Skuzzy

[TwinBoom]

i have amd athalon64 3200
939 chip
asus av8x board'
df 6800 ultra 256mg
 i installed a audigy 2zs 24bit card
after my old sblive quit workin
i installed newest drivers from creative
no interupts
sound is not as loud and when playing videos or listening to wav files
i get a popping noise
any suggestions? ty TB

[Skuzzy]

Did you remove the old drivers, before installing the new ones?  Did you install all of Creative's utilities?  Is there an onboard sound chip still enabled?

[0thehero]

This is a known issue with Creative cards and nForce 4/VIA KT series motherboards.  You can bore yourself to death with Creative's excuses here if you like.

Good luck.

[Fulmar]

Originally posted by 0thehero
This is a known issue with Creative cards and nForce 4/VIA KT series motherboards.  You can bore yourself to death with Creative's excuses here if you like.

Good luck.

Ditto.  nforce chipsets and SB are a well known unresolved issue.

[TwinBoom]

onboard chip is disabled
driver claimed it was uninstalling old driver
driver came with a console

[Vulcan]

I have a SB Audigy, Socket 939 Athlon 64 4000+ on a Gigabyte board, 7600GT, 2Gb RAM.... no noises/issues at all.

[Skuzzy]

Likewise Vulcan, I have three ASUS AN8X(sp?) motherboards with Audigy 2 ZS cards in them and all run fine.  But I only installed the driver for the cards.

[Eagler]

Originally posted by TwinBoom
onboard chip is disabled
driver claimed it was uninstalling old driver
driver came with a console

did you plug into the right mini jack on the card?

I have audigy card and asus mb (see specs) with no issues

[Krusty]

Remove all sound drivers. Reboot. Cancel the MS install hardware dialog.

Go to http://www.creativelabs.com and under support use "Software Autoupdate" (whatever it's currently labeled). It will install drivers so the card works, but won't screw around with adding control panels and other things that can screw up your sound. It install a "bare bones" setup, I guess you could say.

[eagl]

It may not help, but try moving the soundcard to another pci slot.

When I recently re-installed windows XP pro on my nforce3 mobo, my audigy2 never initialized and windows would not see it.  Resetting the mobo bios to force it to shuffle IRQs didn't help.  I moved the soundcard to another slot and it was recognized, but there were address range conflicts and some of the soundcard features were not recognized.  I moved the card back to it's original pci slot and it all worked again.

So...

Maybe the connector had corroded a bit and it just had to be reseated, but...

I think it's a compatibility issue and it just needed to get kicked in the head before it would work.  The card wouldn't initialize until the drivers were installed, and the drivers wouldn't install until the card was recognized.  Forcing the mobo to assign a different irq by moving it to another slot was what did the trick.

At least that's what I think happened.  So bottom line, try putting the card into another pci slot.

[Skuzzy]

Most PCI slots, in computers today, are hardwired to share interrupts with other devices.  Normally, there is only one PCI slot which is not shared with anything.  At least that is the case with Intel based motherboards.

Sound cards do not share IRQ's well at all.  None of them do.

Sound cards are the oddest device in a Windows computer.  They are the only device which has to operate completely asynchronous to the rest of the computer.  Even a video card cannot get away with that.
Not only do they have to operate asynchronously, they also have to be multi-threaded.

It's a wonder any of them work.