And the Sound Card Issues Continue
OK, I bought a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 card. It's one of the older ones.
I have had problems with the sound stuttering ever since I installed it. It will play fine, but every 30 seconds or so an annoying buzz or skipping of the sound will occur.
I have tried a number of steps in order to trace the problem, but so far nothing has worked. (The OS is Win XP BTW)
That's everything I have done so far. I kind of stuck now. Has anyone else experienced similar troubles or am I missing something obvious? I have also posted this at ClieSource hoping to get some more input on this.
I have had problems with the sound stuttering ever since I installed it. It will play fine, but every 30 seconds or so an annoying buzz or skipping of the sound will occur.
I have tried a number of steps in order to trace the problem, but so far nothing has worked. (The OS is Win XP BTW)
- I first tried reinstalling the device drivers. That had no effect, so I went and made sure I had the latest drivers and I do.
- I then went ahead and updated the motherboard drivers. That also had no effect.
- Since I needed to anyways, I went ahead and reinstalled Windows. I normally wouldn't have given up so quickly, but I planned on doing this within a few weeks anyway. Still, same results.
- So, I made sure to reinstall all the drivers. I also had some trouble with my NIC card since I installed the sound card. I had an onboard NIC and a PCI NIC, so I just removed the PCI NIC.
- I moved the sound card to a different PCI slot since after removing the PCI NIC, the IRQ of the onboard NIC and sound card were the same. I have now verified that nothing shares any resources with the sound card.
- I also went into the Control Panel, then Sounds and Audio Devices. I went to the Audio tab, advanced properties and turned down the hardware acceleration. This seemed to work the other day, but now I am having the sound problems again.
That's everything I have done so far. I kind of stuck now. Has anyone else experienced similar troubles or am I missing something obvious? I have also posted this at ClieSource hoping to get some more input on this.