Sound card not working

[howste]

Last night I was messing around with one of my computers and the sound card quit working. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif When I try to play an MP3 or WAV all I get is about ½ second of white noise, then nothing. The spectrum analyzer graphic in Winamp shows the music starting to play, then stops. I don't remember all of the system specs, but here's what I remember (no laughing please):

Windows 98 SE
Shuttle Hot-555 v3.2 motherboard
AMD K6/2 166
80MB EDO RAM (2 sticks of 32MB & 2 sticks of 8MB)
ISA SoundBlaster 16 PnP
PCI Video (2MB - I don't remember brand)
Jaz Jet (Adaptec) SCSI card w/ Jaz 1GB & Zip 250 external drives

I had the case open and had been doing a couple of things before I noticed the sound wasn't working. I had reset the CPU multiplier from 2.5x to 3x (o/c to 200Mhz) and changed the memory (trying to find out what a couple of sticks were that I had laying around).

Here are the things I tried when I realized that the sound wasn't working (reboot after each attempt):
• reset the CPU back to 166Mhz
• removed the sound card in Device Manager then reinstalled (Win98 default) drivers
• removed the sound card in Device Manager, moved the sound card to another ISA slot, then reinstalled drivers
• removed the sound card in Device Manager, removed the sound card, rebooted, shut down, reinstalled card, then reinstalled drivers

By this time it was 2:00 am and I went to bed. If anybody has some ideas I can try tonight, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Steve

[Win_98]

do scandisk and fix all error from c,d,e etc
still problem after that?
maybe your motherboard is screwed.
maybe your driver is corrupted.


another problem is device conflict
sometime it doesnt say so but
it will cause your sound card not to function
you are using IRQ 5 DMA 1 DMA 5
this is a tough one to nail
so use sisoft sandra and click on IRQ device
and it should tell ya if there any conflict.

[howste]

I fixed it!! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

There were no conflicts for IRQ or DMA, and the problem persisted after ScanDisk, with another sound card, & new drivers, so I thought I'd try the memory. Before I started changing things on my system, the 32MB sticks were in slots 0 & 1. When I put them back, they were in slots 2 & 3. Don't ask me why, but when I put them back in the original order, the sound started working again! It seems like I'd heard that you should use the higher capacity sticks in the first slots - could this be the cause? Kind of strange...

Thanks for your input Win_98.

Steve