sound card problem or is it a bad motherboard

[mermaidaz]

my old system was a soyo sy-5ema pro. 500 cpu 288 ram memory, 3dfx voodoo 3500 tv agp card. diamond sonic s90, dlink network card. running fine in win 98, 2000, xp went to upgrade. when my youngest son upgraded his motherboard.

new system is a transcend ts-akt4, with the bios upgrade done 700cpu 288 ram memory put all my cards in. including a new 15 gig harddrive partion to 3 drives. couldn't install win 2000 it kept freezing. took the sound card out and it installed. fine. added sound card, and as soon as it would load windows first sound it would freeze in the middle of the sound.... so took sound card back out.... tried one of my other sound cards. creative sound blaster 16 pci. and it garbled the sound. used the motherboard sound it seems to be fine. but in mono cause the speaker port is bad and won't allow the plug to go in all the way..

reinstalled (clean) of win 98... sort of did the same things. seems this motherboard doesn't like sound cards....

tried win me. and i finally got win up and running without crashing from sound. upgraded sound files too.... but when i play a song wav, midi, mp3. it distorted sound, hold on to player window and the sound is good.. when i watch tv with the 3dfx voodoo 3500 tv it sounds good no distortion..... in the games i've installed roller coaster tycoon , monopoly tycoon sound is distorted at first. but clears up when you actually in game play... the sims loading preview of building a house. (nothing important ) it stutters with sound, and slows the video down.... but when you go into loading the game sound is fine. and while playing it's good. not as good as diamond sonic was. but liveable as far as sound goes, but the distortion is getting on nervs.....

and in case anyone is wondering i disabled onboard sound in bios, and even moved the jumpers on the mb. to diable sound still no help with the creative sound blaster16..

of all things. this motherboard isn't even a year old. it's one thing my son should have taken back when he had to use onboard sound and realized you couldn't push plug in all the way...

also bios says, the cpu is 113 F system is 93 f.... and the blame thing wants to keep counting ram memory over and over and over again until you hit esc....

any suggestions of what else to try.... is helpful...... waiting to hear back from creative labs and transcend but who knows when they'll answer...

thanks in advance.... probably wind up going to onboard sound maybe tape the damn thing in.. and just sucks in mono........



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[Murf]

Memory Count

Get into SETUP (CMOS-orBIOS as sometimes referred) and enable FAST Startup (could be worded different, usually in the Advanced Menu. This will stop it counting 3 times.

Really sounds like a driver problem, since you now have ME on it are the Sound Card Drivers made or compatible with ME?

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[mermaidaz]

it was on fast. and it seems to count more then 3 times. but then i never have left it going...... switched to normal does same thing.........

yes creative drivers updating to win me. still sounds distorted unless you can hold on to the player..... then sounds good....

i had the same problem with 2000.... and couldn't get it working anybetter. the only way the sound seems to work is using on board sound card.......




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some things work for some and the same things won't work for others.

[J A L]

Hi,
Can you afford to try a santa cruz sound card? Santa Cruz

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[mermaidaz]

Originally posted by J A L:
Hi,
Can you afford to try a santa cruz sound card? Santa Cruz

i wish i could afford a new motherboard... lol. nope.... not at this time. money real tight..... i'm better with handme downs from my son....... lol

i've actually tried 4 different type of cards from complete installs, and none seem to get rid of the scratchy junky sound. but as i said hold the window while mp3's and midi's play the sound is great. and it is pretty good inside the games.... haven't tried any online ones.....

but it does look like a nice sound card if i get a job and some money.... extra.......




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[badaxxe]

Is the sound card ISA or PCI?I put together a PCChips Motherbord with AMD 450,close to 300 megs of ram,12 gig drive ect.When I turned the system on it had a regenerating sound(feedback).SB Live, MX 400,Ensoniq PCI,Turtle Beach...yes I collect sound cards as I record original music.Anyways I posted here and no one knew what was wrong well last night I moved the card into a closer PCI slot to the AGP and no distortion on wave files.Could it be you are sharing an ISA slot with the PCI slot?Just a idea as Murf,Train,BJ and countless others have helped me so much!
I tried ME but for music creation 98 SE is the choice.

[lordcool]

hey ...

same thing here .....
except i have a brand new top-of-the-line
motherboard ...

it is NOT the motherboard .....

i sure am glad to see this post ....
because i have the same problem ... and i have no solution ....

on my system .. i thought perhaps it was bus noise leaking into the pci bus ....

but now i know ....
i know "probably for sure"

.... solution .....

notice the correlation between what's happening on the screen, and what you hear ...


it's the f'n voodoo card man ....

guess what .... i have a voodoo card too
... but mine is a pci card ....

my sound distorts ... when the screen is doing sommething ...

( i'm not fixing any more mm typo's ... my mmmmmm key must be sticky .... and i'm not fixin any more mmmmmm typo's ... )

YUCK ,....
ssssppptt
i held my kb upside down and blew on the keys ....

so ... now how do we rationalize why the onboard works ..... hhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm

... possibly try a ISA sound card ....

[mermaidaz]

no the creative sound blaster is pci. and i put it in several slots same thing... creative labs say it's more likely to be hardware conflict. It's pci not isa. although i had the two working together with another motherboard.... with no problems.


transcend is replacing the motherboard with a new one, seems this mother board right after we bought it had lots of audio problems, and changes were made to the board itself....... in hoping that when the new motherboard arrives next thursday... that i can get it to work..... with one of my sound cards,/ and the 3dfx voodoo3500 tv card.... if not i might just do the voodoo 2000 since i have that one too.... but the good part is if i'm stuck with on board sound. at least i should be able to get better sound then mono....

the funny thing is the sound sounded fine if you clicked on the top of the player and held it....... like moving the window around. and it worked really good in tv mode...... just not through any player.......

i also tried the soundblaster live gamers card on it didn't work..... but did on the other motherboard same model that other son had..


sorry i never thought about trying isa sound card.... wish i would have but heck i get a new motherboard...... straight from the factory........ and i won't have to install new bios for a while.

thanks for all the help, thoughts.



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some things work for some and the same things won't work for others.