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Jul 21st, 2003, 09:21 AM
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Thread Starter
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Audio playback problem
I recently put a new GForce4 MX SE (PCI, from xFx) in my friend's PC.
Now he claims that during audio playback, he often hears a little "scratch"...
I went to hear this phenomenon and I found out that this was only the case when using streaming audio from apps like Windows Media Player, etc. (MP3, WAV, ... directly from hard disk)
It was not the case when using the ordinary Windows Sound Recorder, because this loads the whole sound file.
The PC never did this before.
Any suggestions?
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Jul 24th, 2003, 11:26 AM
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Did you seat the video card real close to the sound card? You could be getting static from it if so.
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Jul 27th, 2003, 12:47 PM
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Thread Starter
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The sound card is embedded onto the motherboard.
But that would be ambigious, not? Because audio plays fine with Windows Sound Recorder or any other simple .WAV player.
The problem only arises when playing streaming audio.
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Jul 27th, 2003, 01:17 PM
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Monday Morning Lunatic
It could be sharing an IRQ with your IDE controller, so disk accesses conflict. What did you have before the GeForce?
Also try moving it to a different PCI slot.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Jul 28th, 2003, 03:44 AM
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So Unbanned
What are the other system specs?
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Jul 28th, 2003, 03:55 AM
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Thread Starter
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Before, the video IC was also integrated onto the motherboard.
The PC is a Celeron 1GHz without a AGP slot (hence, my choice for the GeForce PCI card from XfX).
The disk space is also large enough, my friend mostly plays .WAV files (so, large files: +- 30Mb per file).
The problem is: some little "scratch" at a certain interval ; it takes some milliseconds I guess, but you can really hear it during playback.
When the file is loaded with let's say "Sound recorder" it plays perfectly (because I guess that the whole file is loaded into memory, not?)
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