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A7N8DX sound drivers sucks
When I was trying to get my MoBo to work with a new serial ATA drive
(problem still not resolved) I updated and upgraded a lot of my drivers and bios etc and ended up with a system I don't like as much as I did on the old drivers. In particular is the sound drivers. Eww.. What ever I had before was a lot better than it is now. I updated the combined nVidia drivers which also included the sound driver and now have Audio Driver 4.42.. Issues at hand are that BF1942 games and modes audio drop out after some game play, Most importantly is that I listen to WinAmp streaming music while I work at home and now the audio is limited to the front channel audio and nothing out of the rear speakers while before it was all 5.1 speakers pumping out tunes. And now, WinAmp will cease to stream after a while until I reboot the system. Question: How can I roll back JUST the audio driver so I can go back to something not as new? And where can I find these drivers? WinXP is the OS.. It's quite annoying right now.. argh.. "If it's not broken don't fix it" Thanks in advance! |
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You can try this website for dealing with audio problems:
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/ Also if you remember what version of drivers you were happy with you can download and extract those drivers to a folder. Then from within Device manager try an upgrade or downgrade of audio drivers pointing the installation to the extracted file set. They would be under Audiodrv and audioutl subdirectory.When I update the NForce drivers I usually extract them to a directory..eg 5.10 and in this way I can install whichever part i like.I usually keep the old ones for awhile just in case I dont like some part of the new ones. Tell me about the SATA problem willing to help peter "Seaking" wrote in message ... When I was trying to get my MoBo to work with a new serial ATA drive (problem still not resolved) I updated and upgraded a lot of my drivers and bios etc and ended up with a system I don't like as much as I did on the old drivers. In particular is the sound drivers. Eww.. What ever I had before was a lot better than it is now. I updated the combined nVidia drivers which also included the sound driver and now have Audio Driver 4.42.. Issues at hand are that BF1942 games and modes audio drop out after some game play, Most importantly is that I listen to WinAmp streaming music while I work at home and now the audio is limited to the front channel audio and nothing out of the rear speakers while before it was all 5.1 speakers pumping out tunes. And now, WinAmp will cease to stream after a while until I reboot the system. Question: How can I roll back JUST the audio driver so I can go back to something not as new? And where can I find these drivers? WinXP is the OS.. It's quite annoying right now.. argh.. "If it's not broken don't fix it" Thanks in advance! |
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On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:30:38 GMT, "peter" wrote:
case I dont like some part of the new ones. Tell me about the SATA problem willing to help Lock and load as this SATA prob is a bit involved so let me start with the basics.. it's a bit of a story.. I bought a Samsung SATA HDD (120G) to mount in my system as a storage drive. I got it installed and seen by the system, up to the point of being formatted and the system locked up.. after that, anytime I boot up with the drive installed I go through endless error loops where the system access the drive.. silent.. access.. silent.. access... and on.. and on... System is the mobo Rev2 and at the time, was BIOS 1003 now it's 1008, and now all the drivers are updated with the latest which didn't help. I have 1 HDD on each mobo Pri and the DVD burner on IDE2. On the Promise ATA100 card in a PCI slot I have two other HDD storage drives, and on a promise ATA66 I have a DVD reader.. (this is all a throw back from old days where best action comes from single units per channel, right or wrong, this is how I normaly do it). The SATA drive was installed and the jumper moved to ENABLE and while it worked OK the first time, it doesn't on this mobo now. The hard drive was taken to a pal's house, installed in his system as a storage drive and it works great! But install it in mine and it's all duff.. For all intended purposes, it would be as if this mobo remembers this particular HDD as being duff and won't talk to it and goes into conniptions. I have another drive coming in to test to see if the system will see it or not. How does this sound so far? You can email me if you wish at seaking at eastlink.ca Thanks in advance! |
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| "Seaking" wrote in message | ... | Issues at hand are that BF1942 games and modes audio drop out after | some game play, Most importantly is that I listen to WinAmp streaming | music while I work at home and now the audio is limited to the front | channel audio and nothing out of the rear speakers while before it was | all 5.1 speakers pumping out tunes. And now, WinAmp will cease to | stream after a while until I reboot the system. | I vaguely recall a post at nforcershq about disabling environmental audio settings to enable rear speakers with some programs, it may have been winamp. -- Best regards, Kyle | |
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:12:16 -0500, "Kylesb" wrote:
| "Seaking" wrote in message | ... | Issues at hand are that BF1942 games and modes audio drop out after | some game play, Most importantly is that I listen to WinAmp streaming | music while I work at home and now the audio is limited to the front | channel audio and nothing out of the rear speakers while before it was | all 5.1 speakers pumping out tunes. And now, WinAmp will cease to | stream after a while until I reboot the system. | I vaguely recall a post at nforcershq about disabling environmental audio settings to enable rear speakers with some programs, it may have been winamp. Thanks, that's something to look at for sure.. I don't know if it's the sound drivers doing it or not but now Winamp stops streaming it's music and won't recommence until after a reboot.. simply looks like it's starting...... and then doesn't stream.. Gah one thing after another =) Thanks for the advice. |
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When I hear of it accessing and stopping and accessing and stopping the first
thing I think of is power problems. With that many HD/CD/DVD drives on your system I hope you have an excellent and I mean excellent not just good power supply that delivers at least 200w on the +3.3 and +5.0 voltage lines.One Hard Drive can take anywhere from 5 to 15 W,a CD and a DVD up to 25w each.Thats just drives..then there is RAM...the CPU...video Card...NIC...etc etc. I am assuming that you did load the SATA drivers...the BIOS will recognize without drivers but not the OS peter "Seaking" wrote in message ... On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:30:38 GMT, "peter" wrote: case I dont like some part of the new ones. Tell me about the SATA problem willing to help Lock and load as this SATA prob is a bit involved so let me start with the basics.. it's a bit of a story.. I bought a Samsung SATA HDD (120G) to mount in my system as a storage drive. I got it installed and seen by the system, up to the point of being formatted and the system locked up.. after that, anytime I boot up with the drive installed I go through endless error loops where the system access the drive.. silent.. access.. silent.. access... and on.. and on... System is the mobo Rev2 and at the time, was BIOS 1003 now it's 1008, and now all the drivers are updated with the latest which didn't help. I have 1 HDD on each mobo Pri and the DVD burner on IDE2. On the Promise ATA100 card in a PCI slot I have two other HDD storage drives, and on a promise ATA66 I have a DVD reader.. (this is all a throw back from old days where best action comes from single units per channel, right or wrong, this is how I normaly do it). The SATA drive was installed and the jumper moved to ENABLE and while it worked OK the first time, it doesn't on this mobo now. The hard drive was taken to a pal's house, installed in his system as a storage drive and it works great! But install it in mine and it's all duff.. For all intended purposes, it would be as if this mobo remembers this particular HDD as being duff and won't talk to it and goes into conniptions. I have another drive coming in to test to see if the system will see it or not. How does this sound so far? You can email me if you wish at seaking at eastlink.ca Thanks in advance! |
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Hi, the system's PSU is a 450W Enermax and it did run the HDD properly
before it pooched the format.. I ever went as far as disconnecting the other storage HDD's 'just in case' it was a wattage problem but no, that's not it.. At the first go I did have the SATA drivers in and the system saw the drive, the OS saw the drive and went as far as formatting it... and pooched the format.. and no nothing.. by 'pooching' the format I mean that it stalled at 59% complete and stayed there for quite a few hours.. nothing I could do but reboot the system and then all fell apart. Still trying to book time with my buddy for him to bring another SATA drive to test in mine while mine works 100% in his system.. I took care of the shyte sound drivers by deleting the latest drivers and installing the originaly from the MoBo installation CD.. Go figure, the old ones worked 100% better than the newest one.. HA! I'll let you know about the HDD issue though.. Thanks! On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:32:05 GMT, "peter" wrote: When I hear of it accessing and stopping and accessing and stopping the first thing I think of is power problems. With that many HD/CD/DVD drives on your system I hope you have an excellent and I mean excellent not just good power supply that delivers at least 200w on the +3.3 and +5.0 voltage lines.One Hard Drive can take anywhere from 5 to 15 W,a CD and a DVD up to 25w each.Thats just drives..then there is RAM...the CPU...video Card...NIC...etc etc. I am assuming that you did load the SATA drivers...the BIOS will recognize without drivers but not the OS peter "Seaking" wrote in message .. . On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:30:38 GMT, "peter" wrote: case I dont like some part of the new ones. Tell me about the SATA problem willing to help Lock and load as this SATA prob is a bit involved so let me start with the basics.. it's a bit of a story.. I bought a Samsung SATA HDD (120G) to mount in my system as a storage drive. I got it installed and seen by the system, up to the point of being formatted and the system locked up.. after that, anytime I boot up with the drive installed I go through endless error loops where the system access the drive.. silent.. access.. silent.. access... and on.. and on... System is the mobo Rev2 and at the time, was BIOS 1003 now it's 1008, and now all the drivers are updated with the latest which didn't help. I have 1 HDD on each mobo Pri and the DVD burner on IDE2. On the Promise ATA100 card in a PCI slot I have two other HDD storage drives, and on a promise ATA66 I have a DVD reader.. (this is all a throw back from old days where best action comes from single units per channel, right or wrong, this is how I normaly do it). The SATA drive was installed and the jumper moved to ENABLE and while it worked OK the first time, it doesn't on this mobo now. The hard drive was taken to a pal's house, installed in his system as a storage drive and it works great! But install it in mine and it's all duff.. For all intended purposes, it would be as if this mobo remembers this particular HDD as being duff and won't talk to it and goes into conniptions. I have another drive coming in to test to see if the system will see it or not. How does this sound so far? You can email me if you wish at seaking at eastlink.ca Thanks in advance! |
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Has your friend tried reformatting the drive??
Have you tried.(this is a real pain) clearing your CMOS?? unplug ..remove battery..wait 2 minutes...reinsert battery...replug...restart. I suggest you write your settings down before you do this......easier to get back to normal. Your right its a real dilema I cant even try to duplicate this on my test system. peter "Seaking" wrote in message news Hi, the system's PSU is a 450W Enermax and it did run the HDD properly before it pooched the format.. I ever went as far as disconnecting the other storage HDD's 'just in case' it was a wattage problem but no, that's not it.. At the first go I did have the SATA drivers in and the system saw the drive, the OS saw the drive and went as far as formatting it... and pooched the format.. and no nothing.. by 'pooching' the format I mean that it stalled at 59% complete and stayed there for quite a few hours.. nothing I could do but reboot the system and then all fell apart. Still trying to book time with my buddy for him to bring another SATA drive to test in mine while mine works 100% in his system.. I took care of the shyte sound drivers by deleting the latest drivers and installing the originaly from the MoBo installation CD.. Go figure, the old ones worked 100% better than the newest one.. HA! I'll let you know about the HDD issue though.. Thanks! On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:32:05 GMT, "peter" wrote: When I hear of it accessing and stopping and accessing and stopping the first thing I think of is power problems. With that many HD/CD/DVD drives on your system I hope you have an excellent and I mean excellent not just good power supply that delivers at least 200w on the +3.3 and +5.0 voltage lines.One Hard Drive can take anywhere from 5 to 15 W,a CD and a DVD up to 25w each.Thats just drives..then there is RAM...the CPU...video Card...NIC...etc etc. I am assuming that you did load the SATA drivers...the BIOS will recognize without drivers but not the OS peter "Seaking" wrote in message . .. On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:30:38 GMT, "peter" wrote: case I dont like some part of the new ones. Tell me about the SATA problem willing to help Lock and load as this SATA prob is a bit involved so let me start with the basics.. it's a bit of a story.. I bought a Samsung SATA HDD (120G) to mount in my system as a storage drive. I got it installed and seen by the system, up to the point of being formatted and the system locked up.. after that, anytime I boot up with the drive installed I go through endless error loops where the system access the drive.. silent.. access.. silent.. access... and on.. and on... System is the mobo Rev2 and at the time, was BIOS 1003 now it's 1008, and now all the drivers are updated with the latest which didn't help. I have 1 HDD on each mobo Pri and the DVD burner on IDE2. On the Promise ATA100 card in a PCI slot I have two other HDD storage drives, and on a promise ATA66 I have a DVD reader.. (this is all a throw back from old days where best action comes from single units per channel, right or wrong, this is how I normaly do it). The SATA drive was installed and the jumper moved to ENABLE and while it worked OK the first time, it doesn't on this mobo now. The hard drive was taken to a pal's house, installed in his system as a storage drive and it works great! But install it in mine and it's all duff.. For all intended purposes, it would be as if this mobo remembers this particular HDD as being duff and won't talk to it and goes into conniptions. I have another drive coming in to test to see if the system will see it or not. How does this sound so far? You can email me if you wish at seaking at eastlink.ca Thanks in advance! |
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Hi again.. yes, he actualy was able to install the drive to his
install and access it right away, read/write.. reformat, no probs it was a perfect drive on any machine except mine.. I had this problem before a long time ago on another machine and the hard drive would work on any machine except the one that pooched the format (power bump rebooted the machine during the format).. Do you remember that in Win98 you could reboot into Safe Mode and then go into Device Manager and actually see a list of every device the system had ever laid eyes on? If you uninstalled those non-existant devices and then rebooted your system would perform a weeeee tad better.. (power tweaks stuff) Well no dice in this case.. I did do the cmos reset and nope.. no dice.. it's in the registry I'm thinking.. Still working it though.. will find a solution.. I have dood coming today with the new drive to test that.. =) On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:13:05 GMT, "peter" wrote: Has your friend tried reformatting the drive?? Have you tried.(this is a real pain) clearing your CMOS?? unplug ..remove battery..wait 2 minutes...reinsert battery...replug...restart. I suggest you write your settings down before you do this......easier to get back to normal. Your right its a real dilema I cant even try to duplicate this on my test system. peter "Seaking" wrote in message news Hi, the system's PSU is a 450W Enermax and it did run the HDD properly before it pooched the format.. I ever went as far as disconnecting the other storage HDD's 'just in case' it was a wattage problem but no, that's not it.. At the first go I did have the SATA drivers in and the system saw the drive, the OS saw the drive and went as far as formatting it... and pooched the format.. and no nothing.. by 'pooching' the format I mean that it stalled at 59% complete and stayed there for quite a few hours.. nothing I could do but reboot the system and then all fell apart. Still trying to book time with my buddy for him to bring another SATA drive to test in mine while mine works 100% in his system.. I took care of the shyte sound drivers by deleting the latest drivers and installing the originaly from the MoBo installation CD.. Go figure, the old ones worked 100% better than the newest one.. HA! I'll let you know about the HDD issue though.. Thanks! On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:32:05 GMT, "peter" wrote: When I hear of it accessing and stopping and accessing and stopping the first thing I think of is power problems. With that many HD/CD/DVD drives on your system I hope you have an excellent and I mean excellent not just good power supply that delivers at least 200w on the +3.3 and +5.0 voltage lines.One Hard Drive can take anywhere from 5 to 15 W,a CD and a DVD up to 25w each.Thats just drives..then there is RAM...the CPU...video Card...NIC...etc etc. I am assuming that you did load the SATA drivers...the BIOS will recognize without drivers but not the OS peter "Seaking" wrote in message ... On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:30:38 GMT, "peter" wrote: case I dont like some part of the new ones. Tell me about the SATA problem willing to help Lock and load as this SATA prob is a bit involved so let me start with the basics.. it's a bit of a story.. I bought a Samsung SATA HDD (120G) to mount in my system as a storage drive. I got it installed and seen by the system, up to the point of being formatted and the system locked up.. after that, anytime I boot up with the drive installed I go through endless error loops where the system access the drive.. silent.. access.. silent.. access... and on.. and on... System is the mobo Rev2 and at the time, was BIOS 1003 now it's 1008, and now all the drivers are updated with the latest which didn't help. I have 1 HDD on each mobo Pri and the DVD burner on IDE2. On the Promise ATA100 card in a PCI slot I have two other HDD storage drives, and on a promise ATA66 I have a DVD reader.. (this is all a throw back from old days where best action comes from single units per channel, right or wrong, this is how I normaly do it). The SATA drive was installed and the jumper moved to ENABLE and while it worked OK the first time, it doesn't on this mobo now. The hard drive was taken to a pal's house, installed in his system as a storage drive and it works great! But install it in mine and it's all duff.. For all intended purposes, it would be as if this mobo remembers this particular HDD as being duff and won't talk to it and goes into conniptions. I have another drive coming in to test to see if the system will see it or not. How does this sound so far? You can email me if you wish at seaking at eastlink.ca Thanks in advance! |
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Try looking in registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HARDWARE DEVICEMAP Scsi peter "Seaking" wrote in message ... Hi again.. yes, he actualy was able to install the drive to his install and access it right away, read/write.. reformat, no probs it was a perfect drive on any machine except mine.. I had this problem before a long time ago on another machine and the hard drive would work on any machine except the one that pooched the format (power bump rebooted the machine during the format).. Do you remember that in Win98 you could reboot into Safe Mode and then go into Device Manager and actually see a list of every device the system had ever laid eyes on? If you uninstalled those non-existant devices and then rebooted your system would perform a weeeee tad better.. (power tweaks stuff) Well no dice in this case.. I did do the cmos reset and nope.. no dice.. it's in the registry I'm thinking.. Still working it though.. will find a solution.. I have dood coming today with the new drive to test that.. =) On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:13:05 GMT, "peter" wrote: Has your friend tried reformatting the drive?? Have you tried.(this is a real pain) clearing your CMOS?? unplug ..remove battery..wait 2 minutes...reinsert battery...replug...restart. I suggest you write your settings down before you do this......easier to get back to normal. Your right its a real dilema I cant even try to duplicate this on my test system. peter "Seaking" wrote in message news Hi, the system's PSU is a 450W Enermax and it did run the HDD properly before it pooched the format.. I ever went as far as disconnecting the other storage HDD's 'just in case' it was a wattage problem but no, that's not it.. At the first go I did have the SATA drivers in and the system saw the drive, the OS saw the drive and went as far as formatting it... and pooched the format.. and no nothing.. by 'pooching' the format I mean that it stalled at 59% complete and stayed there for quite a few hours.. nothing I could do but reboot the system and then all fell apart. Still trying to book time with my buddy for him to bring another SATA drive to test in mine while mine works 100% in his system.. I took care of the shyte sound drivers by deleting the latest drivers and installing the originaly from the MoBo installation CD.. Go figure, the old ones worked 100% better than the newest one.. HA! I'll let you know about the HDD issue though.. Thanks! On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:32:05 GMT, "peter" wrote: When I hear of it accessing and stopping and accessing and stopping the first thing I think of is power problems. With that many HD/CD/DVD drives on your system I hope you have an excellent and I mean excellent not just good power supply that delivers at least 200w on the +3.3 and +5.0 voltage lines.One Hard Drive can take anywhere from 5 to 15 W,a CD and a DVD up to 25w each.Thats just drives..then there is RAM...the CPU...video Card...NIC...etc etc. I am assuming that you did load the SATA drivers...the BIOS will recognize without drivers but not the OS peter "Seaking" wrote in message m... On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:30:38 GMT, "peter" wrote: case I dont like some part of the new ones. Tell me about the SATA problem willing to help Lock and load as this SATA prob is a bit involved so let me start with the basics.. it's a bit of a story.. I bought a Samsung SATA HDD (120G) to mount in my system as a storage drive. I got it installed and seen by the system, up to the point of being formatted and the system locked up.. after that, anytime I boot up with the drive installed I go through endless error loops where the system access the drive.. silent.. access.. silent.. access... and on.. and on... System is the mobo Rev2 and at the time, was BIOS 1003 now it's 1008, and now all the drivers are updated with the latest which didn't help. I have 1 HDD on each mobo Pri and the DVD burner on IDE2. On the Promise ATA100 card in a PCI slot I have two other HDD storage drives, and on a promise ATA66 I have a DVD reader.. (this is all a throw back from old days where best action comes from single units per channel, right or wrong, this is how I normaly do it). The SATA drive was installed and the jumper moved to ENABLE and while it worked OK the first time, it doesn't on this mobo now. The hard drive was taken to a pal's house, installed in his system as a storage drive and it works great! But install it in mine and it's all duff.. For all intended purposes, it would be as if this mobo remembers this particular HDD as being duff and won't talk to it and goes into conniptions. I have another drive coming in to test to see if the system will see it or not. How does this sound so far? You can email me if you wish at seaking at eastlink.ca Thanks in advance! |
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