Sound Problems

[zafonica]

Hi, I have an Athlon XP2400 PC with 512MB DDRAM, 60GB hard drive and C-Media Sound Card that is driving me b**** nuts. I have had the system about 8 months and the sound has been fine. all of a sudden after a fresh install I have corrupt sound you know it sounds like it is stuttering all the time. Music plays for a few seconds then a stutter then fine then stutter etc. Try as I might I cannot seem to fix it and I have had enough. I have disable the on-board sound (also stutters when it is set to default sound) I have updated the drivers. I tried to change the IRQ (no conflict) but was unable to as the buttons were greyed out even though I went into the BIOS and set the PCI configuration to manual. If anyone can help me on this I will be eternally grateful.

thanks in advance

David

PS The mobo is a Elite Computer Systems K7VTA3 with a version 3.0 BIOS

[BipolarBill]

Windows version?

Have you bothered to run the ECS Setup CD and install the VIA 4in1 drivers?

[zafonica]

Hi, yes I have and it install the Avance 97 Audio Codec which still gives problems. Am running XP Pro so any help appreciated

Cheers

David

[BipolarBill]

Did you uninstall the Avance drivers? You need to if you're using a card. Be sure that you've selected the proper audio device in Sounds and Multimedia.

[rmanet]

I've had problems with audio drivers fairly frequently, usually the AC 97 onboard - sound suddently stops working and the device (even tho it's showing in device manager) simply doesn't show up when checking control panel

my problem was the soyo driver was bad, the mobo cd driver was bad, finally found a via combo driver that worked just fine

you said this happened after a fresh install - was it a complete reinstall of xp? if so like Bill says if you want to use the C-Media card you need to uninstall any sound card driver you can find, then use regcleaner, etc and get rid of them that way too - even look in the windows/inf folder

let us know how you get along :t

[zafonica]

Thanks guys - it was a complete new install of xp. You mention a combo driver that worked for you - can you point me in the direction of this please so that I can give it a go.

Cheers

David

PS I will give the regcleaner/inf/uninstall sound driver route a try in the meantime

[rmanet]

Originally posted by zafonica
You mention a combo driver that worked for you - can you point me in the direction of this please so that I can give it a go.

Cheers

David

PS I will give the regcleaner/inf/uninstall sound driver route a try in the meantime

hope it works for you - link is here (http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=69)