Really screwed up and annoying audio problem

silentbob17 · Jan 22, 2006, 02:51 AM

I put together a computer for my brother recently and it has a strange audio problem.

Whenever you have music playing (like an mp3) and launch something for the first time (like when something loads into memory for the first time since the last restart) it gets Matrix-style lag/distortion. I have a clip of it that I took with my mp3 player that you can listen to here (there's a lot near the end of the clip).

I thought it was the on-board sound that was to blame but the addition of a PCI sound card didn't solve anything.

What could be causing this?

silentbob17 · Jan 24, 2006, 12:25 AM

Bump... please listen to the clip

silentbob17 · Jan 26, 2006, 07:03 AM

bump

jiiteepee · Jan 26, 2006, 07:45 AM

All the normal actions:

- Disable the onboard sound.
- Update multimedia/audio player(s) you get these issues and A/V codecs.
- Increase the playback latency buffer (on player)
- Check if Hardware acceleration and SR conversion are set to 3/best quality (both sliders in rightmost position).
- Check if there are Conflict/IRQ shares --> if there are then disable un-needed controllers/devices (device manager).
- Increase PCI latency to 64 for sound device and decrease graphics (AGP) latency to 128 (for PCI Latency Tool, use google).

Update your motherboard BIOS, controller/device drivers, OS and Dx.

Check if there are un-wanted/needed processes running (stop those you do not need).

jiitee

silentbob17 · Jan 27, 2006, 12:56 AM

Alright, I'll try a few of those that I haven't already... did you listen to the clip I provided? What does it sound like is happening?

Jan 22, 2006, 02:51 AM	#1
silentbob17 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 159 Rep Power: 0	Really screwed up and annoying audio problem I put together a computer for my brother recently and it has a strange audio problem. Whenever you have music playing (like an mp3) and launch something for the first time (like when something loads into memory for the first time since the last restart) it gets Matrix-style lag/distortion. I have a clip of it that I took with my mp3 player that you can listen to here (there's a lot near the end of the clip). I thought it was the on-board sound that was to blame but the addition of a PCI sound card didn't solve anything. What could be causing this? __________________ Overclocking: if it's not on fire, it can go higher! MoBo: ASUS M2N-E CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ RAM: 4GB OCZ Platinum XTC REV.2 PC2-6400 CL4-4-4-15 Video: EVGA E-GEFORCE 8800 GTS 320MB Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Gamer 24BIT Power Supply: OCZ GameXStream 600W silentbob17 on xFire Hit-Or-Miss <--- Check this out Last edited by silentbob17; Jan 22, 2006 at 02:57 AM.

Jan 24, 2006, 12:25 AM	Thread Starter #2
silentbob17 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 159 Rep Power: 0	Bump... please listen to the clip __________________ Overclocking: if it's not on fire, it can go higher! MoBo: ASUS M2N-E CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ RAM: 4GB OCZ Platinum XTC REV.2 PC2-6400 CL4-4-4-15 Video: EVGA E-GEFORCE 8800 GTS 320MB Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Gamer 24BIT Power Supply: OCZ GameXStream 600W silentbob17 on xFire Hit-Or-Miss <--- Check this out

Jan 26, 2006, 07:03 AM	Thread Starter #3
silentbob17 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 159 Rep Power: 0	bump __________________ Overclocking: if it's not on fire, it can go higher! MoBo: ASUS M2N-E CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ RAM: 4GB OCZ Platinum XTC REV.2 PC2-6400 CL4-4-4-15 Video: EVGA E-GEFORCE 8800 GTS 320MB Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Gamer 24BIT Power Supply: OCZ GameXStream 600W silentbob17 on xFire Hit-Or-Miss <--- Check this out

Jan 27, 2006, 12:56 AM	Thread Starter #5
silentbob17 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 159 Rep Power: 0	Alright, I'll try a few of those that I haven't already... did you listen to the clip I provided? What does it sound like is happening? __________________ Overclocking: if it's not on fire, it can go higher! MoBo: ASUS M2N-E CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ RAM: 4GB OCZ Platinum XTC REV.2 PC2-6400 CL4-4-4-15 Video: EVGA E-GEFORCE 8800 GTS 320MB Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Gamer 24BIT Power Supply: OCZ GameXStream 600W silentbob17 on xFire Hit-Or-Miss <--- Check this out

Jan 26, 2006, 07:45 AM	#4
jiiteepee HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: FI Posts: 400 Rep Power: 0	All the normal actions: - Disable the onboard sound. - Update multimedia/audio player(s) you get these issues and A/V codecs. - Increase the playback latency buffer (on player) - Check if Hardware acceleration and SR conversion are set to 3/best quality (both sliders in rightmost position). - Check if there are Conflict/IRQ shares --> if there are then disable un-needed controllers/devices (device manager). - Increase PCI latency to 64 for sound device and decrease graphics (AGP) latency to 128 (for PCI Latency Tool, use google). Update your motherboard BIOS, controller/device drivers, OS and Dx. Check if there are un-wanted/needed processes running (stop those you do not need). jiitee