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  #1  
Old September 26th 04, 12:55 PM
Seaking
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Default 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!
  #2  
Old September 26th 04, 08:30 PM
peter
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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!



  #3  
Old September 26th 04, 10:24 PM
Seaking
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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!
  #4  
Old September 27th 04, 06:12 AM
Kylesb
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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
|

  #5  
Old September 27th 04, 04:26 PM
Seaking
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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.
  #6  
Old September 29th 04, 01:32 AM
peter
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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!



  #7  
Old September 29th 04, 08:56 PM
Seaking
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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!



  #8  
Old October 1st 04, 01:13 AM
peter
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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!





  #9  
Old October 1st 04, 09:43 AM
Seaking
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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!




  #10  
Old October 2nd 04, 02:39 AM
peter
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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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