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| 94609 | 2002-10-30 08:15:00 | Over the past 3 years I have read this Magazine but have not read of any problems with Win2000 Pro sound issues - I must be doing something badly wrong. Since changing from Win98SE to Win2000 Pro 5 months ago my Athlon 750 with 392 Mb of RAM has developed a frequent (sometimes several second long) lockups and sound loops. This happens when running CD's, MP3's and Video clips through any software program. All works OK direct from CD and was not a problem with Win98SE were the Nvidia TNT2 display and Nvidia sound card were able to be used. Unfortunately the Nvidia sound card did not have a driver in Win2000 so I brought a 2 different PCI Audio cards but found an old Sound blaster card gave the best results. All the others hung up or would not load reliably at start up. I have tried removing Anti Virus, Media player, Quick time CD player, Office and Win2000 software (several times) as well as all the upgrades service pack 3 and patches I can find. I have as checked for things running in the background like memory dumps but see no conflicts. What gives? I like the way 2000 works on the internet but may be forced to go back to 98. |
Robert Pay (2391) | ||
| 94610 | 2002-10-30 08:38:00 | Sounds like (bad pun) you could have a problem with the motherboard chipset not liking your soundcard. I had a similiar problem with an aureal vortex 1, windows 2000 and a via-based motherboard (amd processor). Basically, it would work until you played games, when the whole system would lock up after a few seconds. A soundblaster live card seemed not to suffer from this particular problem. You should certainly use the latest via-4-in-1 drivers or amd drivers and try and see if there is a motherboard bios upgrade they may fix the problem. Check the PCI latency and acpi settings in the bios as well. Exactly what cards did you try? |
gibler (49) | ||
| 94611 | 2002-11-03 07:10:00 | One card was an FM801 and the other was a SM5.1 audio. The original was a PCI64B-Q3D. I have the software for a BIOS upgrade but have not found a way to make a system disk that works with WIN2000. My best guess is it has something to do with the compression that NTFS uses. |
Robert Pay (2391) | ||
| 94612 | 2002-11-03 08:02:00 | Check the MS hardware compatability list - not all hardware works with MS NT based operating systems. The first 'reasonable" indicator is no drivers for the hardware. Second and third items (search.support.microsoft.com) |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 94613 | 2003-03-11 06:23:00 | Solved problem by changing to XP | Robert Pay (2391) | ||
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