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Sinbad

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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 :)
 
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.
 
Didn't work. No drivers available :-/

Thanks, will look for a xonar
 
Who stocks? Any idea? Kalahari start at 700 bucks with a week's wait.
 
Sinbad said:
No. Mine isn't the 24 bit version. It's older than that.
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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.
 
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
 
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
 
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+1. It sounds to me jitter or even discontinuous samples.
 
Sinbad said:
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 :)
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I have a Creative audigy if you want. PM in you're interested.
 
Sinbad said:
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
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Ive got exactly the same problem as u. On a xonar dg card. Been having it for bout a year now. If i use the front headphone jack connected to the sound card it works fine. Since this started my onboard sound doesnt work.

Im sure its hardware but i dont know what to replace besides the motherboard. Could be the cpu or hdd etc. could also be grounding issues which i am not too clued up on. Ive stripped my pc like 5x since it started but no avail.

Have u got a damaged cpu like a pin got bent or something? Also what mobo are u using?
 
sajunky said:
+1. It sounds to me jitter or even discontinuous samples.
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I would agree if there was even a hint of the test sounds coming from the left and right channels. There is not. Only squeal.
Center channel is perfect.
 
hugo69er said:
Ive got exactly the same problem as u. On a xonar dg card. Been having it for bout a year now. If i use the front headphone jack connected to the sound card it works fine. Since this started my onboard sound doesnt work.

Im sure its hardware but i dont know what to replace besides the motherboard. Could be the cpu or hdd etc. could also be grounding issues which i am not too clued up on. Ive stripped my pc like 5x since it started but no avail.

Have u got a damaged cpu like a pin got bent or something? Also what mobo are u using?
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Gigabyte ga55 ud3p motherboard. No damage anywhere that I am aware of. Only two pci cards: a USB card and this sound card.
 
There must be something very wrong then. With a Xonar there should be absolute silence, it's the first thing you notice coming from onboard sound, how quiet the silence is. Could it be the speakers?
 
TJ99 said:
There must be something very wrong then. With a Xonar there should be absolute silence, it's the first thing you notice coming from onboard sound, how quiet the silence is. Could it be the speakers?
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Speakers work perfectly when plugged into the left or side channels.
 
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