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Audio problems

  • 06-04-2004 10:17am
    #1
    jammy_dodger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭


    Hello all, can any of you lend me your expetice.

    Ive had this audio problem with my pc for ages, nothing i do seems to solve the problem. Its hard to describe what happens, but it seem that when audio is played in conjucntion with other activeities. Such as games, or minimiseing winamp and such, the sound goes all choppy, slows down and freezes up the whole computer. The processor useage shoots upto 100%(but stays low while audio running ok)
    Now ive re-installed my audio drivers (cm87383) i think - didn't work
    Solved any hardware confilcts that were on my computer - didn't work
    Now ive completely formatted my harddrive re-installed a fresh win2k and the problem still persists.

    So ideas or suggestion would be very welcome

    My system is:

    mobo, iwill, raid motherboard (can't remember model number off hand)
    Athlon 1.4 ghz
    768 ram
    Win2k
    gerforce 4 64mb Ti42000
    oh and eh on board sound.

    p.s. These problems persisted around the time i installed halo on my system, it ran fine for a while, i tried uninstalling halo but it just uninstalled the uninstall.exe and let the whole game intact. weird - but might be relevant.

    Cheers


Comments

  • #2
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    hmmmm, that sounds serious...


  • #3
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Your onboard sound chipset (CMI8378 I presume) obviously requires that CPU to do quite a bit of the DSP work (most of them do). That said, it shouldn't cause the problems you're seeing. I presume you've tried getting an update version of the sound drivers?

    You could also check the motherboard manufacturers hhomepage to see if there is a BIOS/Firmware update with a fix for this specific problem.

    If you can't get the onboard sound working reliably then just disable it, remove the drivers and stick in a proper PCI sound card. You'll pick up an SBLive 5.1 for next to nothing.


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