My Sound Card Sounds Horrible!

[Brockalee]

I just installed a Diamond Sonic Impact PCI sound card that I've had in other computers (and it worked) in a Win-95 machine and the sound is horrible! I've tried all the different pci slots, but they all make Whitney Houston sound like she's been smoking menthol cigarettes rolled in 80 grit sandpaper for 75 years. That is...if I listened to Whitney Houston... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif It has a grainy sound in both .wav, .mid, and .mov fies. (Everything I've tried.) I've tried both out ports and I've also tried different sets of speakers. It doesn't show any conflict in the Device menu. My ISA ports don't seem to be working, but I don't know enough about computers to know if that'd affect anything else. (ISA won't recognize anything as plug and play and I've not been able to install anything on them.) Thanks for any help.

[Bazango]

I had a problem with static on my Asound card until I lined it to my stereo reciever. See the "...old school reciever..." posting under general. Is static your problem?

[DavidX]

I can't suggest any solutions to your PCI card offhand but . . .

The reason no Plug&Play ISA cards work in your computer may be because your computer is too old to have a Plug&Play BIOS (only guessing here; I don't know how old your computer is). In order to get ISA Plug&Play cards to work you would need an ISA Plug&Play Configuration Manager (Intel's version works fine in an old 486 I have). This is software which acts like a Plug&Play BIOS. Without it, no, any Plug&Play ISA cards will not work unless you have a real Plug&Play BIOS.

[This message has been edited by DavidX (edited 06-28-99).]