audigy-gamer

[blink]

evening all,installed the sound card and have static in the background.speakers are just 2.1's.but the sound should still be clean right?i tried using their player and without .the os is win.2000 with sp2. on the card i used the jack farthest from the fire-wire.the speakers work fine in my other system.

thanks

[NooNoo]

Via chipset? Cordless phone nearby? Both cause static!

[blink]

thanks noonoo it does have a via set in there.will load new
hyperions when i get home.cordless is a room away.

[blink]

well put the new hyperions in with no difference.than moved the card to another slot.now i have no static but no sound.device mgr shows all is good;but the irq is 18 or 19??mobo is msi k7t266 pro2.

[jmcavoy]

I have the audigy2 platnum with win2k. I had the same problem with static, I updated the drivers and it fixed it.

[NooNoo]

Originally posted by blink
well put the new hyperions in with no difference.than moved the card to another slot.now i have no static but no sound.device mgr shows all is good;but the irq is 18 or 19??mobo is msi k7t266 pro2.

It is quite normal to have high irq numbers in ACPI compliant motherboards.

[blink]

update:still no sound but found where the static came from.in the mixer-advanced mode- there is a check box
for digital out only.i've also updated the drivers but still no luck.

do i really need their play center and other apps?

[NooNoo]

No, you just need the card drivers...

[confus-ed]

Originally posted by blink
update:still no sound but found where the static came from.in the mixer-advanced mode- there is a check box
for digital out only.i've also updated the drivers but still no luck....

You 'moved' the card in the middle of all this ? ... you need to completely uninstall all the drivers & re-apply once the card is where it ought to live ... then reapply hyperions after you've installed the s/c drivers ... hopefully that'll do it ... these are 'sensitive' to order of install (read the drivers are rubbish!)

(if you can find a newer bios for your mothrboard give that a whirl too ... I seem to remember that the original bios on these boards doesn't like sounblaster 'anything' !)

[Six Eyed Smily]

also check the speaker wire is not running near mains power leads or similar - if it has to cross power leads, it needs to do so at right angles.

[blink]

ok it looks like i'm in need of a bios flash.everything goes on a bootable correct?their site has instr.for using the c:.
the particulars: os--2000
mobo-msi -k7t266 pro 2--ms6380 ver 2.0
bios version 3.3 113001
should i put the flash to c:? where on the c:?www.msicomputer.com/support. worst case i'll get new
board.

[confus-ed]

BIOS FLASHING is DANGEROUS & can result in DAMAGE to the motherboard if applied incorrectly ! ....

By the looks blink, you've never flashed a motherboards bios before, so I've included the above warning ....

You should be able to find the bios you want From this MSI search ... if you need it ...

The download includes instructions on how to 'flash' ... READ them CAREFULLY ! ...

That said we haven't necessarily sorted out the issue even with our proposed bios flash ... You said earlier :-

but the irq is 18 or 19?

W2k can allocate IRQs up to 255 (theorectically , though how the hell you actually get that many is beyond me !) ... there are 16 'real' IRQs 0-15 available in bios & W2k can have virtual ones for 'shares' beyond that ... however anything like a sound card doesn't want one of these, too much cpu to device 'traffic' which can cause problems (just like you have now) ... The issue is what pci devices are in what slots ...

IRQ allocation is fairly simple, first come first served ! As you add devices each is allocated an irq by bios, when you've used all the spare ones (Generally 5 - this is what the audigy wants - 10 & 11 in a system with ACPI on) ... the 'tried & tested' method for getting IRQs 'right' is to pull every pci card you have, start with only vga & sound present, reboot then add back all the other devices, this ensures the maximum spare IRQs with no sharing for 'tricky' devices (those that don't really want to share) ...

Why creative have never produced a utility to make sure their cards don't share IRQs is beyond me ... they never seem 'happy' on anything but IRQ 5 on their own

[blink]

thanks confus-ed for the link it's the same one i found,they had a flash ver3.4/34 i think had something to with soundcard/pci slot.i'll remove everything/reinstall before trying the flash.