 drivers, try giving the newest Creative ones a try.

Edit - Damn, just saw that you are in fact using Creative's drivers. Oh well .

 

[Lucky]

DL the latest 4in1 drivers, 4.31 onward supposedly fixed this.

 

[Valhalla1]

latest 4 in 1? is this from creative? I have the creative drivers that were recently released on 11/29 (think thats the date). is there even newer ones somewhere?

I had been using the default XP drivers and I had scratches, and now with the new creative ones I have just as much, maybe more problems

 

[ubersam]

<< latest 4 in 1? is this from creative? >>

No, it's from Via. Here's a Link to the download page. Although, I'm not sure which of the four you will need to install. The IRQ driver?

EDIT: Does your MB have on-board/chip sound? Has it been disabled in your BIOS? Also, some boards require IRQ #5 to be reserved for legacy devices when using SBLive cards. Supposedly, the card uses that IRQ when emulating lecagy SoundBlaster. I never had to do that for my setup, though.

 

[BlvdKing]

I had this problem on my KT133 (Giga-byte 7zx) board and my Audigy in WINXP. Strangely enough updating my BIOS to the latest (FF) fixed it. I don't think there is just one way to fix it; I think updating all your drivers and firmware is about the only way - and sometimes that doesn't work.

 

[Valhalla1]

<< EDIT: Does your MB have on-board/chip sound? Has it been disabled in your BIOS >>

no, no on board anything on this board (k7 master). so download something from via? only thing via is the south bridge or whatever.. this is supposed to fix my probs? I'll check it out