Audigy slows computer

ogwain · Aug 30, 2005, 12:22 PM

Hi all,

This is my 1st post to this excellent forum!

I have an Audigy SB0090 card on a MSI KT4A-v motherboard.

I put the system together a few months ago after the death of my old board; however, I soon realised that the whole thing was running slow.

I ran several bench marks & found that the Athalon +2600 was good, but the disk access was very poor. I stripped the system & found that it is in fact the Audigy that is dragging everything down. With the card removed the computer flys!

With the Audigy card installed, MS Word takes 30secs to fire up; with the card removed it takes less than 1sec.

Does anyone have an idea?

Cheers

Ogwain

theonlybabyface · Aug 30, 2005, 04:59 PM

What slot on the mobo did you have your soundcard in? That slot may have been sharing an IRQ with something else causing the delay. Look in your manual to see what slot is best to avoid IRQ sharing. Probably slot 5.....

ogwain · Sep 4, 2005, 12:05 PM

Many, many thanks! Slot 5 fixed the problem.

Cheers!

Ogwain

Aug 30, 2005, 12:22 PM	#1
ogwain DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Audigy slows computer Hi all, This is my 1st post to this excellent forum! I have an Audigy SB0090 card on a MSI KT4A-v motherboard. I put the system together a few months ago after the death of my old board; however, I soon realised that the whole thing was running slow. I ran several bench marks & found that the Athalon +2600 was good, but the disk access was very poor. I stripped the system & found that it is in fact the Audigy that is dragging everything down. With the card removed the computer flys! With the Audigy card installed, MS Word takes 30secs to fire up; with the card removed it takes less than 1sec. Does anyone have an idea? Cheers Ogwain

Aug 30, 2005, 04:59 PM	#2
theonlybabyface GO CANUCKS GO!!! Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 129 Rep Power: 0	What slot on the mobo did you have your soundcard in? That slot may have been sharing an IRQ with something else causing the delay. Look in your manual to see what slot is best to avoid IRQ sharing. Probably slot 5..... __________________ [COLOR=Silver]MY MACHINE : Intel Q6600 \| ASUS Maximus Formula \| 4 x 1GB Team Xtreem DDR2-800 \| EVGA 8800GTS "G92" \| X-Fi Platinum \| Enermax Infiniti 720 \| Samsung 224BW KIDS MACHINE : Intel Xeon 3060 \| Intel BadaXe2 \| 2 x 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 \| BFG 8800GT OC \| Audigy 2 ZS \| OCZ GameXStream 850 \| [/COLOR][COLOR=Silver]Samsung 204B[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=dimgray][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][/COLOR]

Sep 4, 2005, 12:05 PM	Thread Starter #3
ogwain DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Many, many thanks! Slot 5 fixed the problem. Cheers! Ogwain