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Question about installing a sound card
Posted: 2003-12-30 02:12am
by Superman
I just installed creative's 4.1 sound card (I have their 4.0 speaker setup). Here is what I want to know.
Why the heck are my MP3's skipping now? When they play, they actually skip! How can I fix this?
Re: Question about installing a sound card
Posted: 2003-12-30 02:22am
by Darth Wong
Superman wrote:I just installed creative's 4.1 sound card (I have their 4.0 speaker setup). Here is what I want to know.
Why the heck are my MP3's skipping now? When they play, they actually skip! How can I fix this?
It's probably Creative's drivers. Creative Labs has a long and sordid history of shitty drivers. Some of their early LiveWare drivers were so fucking atrocious that they would actually hose an NT install.
Posted: 2003-12-30 02:33am
by Superman
Posted: 2003-12-30 03:07am
by Superman
Oh, I think I uninstalled the audio codec in the BIOS menu. Could that have an effect?
Posted: 2003-12-30 03:10am
by Darth Wong
Superman wrote:Oh, I think I uninstalled the audio codec in the BIOS menu. Could that have an effect?
A codec is a piece of software, not something you would install or uninstall in the BIOS menu. You must be messing up your terminology.
It also occurred to me that it might be some kind of IRQ problem.
Posted: 2003-12-30 03:11am
by Datana
If you're using Winamp, go to the plugins directory and delete any Creative Nomad DLLs that are in there (these are added automatically by the Live! and Audigy driver sets; they're usually named gen_nomad.dll). Those royally screw over MP3 playback with no real gain.
Posted: 2003-12-30 03:13am
by Superman
D. Wong, what is IRC?
Arghhh! They are still skipping. What the hell? Could it maybe be that some other program is running that is causing this?
Posted: 2003-12-30 03:50am
by phongn
Creative Labs hards have been known to not play nicely with motherboards using older VIA chipsets -- there's a flaw in the VIA chipset that causes problems with the Creative Labs soundcard.
Posted: 2003-12-30 04:19am
by Superman
can it be updated?
Posted: 2003-12-30 04:25am
by The Kernel
Yes, get the latest Via Hyperion drivers (if that is indeed your chipset) and download Creatives latest. Do the chipset drivers first, then the soundcard.
