Sound card issues
I have a Diamond MX300 (Vortex 2) card in my System, and I have incredibly low volumes. I have to turn ym speakers up to around the 70-80% mark to get any decent volumes, and get quite a bit of crackling and sound loss in XP RC1 Perhaps the Card itself is dying, and if so what do you recommend? Im not gonna buy a C ...
I have a Diamond MX300 (Vortex 2) card in my System, and I have incredibly low volumes. I have to turn ym speakers up to around the 70-80% mark to get any decent volumes, and get quite a bit of crackling and sound loss in XP RC1
Perhaps the Card itself is dying, and if so what do you recommend? Im not gonna buy a Creative P.O.S, and a Santa Cruz is like $450 in New Zealand (and thats Wholesale too!)
Any ideas?
System Specs.
Celeron 667 @ 833
ASUS CUBX
256 MB PC133
GeForce 2 GTS (32 meg) 14.20 Detonators
Diamond MX300 (Default XP drivers)
3COM NIC
IBM DMA66 HDD (13.5)
Perhaps the Card itself is dying, and if so what do you recommend? Im not gonna buy a Creative P.O.S, and a Santa Cruz is like $450 in New Zealand (and thats Wholesale too!)
Any ideas?
System Specs.
Celeron 667 @ 833
ASUS CUBX
256 MB PC133
GeForce 2 GTS (32 meg) 14.20 Detonators
Diamond MX300 (Default XP drivers)
3COM NIC
IBM DMA66 HDD (13.5)
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I'll go ahead and put the obvious, which you've probably already checked. Check your Windows volume settings. Make sure that the master volume is turned up.
As for the crackling, this is often caused by DirectX hardware acceleration. Go to RUN and type dxdiag. Select the Sound tab and turn acceleration off.
As for the crackling, this is often caused by DirectX hardware acceleration. Go to RUN and type dxdiag. Select the Sound tab and turn acceleration off.
I found the issue of the volume thing in another forum somewhere.
It turns out that the Front/rear speaker fader is set towards the back by default by XP, and if you turn on the AC97 controls and select the front/rear fader slider and slide it all the way forward the issue is solved.
This of course does make sense, but as to why MS set the fader to the back by default and made it so hard to find is another mystery.
Mike
It turns out that the Front/rear speaker fader is set towards the back by default by XP, and if you turn on the AC97 controls and select the front/rear fader slider and slide it all the way forward the issue is solved.
This of course does make sense, but as to why MS set the fader to the back by default and made it so hard to find is another mystery.
Mike
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Well, my SBlive Player 5.1 works fine for me even in XP.
have u managed to get the audioHQ/liveware stuff working 100%? i cannot access the speaker config so i cant use my surround setup
gib
Well, my SBlive Player 5.1 works fine for me even in XP.
have u managed to get the audioHQ/liveware stuff working 100%? i cannot access the speaker config so i cant use my surround setup
gib
It took upgrading to Winxp to finally get rid of my sound issues on my duallie rig.
Abit vp6
dual p3 700 oc'd to 933
1 gb cas3 pc133 (generic)
asus v7700 32mb geforce2 gts
Sb5.1 platinum
3com 3c905b 10/100 nic
texas instruments firewire card
adaptec 29160
ibm 18gb u160 SCSI (10,000rpm)
ibm 9gb ultr2 scsi (10,000rpm) x 2
ibm 20gb ultra 100 ide (7,200rpm) x 2 in raid 0 on highpoint controller
ibm 60gb ultra 100 ide (7,200rpm)
plextor 12x10x32 ide
plextor 8x20 SCSI
pioner 16x dvd slot
ls120 superfloppy
Abit vp6
dual p3 700 oc'd to 933
1 gb cas3 pc133 (generic)
asus v7700 32mb geforce2 gts
Sb5.1 platinum
3com 3c905b 10/100 nic
texas instruments firewire card
adaptec 29160
ibm 18gb u160 SCSI (10,000rpm)
ibm 9gb ultr2 scsi (10,000rpm) x 2
ibm 20gb ultra 100 ide (7,200rpm) x 2 in raid 0 on highpoint controller
ibm 60gb ultra 100 ide (7,200rpm)
plextor 12x10x32 ide
plextor 8x20 SCSI
pioner 16x dvd slot
ls120 superfloppy
