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Return of the VIA-SBLive Crackling Curse
AMD Duron 800, 256MB SDRAM, Asus A7VPro w/VIA chipset, Win2000 Pro, SBLive
(MP3+, though it's seen as a "value"), two IDE HDs (both on channel 0, master/slave), Lite-On LTR-32125W CDRW (channel 1, cable select). I have recently upgraded the NIC in the system from an old 3C509 Combo to a new 3Com 3C590, so to get the obvious benefits of 100Mb/s, and a four-port Firewire card (TI OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller). In the process of upgrading the NIC I encountered "shadow" devices' installations left over from previous removals/uninstallations (View Hidden Devices), which obfuscated the NIC's access to the net. These have been uninstalled without trouble, at which point the NIC was fully functional. Before I'd discovered the View Hidden Devices method, though, there was a good amount of card switching slots-wise. End result has everything running apparently fine - with the exception of crackling, which has returned to this PC after four years. Previous to the Lite-On CDRW the CDRW was a SCSI-based Yamaha 4416s - the Adaptec SCSI card was a pain in the tail to configure AND keep it out of the way of other devices, but I *did* get it to eventually behave. Mind you I lived in fear and loathing of any hardware changes while the SCSI element was present, and the speed of the new unit was also a joy. So I figured with the SCSI card gone it'd be a breeze. Not so. I've gotten ALL the Creative drivers/programs reinstalled and updated, and still problems with the crackling. I find it's worse when disk access is occurring, and even worse when it's a WAV and not an MP3 playing. For instance I'll be playing an MP3 with no crackling, then start reading the hard drive - and the pops begin. I've updated all the VIA programs, AND set the latency to everything from 0 to 32, no change. Suggestions beyond playing musical card slots? Thanks. -- Stephen Goodman * Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff * http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack |
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I've had that problem in the past and uninstalled and reinstalled drivers
and card to no avail, then I clicked on the Restore Defaults link in the Creative Program group and hey presto , crackles gone. Might work, worth a try. -- Paul.Woodsford Remove **NOSPAM** to reply. "S.P. Goodman" wrote in message ... AMD Duron 800, 256MB SDRAM, Asus A7VPro w/VIA chipset, Win2000 Pro, SBLive (MP3+, though it's seen as a "value"), two IDE HDs (both on channel 0, master/slave), Lite-On LTR-32125W CDRW (channel 1, cable select). I have recently upgraded the NIC in the system from an old 3C509 Combo to a new 3Com 3C590, so to get the obvious benefits of 100Mb/s, and a four-port Firewire card (TI OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller). In the process of upgrading the NIC I encountered "shadow" devices' installations left over from previous removals/uninstallations (View Hidden Devices), which obfuscated the NIC's access to the net. These have been uninstalled without trouble, at which point the NIC was fully functional. Before I'd discovered the View Hidden Devices method, though, there was a good amount of card switching slots-wise. End result has everything running apparently fine - with the exception of crackling, which has returned to this PC after four years. Previous to the Lite-On CDRW the CDRW was a SCSI-based Yamaha 4416s - the Adaptec SCSI card was a pain in the tail to configure AND keep it out of the way of other devices, but I *did* get it to eventually behave. Mind you I lived in fear and loathing of any hardware changes while the SCSI element was present, and the speed of the new unit was also a joy. So I figured with the SCSI card gone it'd be a breeze. Not so. I've gotten ALL the Creative drivers/programs reinstalled and updated, and still problems with the crackling. I find it's worse when disk access is occurring, and even worse when it's a WAV and not an MP3 playing. For instance I'll be playing an MP3 with no crackling, then start reading the hard drive - and the pops begin. I've updated all the VIA programs, AND set the latency to everything from 0 to 32, no change. Suggestions beyond playing musical card slots? Thanks. -- Stephen Goodman * Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff * http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.776 / Virus Database: 523 - Release Date: 12/10/2004 |
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"Paul Woodsford" wrote in message ... I've had that problem in the past and uninstalled and reinstalled drivers and card to no avail, then I clicked on the Restore Defaults link in the Creative Program group and hey presto , crackles gone. Might work, worth a try. Alas, no. I must admit that in all me years of using SB's I've never needed to do this. No prompt to reboot. Hm. Let's see. (after rebooting) Nah, no difference. If I begin more than cursory activity on either IDE drive, it's cracks and pops, no pattern or rhythm, same with mp3's or audio cd's. rant Ugh! Bloody PnP. I wish Win 2000 would allow one to manually set the IRQs as IRQ 9 is presently shared by the SBLive, ACPI-Compliant System, my ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro (AGP), both USB host controllers, a PCI Firewire card, and my 3Com NIC. With IRQs 5, 7, 10 and 11 open it's really overkill, isn't it? Who the heck changes their video card as often as they change their socks? Some of you out there should probably not answer that one. /rant Anyway, all the above devices' settings are greyed out and unchangeable, and I'm admin-creator of the @#% thing. Thanks for persevering though. What's really annoying about this is that I remember everyone else having this problem back in 2000, and while I too experienced the dreaded popping, it was then resolved in most cases with a VIA drivers update. Not so this time. Any other tips? -- Paul.Woodsford Remove **NOSPAM** to reply. "S.P. Goodman" wrote in message ... AMD Duron 800, 256MB SDRAM, Asus A7VPro w/VIA chipset, Win2000 Pro, SBLive (MP3+, though it's seen as a "value"), two IDE HDs (both on channel 0, master/slave), Lite-On LTR-32125W CDRW (channel 1, cable select). I have recently upgraded the NIC in the system from an old 3C509 Combo to a new 3Com 3C590, so to get the obvious benefits of 100Mb/s, and a four-port Firewire card (TI OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller). In the process of upgrading the NIC I encountered "shadow" devices' installations left over from previous removals/uninstallations (View Hidden Devices), which obfuscated the NIC's access to the net. These have been uninstalled without trouble, at which point the NIC was fully functional. Before I'd discovered the View Hidden Devices method, though, there was a good amount of card switching slots-wise. End result has everything running apparently fine - with the exception of crackling, which has returned to this PC after four years. Previous to the Lite-On CDRW the CDRW was a SCSI-based Yamaha 4416s - the Adaptec SCSI card was a pain in the tail to configure AND keep it out of the way of other devices, but I *did* get it to eventually behave. Mind you I lived in fear and loathing of any hardware changes while the SCSI element was present, and the speed of the new unit was also a joy. So I figured with the SCSI card gone it'd be a breeze. Not so. I've gotten ALL the Creative drivers/programs reinstalled and updated, and still problems with the crackling. I find it's worse when disk access is occurring, and even worse when it's a WAV and not an MP3 playing. For instance I'll be playing an MP3 with no crackling, then start reading the hard drive - and the pops begin. I've updated all the VIA programs, AND set the latency to everything from 0 to 32, no change. Suggestions beyond playing musical card slots? Thanks. -- Stephen Goodman * Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff * http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.776 / Virus Database: 523 - Release Date: 12/10/2004 |
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Nah, no difference. If I begin more than cursory activity on either IDE drive, it's cracks and pops, no pattern or rhythm, same with mp3's or audio cd's. Your mobo may need a bios flash and/or updated chipset drivers, hardware bugs in the PCI bridge of certain VIA chipsets interact with borderline behavior by the ET10k1 chip on at least some revision SBLives.. You said you had VIA? If so, download the latest hyperion driver pack from their site (viaarena.com I think, or else just via.com) for the latter.. Also, have you changed anything in your bios setup recently? It may be worth restoring defaults there too just to be sure. Ugh! Bloody PnP. I wish Win 2000 would allow one to manually set the IRQs Why would you want to do that? Fiddling with IRQs is just pointless, better to let PNP deal with that mess. With IRQs 5, 7, 10 and 11 open it's really overkill, isn't it? Why? |
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"Lenny" wrote in message ... Nah, no difference. If I begin more than cursory activity on either IDE drive, it's cracks and pops, no pattern or rhythm, same with mp3's or audio cd's. Your mobo may need a bios flash and/or updated chipset drivers hardware bugs in the PCI bridge of certain VIA chipsets interact with borderline behavior by the ET10k1 chip on at least some revision SBLives.. You said you had VIA? If so, download the latest hyperion driver pack from their site (viaarena.com I think, or else just via.com) for the latter.. Yep. First thing I did was the new VIA Hyperion (aka All-in-One) update. Also, have you changed anything in your bios setup recently? It may be worth restoring defaults there too just to be sure. All I did was swap a 10Mb/s for a 100Mb/s one. The addition of a IEEE 1394 (firewire) card brought no change. Ugh! Bloody PnP. I wish Win 2000 would allow one to manually set the IRQs Why would you want to do that? Fiddling with IRQs is just pointless, better to let PNP deal with that mess. One doesn't "fiddle" with IRQs. One sets them, and then no fiddling necessary. And no crackling either! With IRQs 5, 7, 10 and 11 open it's really overkill, isn't it? Why? IRQ spaces were put there to be used so that the OS wouldn't be weighed down by having to perform that same management. PnP puts just about everything on IRQ 9 and one has to wonder why anyone would want to manage the IRQ sharing of five or more devices when the same number of IRQs are available for assignment. It takes cycles away from work the CPU (and the CPUs of the cards) could otherwise be doing. Stutters, pops and clicks are just one result when the SBLive/ET10k1 get frequently interrupted by IRQ grabbing. My problem is something to do with a relationship between hard disk access and the SBLive. I suspect yet another round of Musical PCI slots is in my future. -- Stephen Goodman * Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff * http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack |
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Have you tried to reinstall Windows ?
"S.P. Goodman" wrote in message ... AMD Duron 800, 256MB SDRAM, Asus A7VPro w/VIA chipset, Win2000 Pro, SBLive (MP3+, though it's seen as a "value"), two IDE HDs (both on channel 0, master/slave), Lite-On LTR-32125W CDRW (channel 1, cable select). I have recently upgraded the NIC in the system from an old 3C509 Combo to a new 3Com 3C590, so to get the obvious benefits of 100Mb/s, and a four-port Firewire card (TI OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller). In the process of upgrading the NIC I encountered "shadow" devices' installations left over from previous removals/uninstallations (View Hidden Devices), which obfuscated the NIC's access to the net. These have been uninstalled without trouble, at which point the NIC was fully functional. Before I'd discovered the View Hidden Devices method, though, there was a good amount of card switching slots-wise. End result has everything running apparently fine - with the exception of crackling, which has returned to this PC after four years. Previous to the Lite-On CDRW the CDRW was a SCSI-based Yamaha 4416s - the Adaptec SCSI card was a pain in the tail to configure AND keep it out of the way of other devices, but I *did* get it to eventually behave. Mind you I lived in fear and loathing of any hardware changes while the SCSI element was present, and the speed of the new unit was also a joy. So I figured with the SCSI card gone it'd be a breeze. Not so. I've gotten ALL the Creative drivers/programs reinstalled and updated, and still problems with the crackling. I find it's worse when disk access is occurring, and even worse when it's a WAV and not an MP3 playing. For instance I'll be playing an MP3 with no crackling, then start reading the hard drive - and the pops begin. I've updated all the VIA programs, AND set the latency to everything from 0 to 32, no change. Suggestions beyond playing musical card slots? Thanks. -- Stephen Goodman * Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff * http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack |
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"Jim Routis" wrote in message ... | Have you tried to reinstall Windows ? Twas one of the steps what led to this situation... I suspect the WDM version files are the culprit. Can't get rid of them. Has anyone ever determined what the 'favorite' slot of this annoying card is? | "S.P. Goodman" wrote in message | ... | AMD Duron 800, 256MB SDRAM, Asus A7VPro w/VIA chipset, Win2000 Pro, SBLive | (MP3+, though it's seen as a "value"), two IDE HDs (both on channel 0, | master/slave), Lite-On LTR-32125W CDRW (channel 1, cable select). | | I have recently upgraded the NIC in the system from an old 3C509 Combo to | a | new 3Com 3C590, so to get the obvious benefits of 100Mb/s, and a four-port | Firewire card (TI OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller). | | In the process of upgrading the NIC I encountered "shadow" devices' | installations left over from previous removals/uninstallations (View | Hidden | Devices), which obfuscated the NIC's access to the net. These have been | uninstalled without trouble, at which point the NIC was fully functional. | Before I'd discovered the View Hidden Devices method, though, there was a | good amount of card switching slots-wise. End result has everything | running | apparently fine - with the exception of crackling, which has returned to | this PC after four years. | | Previous to the Lite-On CDRW the CDRW was a SCSI-based Yamaha 4416s - the | Adaptec SCSI card was a pain in the tail to configure AND keep it out of | the | way of other devices, but I *did* get it to eventually behave. Mind you I | lived in fear and loathing of any hardware changes while the SCSI element | was present, and the speed of the new unit was also a joy. So I figured | with the SCSI card gone it'd be a breeze. | | Not so. I've gotten ALL the Creative drivers/programs reinstalled and | updated, and still problems with the crackling. I find it's worse when | disk | access is occurring, and even worse when it's a WAV and not an MP3 | playing. | For instance I'll be playing an MP3 with no crackling, then start reading | the hard drive - and the pops begin. I've updated all the VIA programs, | AND | set the latency to everything from 0 to 32, no change. | | Suggestions beyond playing musical card slots? Thanks. | | | -- | Stephen Goodman | * Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff | * http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack | | | | |
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