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| Thread ID: 28662 | 2002-12-27 08:54:00 | Surround Sound and PCI Slots not workin..... | Jams (1051) | Press F1 |
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| 109262 | 2002-12-27 08:54:00 | Hey Gang Today i have just been spendin up with my christmas money, so i decied to step up the sound quality up on my PC buy purchasing a CMI8738/C3DX sound card from Dick Smith electronics and a Creative Labs. Cambridge SW320 speaker system, and man this little baby can pack the pucnh. BUT!!! upon installing the sound card 2 of my PCI slots have seem to of stoped working. by this i mean that when a card is insterted into one of the two malfunctioning PCI slots my machione seems to reboot itself after about 10 seconds from when it has fully loaded, AND!!! the Sound card supports 5.1 surround sound but when i insert the driver CD to install this featrure it says that i do not own one of there chipsets THAT I HAVE JUST BROUGHT!!! and i would not be able to benifit from the drivers supplied on the CD. here are my specs dual boot with WinXp and WinNT 2000 Pro AMD XP atlon 1800+ 256 DDR 60GIG Baracuda HDD Geforce 2 MX 400 Please help!!! Thanks James Lamb.... |
Jams (1051) | ||
| 109263 | 2002-12-28 07:49:00 | Hi, I don't really like the Cmedia sound cards, i have an intergrated 6channel card on my 'beast' which is decent quality, but i have driver problems occassionally. I have a PCI 4channel card for one of my other machines and the drivers for it, including updated ones are sloppy, crashing, poor documentation etc etc. Anyways i think you'll find that ur 5.1 card is 6 channel so look on the CD for something in the CMI-8738-4-6CH folder As for your PCI slot problems i don't really know, you could try swapping all your cards into different slots. Or see if there are any conflicts of IRQ's in windows (goto system, and check there) I suspect it isn't a power problem cos the card doesn't suck power. If those two slots don't seem to work with that card try sticking in another one e.g. ur modem etc. and check if it works. Other wise if it is still under warrenty take it back and get them to check if it is the PCI slots hope this helps a bit - David |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 109264 | 2002-12-28 08:47:00 | I have a PCI soundcard with the CMI8738 chipset. I tried it in my Dell 233 pc and it just would not work (the motherboard has on board sound which may have caused a problem). I then tried my Pentium 166 and got it going but had to try a couple of PCI slots before Windows would play the game. Its now in my Pentium III 450 and it normally goes fine (even Linux recognises it!). | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 109265 | 2002-12-28 09:17:00 | Hi Jams: For what it's worth, I recall that the Silicon Chip magazine a while ago, when describing an AMD system had problems if the soundcard was inserted in the slot next to the AGP slot. They suggested if possible to leave that slot empty, and move the soundcard to another slot. I followed that advice & have had no problems. But, I guess that maybe or maybe not the answer to your problem. Goodluck, Cheers.. |
Bazza (407) | ||
| 109266 | 2002-12-28 10:46:00 | I think the first (next to AGP) PCI slot and the AGP Port use the same IRQ. Haven't had to deal with the problem so far but I would leave it empty if possible. Could cause major havoc... Your Device Manager should show up any conflicts/sharing problems like that. |
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