Sound cards

[Sinbad]

SO the sound card on my motherboard is giving hassles.

I have an old SB Live 5.1 sitting in a drawer but I don't expect this to work too well with windows 7 64bit.

Where can I find a modern, decent sound card? Don't want HDMI, I have old analogue speakers...

Thanks

[garyc]

It may be worth giving a try, I have an old Audigy 4 working on one Win 7 - 64 machine. If you want to buy new there is only one choice, the Asus Xonar.

[Sinbad]

Didn't work. No drivers available :-/

Thanks, will look for a xonar

[Inn3rs3lf]

asus has decent entry level cards for around R300. So yeah, head in that direction.

[Sinbad]

Who stocks? Any idea? Kalahari start at 700 bucks with a week's wait.

[DA-LION-619]

http://www.takealot.com/electronics/...-card,12808493

Maybe try Esquire for the Xonar ?

[copacetic]

http://support.creative.com/Products...ame=Sound+Blas

Are these the drivers you tried?

[Slayeruser]

http://shop.esquire.co.za/ProductDes...spx?id=1110494 for R279+VAT
http://shop.esquire.co.za/ProductDes...spx?id=1173110 for R369+VAT

[Sinbad]

http://support.creative.com/Products...ame=Sound+Blas

Are these the drivers you tried?

No. Mine isn't the 24 bit version. It's older than that.

[Sinbad]

http://shop.esquire.co.za/ProductDes...spx?id=1110494 for R279+VAT
http://shop.esquire.co.za/ProductDes...spx?id=1173110 for R369+VAT

Thank you sir

[copacetic]

No. Mine isn't the 24 bit version. It's older than that.

Oh, allright, I was going on this:

This download supports the following audio devices only:

Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit
Sound Blaster Audigy Value/SE/LS
Sound Blaster 5.1 VX

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I am pretty sure I've had old Live 5.1's working in Win 7 64...

There are non-creative driver packages as well.

[Sinbad]

Right so I got a xonar ds...
Installed it, downloaded latest drivers (win7 64) and installed..

Card makes a horrible noise out the front left and right speakers. Other channels are fine. Noise seems to be almost like bus interference,,, squeals in conjunction with hdd operations or screen scrolls... Fl and fr do not make any of the sounds they are supposed to, just the squeal/hiss/crackle...

Took it back to esquire who swapped it out for me. New card does exactly the same.

Wtfbbq? Any ideas?

Thanks

[Esquire]

Hello Sinbad
My suggestion is to bring your rig to our test bench and let my guys test it and see if they find the fault it is not possible that two sound cards can give the same error, it sounds like you have a software or an IRQ conflict , try manually setting the IRQ settings I have seen this many years ago when sounds card still had jumper setting

EDIT: Please read your PM I sent you some info on IRQ conflicts and sound cards

[sajunky]

+1. It sounds to me jitter or even discontinuous samples.

[Chevron]

SO the sound card on my motherboard is giving hassles.

I have an old SB Live 5.1 sitting in a drawer but I don't expect this to work too well with windows 7 64bit.

Where can I find a modern, decent sound card? Don't want HDMI, I have old analogue speakers...

Thanks

I have a Creative audigy if you want. PM in you're interested.