Sound Issue (SBlive!, steady tone when sound plays)

[Karl Blessing]

I recently bought a new motherboard/Cpu(tbird 1ghtz) , but I Did not reinstall windows 2000 (it's previous board was an Asus A7V Kt133, the new board is a Soyo Kt133, same chipset basically) basically , I can play audio (winamp, etc) just fine for about an hour or so, then all the sudden, my speakers only make this steady tone like a very long beep, and from that moment on (until I Reboot) , it makes this steady tone, with games though it happens much quicker, the audio either becomes dead, or that steady tone as soon as I Start up a DX or OGL Game. I Disabled the onboard audio on the motherboard, but this doesnt seem to help. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[xscape]

Have you got a joystick plugged in? Sounds strange but a mate of mine had a problem with the quality of his SBlive going right down when using a joystick.

 

[Karl Blessing]

nope, no game devices connected. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[Karl Blessing]

I'm wondering, if I just reinstall Win2k from scratch it might fix it, because I did mention, I changed motherboards without reinstalling windows, even tho they are same chipset, the new motherboard had Onboard Audio, the drivers were installed, but I later disabled the audio in the bios, but never removed the drivers, so a clean install might fix this, I am not sure, I'll wait for further sugestions. ( I want to install Win2k onto my ATA/100 anyhow, it's on my ATA/66 at the moment, since the previous motherboard had the ATA/100 support on a seperate channel, treated as a SCSI Drive, so I couldnt install Win2k on it, now I can, since the bios treats ATA/100 like any other HDD) Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[Guest_imported]

Just and idea, but you might want to try swapping the PCI slot your SB is in. In my board (VIA Chipset - Abit KT7A RAID) the PCI slot 5 shares an IRQ with the IDE controller. So if your PCI card doesn't allow IRQ sharing then you may have problems. Also some OS's don't support IRQ sharing (I know NT doesn't but not sure about 2000). This probably doesn't help at all but it's worth shifting your cards around anyway. You can, I think, reset the BIOS settings for PnP after you've swapped your cards around so that when Windows restarts it is forced to redetect the PCI cards so you can then reinstall the drivers. It's worth a try anyway!

 

[Karl Blessing]

hmm, I reinstalled windows (this time to my ATA/100 drive, much faster) installed the typical stuff, Via 4in1, Nvidia drivers, SBLive! Drivers, etc, installed winamp, DX8 etc, everything seems to be fine now, games run fine as well.

I guess it just really threw windows off when it had duplicate drivers Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}