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MB and Audio advice, please - integration of APU and codec
I've recently put my stepson's old ASUS NForce-based (A7N266-VM) motherboard
in my computer (having heat problems with my previous MSI board. I was getting a lot of sound stuttering withe the onboard audio (MCP-D southbridge and Realtek ALC 650 audio module) so I installed an old Phillips Seismic Edge soundcard I had laying around. It's better, but still choppy. Now, here's where I *think* the problem is coming from. When I disabled the onboard sound, I also removed the soundstorm drivers, thinking that they were now superfluous, since I had the sound card. In research the possiblity of buying an Audigy 2 (b/c Toms Hardware says it has the second least CPU load - Least being (you guessed it) the NForce2 APU) vs. buying an NForce2 based board, I noticed that the NForce2 boards would reference AC'97 sound, Realtek ALC650 (which my current board has) in the same paragraph as referencing the NForce2 APU. Further reading suggested that the APU would work in conjunction with the AC'97 or whatever sound - idea being that the APU does the work in hardware, and then the AC'97 or Realtek ALC650 converts the digital into analogue and sends it to the speakers.... First question - Have I got the above correct? Is that how it works? Second question - Do I then need to re-install the APU and soundstorm drivers so that they will handle some of the work of the Phillips card? (or does the built in APU only work with the built in sound?) Thanks, confused and longing for simpler days |
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Excuse me, I didn't disable soundstorm or the control applet, I disabled the
audio MPU thing and the dolby digital thing in the control panel. I just re-enabled them and rebooted. The computer re-installed the "Nvidia(r)nforce(TM) MCP Audio Processing Unit (Doby" and the "Nvidia(r)nforce(TM) Audio Codec Interface" I discovered I had to go to properties and disable the Nvidia audio codec interface to get sound. I haven't tried the stuttering games to see if that helped yet, so any of you more experienced folks, I'd appreciate your input. "Jay Williams" wrote in message news:SByQb.14020$Ue.3260@lakeread03... I've recently put my stepson's old ASUS NForce-based (A7N266-VM) motherboard in my computer (having heat problems with my previous MSI board. I was getting a lot of sound stuttering withe the onboard audio (MCP-D southbridge and Realtek ALC 650 audio module) so I installed an old Phillips Seismic Edge soundcard I had laying around. It's better, but still choppy. Now, here's where I *think* the problem is coming from. When I disabled the onboard sound, I also removed the soundstorm drivers, thinking that they were now superfluous, since I had the sound card. In research the possiblity of buying an Audigy 2 (b/c Toms Hardware says it has the second least CPU load - Least being (you guessed it) the NForce2 APU) vs. buying an NForce2 based board, I noticed that the NForce2 boards would reference AC'97 sound, Realtek ALC650 (which my current board has) in the same paragraph as referencing the NForce2 APU. Further reading suggested that the APU would work in conjunction with the AC'97 or whatever sound - idea being that the APU does the work in hardware, and then the AC'97 or Realtek ALC650 converts the digital into analogue and sends it to the speakers.... First question - Have I got the above correct? Is that how it works? Second question - Do I then need to re-install the APU and soundstorm drivers so that they will handle some of the work of the Phillips card? (or does the built in APU only work with the built in sound?) Thanks, confused and longing for simpler days |
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In article KUyQb.14021$Ue.10708@lakeread03, Jay Williams says...
Excuse me, I didn't disable soundstorm or the control applet, I disabled the audio MPU thing and the dolby digital thing in the control panel. I just re-enabled them and rebooted. The computer re-installed the "Nvidia(r)nforce(TM) MCP Audio Processing Unit (Doby" and the "Nvidia(r)nforce(TM) Audio Codec Interface" I discovered I had to go to properties and disable the Nvidia audio codec interface to get sound. I haven't tried the stuttering games to see if that helped yet, so any of you more experienced folks, I'd appreciate your input. "Jay Williams" wrote in message news:SByQb.14020$Ue.3260@lakeread03... I've recently put my stepson's old ASUS NForce-based (A7N266-VM) motherboard in my computer (having heat problems with my previous MSI board. I was getting a lot of sound stuttering withe the onboard audio (MCP-D southbridge and Realtek ALC 650 audio module) so I installed an old Phillips Seismic Edge soundcard I had laying around. It's better, but still choppy. Now, here's where I *think* the problem is coming from. When I disabled the onboard sound, I also removed the soundstorm drivers, thinking that they were now superfluous, since I had the sound card. In research the possiblity of buying an Audigy 2 (b/c Toms Hardware says it has the second least CPU load - Least being (you guessed it) the NForce2 APU) vs. buying an NForce2 based board, I noticed that the NForce2 boards would reference AC'97 sound, Realtek ALC650 (which my current board has) in the same paragraph as referencing the NForce2 APU. Further reading suggested that the APU would work in conjunction with the AC'97 or whatever sound - idea being that the APU does the work in hardware, and then the AC'97 or Realtek ALC650 converts the digital into analogue and sends it to the speakers.... First question - Have I got the above correct? Is that how it works? Second question - Do I then need to re-install the APU and soundstorm drivers so that they will handle some of the work of the Phillips card? (or does the built in APU only work with the built in sound?) Thanks, confused and longing for simpler days When I installed my M-Audio 7.1 Revolution in my A7N8X-Dx here are the steps that I took. 1. Boot into the bios and disable the onboard sound. 2. Boot into safe mode and uninstall the Nvidia drivers in the sound device. 3. Before rebooting, go to control panel and add/remove and uninstall the Nvidia Soundstorm software and drivers. 4. Shut down and physically install the sound card, then boot up and install the software for the soundcard. Worked on the A7N8X so I think it would work on the A7n266. BTW....Revolution rocks!! Ed |
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