HELP With creative x-fi fatality

gangsterant16 · Oct 26, 2005, 09:37 PM

HELP PLEASE i have the x-fi fatality card and when ever i boot on my pc the my mp3 or any type of music files are scrachy and distorted and it only happens when the computer is doing something like if im scrolling down on a website what could be wrong please help immidiedtly the only way i fix the problem is i have to restart the computer after the first boot then it works fine but if i shut down and turn on its scrachy again!!! help

Richie-b · Oct 26, 2005, 09:55 PM

There is a driver update on the creative website for the X-Fi cards that could help.
I had a few issues with my xtreme music card and the update sorted it out

gangsterant16 · Oct 26, 2005, 10:12 PM

which update is it

Richie-b · Oct 26, 2005, 10:21 PM

2.07.0003 dated Aug 22 05

gangsterant16 · Oct 26, 2005, 10:27 PM

ok thanx man did u have the same issue or what o and do u have ur card connected 2 power man?

Richie-b · Oct 26, 2005, 11:18 PM

No didn't have the same issue, Some of the apps didn't work correctly and the card wouldn't work in quake4.
I don't have the card connected to power at the moment, spotted the connector on the board but didn't want to try it incase it wasn't for power as the manual didn't say to connect the board to power.

gangsterant16 · Oct 27, 2005, 01:49 AM

do you think i should take off the connecter then cause im afraid it might burn my card

**dj_stick** · Oct 27, 2005, 02:19 AM

all x-fi cards have the AD_LINK port on the rear don't they? if so that power connector is for when you plug the external i/o box

gangsterant16 · Oct 27, 2005, 02:25 AM

i have the i/o box in one of the cd slot's and its connected to floppy power but the soundcard also has a floppy power connector so should that card be powerd 2 or what?

**dj_stick** · Oct 27, 2005, 02:40 AM

no your PCI card will not need the power, as it's only for the external module

it looks like pretty much all of the x-fi cards are the same, with the capability of upgrading to both the external AND the internal modules from the base card… unlike the audigy 2 series…

gangsterant16 · Oct 28, 2005, 01:34 AM

well my sound is still messed up and i can't find no solution 2 it im going nuts please somebody find a solutino fr me

**dj_stick** · Oct 28, 2005, 05:29 AM

feel it may be your motherboard

try a new PCI slot

piiooo · Oct 28, 2005, 05:30 AM

this is what you should do, one step at the time, proceed to the next step if no improvement:
1 make sure that your old sound card drivers are uninstalled. if you were using onboard audio make sure it is now disabled in bios
2 uninstall and install again the x-fi drivers
3 get the latest motherboard drivers from asus site
4 flash bios to the latest version
good luck

gangsterant16 · Oct 28, 2005, 01:05 PM

did all of that still is messed up

piiooo · Oct 29, 2005, 06:06 AM

seek help on asus forum, maybe somebody from there had a similar experience.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Oct 29, 2005, 02:47 PM

Sounds like you've got a problem with "EMI" (eletro magnetic interferance)
but also could be a extermly overloaded / under powered power supply.

gangsterant16 · Oct 29, 2005, 03:00 PM

so i can be my power supply how is that possible i have 550watts psu everyone is telling me its because my chipset is via

The_Neon_Cowboy · Oct 29, 2005, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gangsterant16

so i can be my power supply how is that possible i have 550watts psu everyone is telling me its because my chipset is via

More likely EMI but I my self have seen cases where the PSU was barely
cutting it and one of the key stand out was when useing the mouse scrooll
I'd hear a "noise" like I could hear the scrool the nose was comeing from the
PSU. The PSU being the beating heart of any system, with out a good one
you can have al sorts of unexplainable problems. May not be in your case
I'd have to look at it my self to know. But It's a possablity that should be
considerd.

EMI being the other likely hood

External:
Run around and unplug everything with in say 10 feet that isn't your PC
see if you problem goes away... Make sure you power cables and data cables
pass each other at right angles, power lines running along side data lines can
and will intoduce interfereance. You could have EMI comeing in from your wall
outlet and in a case like that you'd need a UPS (and I'd say it pretty rare).....
not to mention you PSU would take the brunt of the problem in a case like that.
You'd kow if your power company has issues... if "brown outs" etc would be in
you freqently used vocabulary...

Internal
Try useing the EMI features on you motherbord, Make sure you've got the
latest bios for you board. Turn on an optuion in you bios called "Spread Spectrum"
or sumlar wich varries the freqency used by the system buss so that there is less
EMI emited from your system buss. http://www.rojakpot.com/showFreeBOG....ng=0&bogno=133

Also the arangement of you PCI cards, or the PCI slot used can have an effect.
Devices or other pci cards could be the problem...

There are alot of "possabilities" but it going to be up to you to figure out....
sound cards are shot sheilded from EMI, that way alot of makers putting on
the better ship on mother board makw it a serate moduale, that way there
can be a whole nother layer of board to help insolate from interferaence...

gangsterant16 · Oct 29, 2005, 03:45 PM

thanx for the help but remember what i said it only happens on first boot after i restart it works perfect but if i ever shut down for more then 10mins as soon as i boot it will sound messed up again till i restart

The_Neon_Cowboy · Oct 29, 2005, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gangsterant16

thanx for the help but remember what i said it only happens on first boot after i restart it works perfect but if i ever shut down for more then 10mins as soon as i boot it will sound messed up again till i restart

Hmmm ... I know and thats very stange ,

Keep at it and you can figure it out. Just trying to throw some
more ideas your way as there are so many things to consider.
where there is a will there is a way... But you trouble shooting
one of the worst / most annoying problems you can run into...

Could even be a problem with the card for all we know.
wich reminds me Also Try contacting creatives support and see
what they say....

gangsterant16 · Nov 2, 2005, 10:23 PM

also i just noticed today i can hear very low squeak like sound coming from the computer it self when i scroll with my mouse with the scroll wheel wth is that about?

gangsterant16 · Nov 9, 2005, 10:15 PM

can any body have any idea i tried everything can it be the defaulty motherboard cause it works fine on my mothers and my other pc so wth!!! its so agrivating

gangsterant16 · Nov 9, 2005, 10:15 PM

o and i tried with a different power supply and still same problem

Oct 26, 2005, 09:37 PM	#1
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	HELP With creative x-fi fatality HELP PLEASE i have the x-fi fatality card and when ever i boot on my pc the my mp3 or any type of music files are scrachy and distorted and it only happens when the computer is doing something like if im scrolling down on a website what could be wrong please help immidiedtly the only way i fix the problem is i have to restart the computer after the first boot then it works fine but if i shut down and turn on its scrachy again!!! help __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Oct 26, 2005, 10:12 PM	Thread Starter #3
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	which update is it __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Oct 26, 2005, 10:27 PM	Thread Starter #5
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	ok thanx man did u have the same issue or what o and do u have ur card connected 2 power man? __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Oct 27, 2005, 01:49 AM	Thread Starter #7
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	do you think i should take off the connecter then cause im afraid it might burn my card __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Oct 27, 2005, 02:25 AM	Thread Starter #9
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	i have the i/o box in one of the cd slot's and its connected to floppy power but the soundcard also has a floppy power connector so should that card be powerd 2 or what? __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Oct 26, 2005, 09:55 PM	#2
Richie-b In the corner Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the corner Posts: 106 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	There is a driver update on the creative website for the X-Fi cards that could help. I had a few issues with my xtreme music card and the update sorted it out

Oct 26, 2005, 10:21 PM	#4
Richie-b In the corner Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the corner Posts: 106 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	2.07.0003 dated Aug 22 05

Oct 26, 2005, 11:18 PM	#6
Richie-b In the corner Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the corner Posts: 106 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	No didn't have the same issue, Some of the apps didn't work correctly and the card wouldn't work in quake4. I don't have the card connected to power at the moment, spotted the connector on the board but didn't want to try it incase it wasn't for power as the manual didn't say to connect the board to power.

Oct 28, 2005, 01:34 AM	Thread Starter #11
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	well my sound is still messed up and i can't find no solution 2 it im going nuts please somebody find a solutino fr me __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Oct 28, 2005, 05:30 AM	#13
piiooo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	this is what you should do, one step at the time, proceed to the next step if no improvement: 1 make sure that your old sound card drivers are uninstalled. if you were using onboard audio make sure it is now disabled in bios 2 uninstall and install again the x-fi drivers 3 get the latest motherboard drivers from asus site 4 flash bios to the latest version good luck

Oct 28, 2005, 01:05 PM	Thread Starter #14
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	did all of that still is messed up __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Oct 29, 2005, 06:06 AM	#15
piiooo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	seek help on asus forum, maybe somebody from there had a similar experience.

Oct 29, 2005, 02:47 PM	#16
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	Sounds like you've got a problem with "EMI" (eletro magnetic interferance) but also could be a extermly overloaded / under powered power supply. __________________

Oct 29, 2005, 03:00 PM	Thread Starter #17
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	so i can be my power supply how is that possible i have 550watts psu everyone is telling me its because my chipset is via __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Oct 29, 2005, 03:45 PM	Thread Starter #19
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	thanx for the help but remember what i said it only happens on first boot after i restart it works perfect but if i ever shut down for more then 10mins as soon as i boot it will sound messed up again till i restart __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Nov 2, 2005, 10:23 PM	Thread Starter #21
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	also i just noticed today i can hear very low squeak like sound coming from the computer it self when i scroll with my mouse with the scroll wheel wth is that about? __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Nov 9, 2005, 10:15 PM	Thread Starter #22
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	can any body have any idea i tried everything can it be the defaulty motherboard cause it works fine on my mothers and my other pc so wth!!! its so agrivating __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Nov 9, 2005, 10:15 PM	Thread Starter #23
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	o and i tried with a different power supply and still same problem __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)