Sound Advice Plz

Started by Swiss, September 23, 2003, 10:02:22 PM

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Swiss

September 23, 2003, 10:02:22 PM
Help i need..............

I have an A7N8X Deluxe SKT A NForce2 Chipset Motherboard VER: 2.0 emmm nice but the sound keep going into wot i can only desribe as a darlek when playing online games why if any one can help me plz.


Swiss
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Sn00ks

#1
September 23, 2003, 10:14:09 PM
Ditto, Daelek sound after a few mins of playtime  :(
I suspect driver probs ut I've gone to the ASUS site and downloaded all the latest ones. :unsure:
Any sensible suggestions, or amusing unsensible ones?
I do exactly what the little voices tell me to.

PC Specs:- Black box with some fans that go whirrr, a few lights, things inside that get warm, headphones, keyboard (a clicky one), mouse (with buttons and no squeak), disks (2-off SSD and HDD) and a monitor of sufficient proportions.

Tutonic

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September 24, 2003, 12:07:48 AM
Yea, its called a SoundBlaster Audigy ;)

Seriously; upgrade to the latest drivers, and try fiddling with the sound quality/EAX/A3D settings.
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TeaLeaf

#3
September 24, 2003, 07:02:36 AM
You have the nVidia Soundstorm chipset doing the sound thang on that motherboard.  As has been said above, download the latest drivers and make sure you are running the latest BIOS.  The BIOS you can get from the Asus website.  

You can get the nVidia drivers from here.  Just follow the path Platform/Nforce Drivers/Unified Driver/Choose your OS.

The latest nVidia driver version has some fixes for the sound that the Asus version (2.30) did not have.

Older and non-Deluxe versions of the board have a different solution to the sound problem and need to download the latest Realtek CODECs  from here.  Choose the third one down in the top box.

A combination of the above three should fix any sound problems I hope.

TL.
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Cadaver

#4
September 24, 2003, 09:28:30 AM
Another thing you can do, which people over at the Asus forum  here suggest could also contribute to this sound issue, is check your interrupt (IRQ) allocation.  Open up the Device Manager.  Click View > Resources by Type, and expand the Interrupt Request (IRQ) set.  See what your IRQ allocation looks like.  If you have the Soundstorm APU and Codec sharing the same IRQ, or either share with your graphics card then it could be a problem.

Unfortunately, it's Windows responsibility to allocate IRQs.  Doesn't matter if you try to set them manually in the BIOS, Windows usually does its own thing.

To force it to re-allocate, you can try:

1) Switching off any peripherals in the BIOS you don't use e.g. serial ports, firewire, parallel port, onboard AC97 modem controller (which I disable because I didn't think the A7N8X Dlx had an onboard modem controller).

2) Moving your PCI cards around to different slots.  If you look in the manual, each PCI slot has an IRQ line connected to it, some share the same line.

3) Theres a third thing you can do which involves changing the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) of the OS, to disable the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC).  However, that's a bit hairy for the uninitiated, and I'd advise you to have a good search on the Asus forum at the URL above for APIC and sound issues before attempting it.

Basically you want to get the IRQ allocation such that there's minimal sharing.  But do what everyone else has suggested first i.e. update drivers, and BIOS, to see if it fixes your sound.

NB: The Asus drivers on their site (v1.16) are tweaked versions of the nVidia v2.03 set.  The latest set of reference nForce2 drivers (v2.45) are available direct from nVidia (as TeaLeaf said), and Asus haven't seen fit to modify these and release their own version yet.  The nVidia ones work OK though.  Just uninstall your Asus drivers first from Safe Mode, don't reboot, then install the nVidia 2.45 set, reboot, and you should be good.

I'm running 1004 of the BIOS and have the 2.45 nVidia driver set installed on my 1.04 deluxe board.  I still get this sound thing every now and again, but it's much better now than it used to be with these newer drivers.  Annoyingly, the only way to get rid of it is to quit out of a game and start it again  :angry:
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Cadaver

#5
September 24, 2003, 03:53:35 PM
While I remember it...

If you have XP installed and try to run the nVidia 2.45 Unified Driver Pack .exe it will barf.  Right click on its icon, select properties, compatibility tab, and change it to be compatible with Windows 2000.  It should work then.
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#6
September 24, 2003, 09:30:33 PM
I got this from time to time too. I usually just restart CS and it is fine. Will try and update the AC97 drivers.
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Sn00ks

#7
September 29, 2003, 01:05:27 PM
:D I installed the nVidia unified drivers and it all seems OK now  :)
No problems with XP or anything  :D
Thanks for the link TL.
I do exactly what the little voices tell me to.

PC Specs:- Black box with some fans that go whirrr, a few lights, things inside that get warm, headphones, keyboard (a clicky one), mouse (with buttons and no squeak), disks (2-off SSD and HDD) and a monitor of sufficient proportions.
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