Sound Troubles.

[Bob]

Thought I'd try the General category as music isn't where
my sound problems are located. Hopefully someone can help
me.

Problem:
Scratchy Garbled sound.

When it DOESN'T happen:
Playing music, playing sound-bytes, etc. WinAmp/WMP9 work
fine.

When it DOES happen:
Interfacing sounds such as AOL Logon/Logoff, Logon/Logoff
of Windows, Gaming sounds(Magic Casting/Creature Sounds
in Asheron's Call.)

Why its NOT the soundcard:
I get the problem when I hook my headphones and speakers
into the AC'97 Onboard Sound

Why its NOT the Speakers or Headphones:
They work on my mom's PC, and my CD Player perfectly.

Why I know its NOT just those .wav files:
I can play them in Windows Media Player 9 and they play
flawlessly.

When this surfaced:
When I installed WinXP.(all sound worked fine in Win98)

What I have done:
Two Fresh Installs (after reformat) of WinXP.
One Fresh Install of WinXP SP2Beta.
One Update from Win98SE to XP.
One Update from Win2k Pro to XP.
Updated ALL drivers for EVERY device.
EVERY Security Update.
NEWEST DX9.
Muted Line-In.
Muted CD(could hear the cd-rom processing CD's in my
headphones.)
Moved my soundcard to new PC Slot furthest away from AGP
drive.
Made sure my AGP was at fullest setting.
Made sure all IDE devices were set to DMA When Available.
Made sure all power saving options that COULD be shut off
ARE shut off.
Made sure all Ports (printer/gaming/usb/etc) that are Not
in use are NOT turned on.
Made sure Processor wasn't oc'd(kinda hard to forget if
it was)
Made sure all hardware connections are secure.
Disabled any programs/services not needed to run WinXP
(windows messenger)
Double-Checked my memory to make sure it was securely in-
slot.

[Kenny]

If you have both onboard sound and a PCI soundcard disable the onboard sound
in BIOS, don't have both of them active.

--

Kenny


"Bob" > wrote in message
...
> Thought I'd try the General category as music isn't where
> my sound problems are located. Hopefully someone can help
> me.
>
> Problem:
> Scratchy Garbled sound.
>
> When it DOESN'T happen:
> Playing music, playing sound-bytes, etc. WinAmp/WMP9 work
> fine.
>
> When it DOES happen:
> Interfacing sounds such as AOL Logon/Logoff, Logon/Logoff
> of Windows, Gaming sounds(Magic Casting/Creature Sounds
> in Asheron's Call.)
>
> Why its NOT the soundcard:
> I get the problem when I hook my headphones and speakers
> into the AC'97 Onboard Sound
>
> Why its NOT the Speakers or Headphones:
> They work on my mom's PC, and my CD Player perfectly.
>
> Why I know its NOT just those .wav files:
> I can play them in Windows Media Player 9 and they play
> flawlessly.
>
> When this surfaced:
> When I installed WinXP.(all sound worked fine in Win98)
>
> What I have done:
> Two Fresh Installs (after reformat) of WinXP.
> One Fresh Install of WinXP SP2Beta.
> One Update from Win98SE to XP.
> One Update from Win2k Pro to XP.
> Updated ALL drivers for EVERY device.
> EVERY Security Update.
> NEWEST DX9.
> Muted Line-In.
> Muted CD(could hear the cd-rom processing CD's in my
> headphones.)
> Moved my soundcard to new PC Slot furthest away from AGP
> drive.
> Made sure my AGP was at fullest setting.
> Made sure all IDE devices were set to DMA When Available.
> Made sure all power saving options that COULD be shut off
> ARE shut off.
> Made sure all Ports (printer/gaming/usb/etc) that are Not
> in use are NOT turned on.
> Made sure Processor wasn't oc'd(kinda hard to forget if
> it was)
> Made sure all hardware connections are secure.
> Disabled any programs/services not needed to run WinXP
> (windows messenger)
> Double-Checked my memory to make sure it was securely in-
> slot.

[Bob]

I made sure of that too... thats what I initially thought
it was. But Onboard is off and I get the trouble and when
I tested the headphones etc. In the Onboard I removed the
Soundblaster from the PCI slot.
>-----Original Message-----
>If you have both onboard sound and a PCI soundcard
disable the onboard sound
>in BIOS, don't have both of them active.
>
>--
>
>Kenny
>
>
>"Bob" > wrote in message
...
>> Thought I'd try the General category as music isn't
where
>> my sound problems are located. Hopefully someone can
help
>> me.
>>
>> Problem:
>> Scratchy Garbled sound.
>>
>> When it DOESN'T happen:
>> Playing music, playing sound-bytes, etc. WinAmp/WMP9
work
>> fine.
>>
>> When it DOES happen:
>> Interfacing sounds such as AOL Logon/Logoff,
Logon/Logoff
>> of Windows, Gaming sounds(Magic Casting/Creature Sounds
>> in Asheron's Call.)
>>
>> Why its NOT the soundcard:
>> I get the problem when I hook my headphones and
speakers
>> into the AC'97 Onboard Sound
>>
>> Why its NOT the Speakers or Headphones:
>> They work on my mom's PC, and my CD Player perfectly.
>>
>> Why I know its NOT just those .wav files:
>> I can play them in Windows Media Player 9 and they play
>> flawlessly.
>>
>> When this surfaced:
>> When I installed WinXP.(all sound worked fine in Win98)
>>
>> What I have done:
>> Two Fresh Installs (after reformat) of WinXP.
>> One Fresh Install of WinXP SP2Beta.
>> One Update from Win98SE to XP.
>> One Update from Win2k Pro to XP.
>> Updated ALL drivers for EVERY device.
>> EVERY Security Update.
>> NEWEST DX9.
>> Muted Line-In.
>> Muted CD(could hear the cd-rom processing CD's in my
>> headphones.)
>> Moved my soundcard to new PC Slot furthest away from
AGP
>> drive.
>> Made sure my AGP was at fullest setting.
>> Made sure all IDE devices were set to DMA When
Available.
>> Made sure all power saving options that COULD be shut
off
>> ARE shut off.
>> Made sure all Ports (printer/gaming/usb/etc) that are
Not
>> in use are NOT turned on.
>> Made sure Processor wasn't oc'd(kinda hard to forget if
>> it was)
>> Made sure all hardware connections are secure.
>> Disabled any programs/services not needed to run WinXP
>> (windows messenger)
>> Double-Checked my memory to make sure it was securely
in-
>> slot.
>
>
>.
>

[Frank]

|| -----Original Message-----
|| If you have both onboard sound and a PCI soundcard disable the
|| onboard sound in BIOS, don't have both of them active.

Bob wrote:
| I made sure of that too... thats what I initially thought
| it was. But Onboard is off and I get the trouble and when
| I tested the headphones etc. In the Onboard I removed the
| Soundblaster from the PCI slot.

Did you go into device manager and uninstall the sb first??
Did you then remove the card from the slot??
Then did you run CTZAPXX.EXE??
Did you then install the sound drivers for the onboard sound?
As an added note I just sent a motherboard back yesterday
because the jack was bad.


--
Tampa Bay

[Bob]

>-----Original Message-----
>|| -----Original Message-----
>|| If you have both onboard sound and a PCI soundcard
disable the
>|| onboard sound in BIOS, don't have both of them active.
>
>Bob wrote:
>| I made sure of that too... thats what I initially
thought
>| it was. But Onboard is off and I get the trouble and
when
>| I tested the headphones etc. In the Onboard I removed
the
>| Soundblaster from the PCI slot.
>
>Did you go into device manager and uninstall the sb
first??
>Did you then remove the card from the slot??
>Then did you run CTZAPXX.EXE??
>Did you then install the sound drivers for the onboard
sound?
>As an added note I just sent a motherboard back yesterday
>because the jack was bad.
>
>
>--
>Tampa Bay


Removed it from the Device Manager, before shutting off
PC to remove the card, then went into bios and enabled
the Onboard, followed by driver install on WinXP load.
Whats CTZAPXX.EXE though? hadn't heard of/used that.