Mx300 problems

[Pollux]

Alright since i've installed the new sound card it's been nothing but problems. First of all it adds another 45 seconds to my boot-up time, secondly when i go to the device manager there is an exclamation point under Sound, video and game controllers in front of Monster Sound II Sound Blaster Pro Emulation. When I click on properties it says "If you want to use this device you must disable another device that is using the resources this device needs." I'm not even sure what this device does, and why it says that it can't find any free interrupt request is beyond me. Lastly it makes my quake 3 crackle on my speakers like mad! I'm pretty sure my speakers aren't blown because they don't crackle on anything else at all, but on q3 they crackle a bunch. Any suggestions to any of these problems would be GREATLY appreciated! thanks
-pollux

[BadBen]

Change The sound in a different PCI slot. It appen to me with the same problem with SoundBlaster live Value

BadBen

[Pollux]

Hey... i switched the pci slot... nothing changed. The problem is this... my speakers crackle badly when i'm playing quake 2 or quake 3 but don't crackle at all when i'm playing winamp songs. My question is this... is there a problem with my sound card or are my speakers blown out? please help me
-pollux

[Pollux]

Somebody has got to know the answer to this question. C'mon peeps... anybody anybody?
-(a very frustrated) pollux

[lost1]

Don't know how much help this will be but for the IRQ problem, go into BIOS settings & set PnP to manual. Then set IRQ 5 to LEGACY/ISA which should allow the SB emulation to move right in. If it doesn't, you can go under device manager & manually put it on IRQ5. Had this same problem with SB PCI512 & this cured it.
As far as the crackling speakers, I think your speakers are probably fine- just put a music CD in the CD drive & see if it sounds OK. If so, then your speakers are fine & it's a sound card or settings problem. I've had this problem with Quake & various soundcards in the past, & I usually wound up replacing the troublesome card with an ISA Soundblaster. Now all I use when I put systems together is SB16 and SB AWE64 ISA cards. Never had a single problem yet (knock on wood /forum/wink.gif )
Good luck

[Pollux]

Thanks a bundle BadBen and lost1. I'm going to return the sound card and get another and see if that fixes the problem. if not i'm going to return the speakers. eventually i will get to the end of this. The irq problem solved itself after i reinstalled the drivers several time so i don't know what's up with that /forum/smile.gif but whatever! Thanks a bundle and if anybody has additional info i'd love to hear it.
-pollux

[Pollux]

oops...double post

-pollux

[This message has been edited by Pollux (edited 10-06-99).]

[Pollux]

oops... triple post :P

-pollux

[This message has been edited by Pollux (edited 10-06-99).]