Topic: Sound Card Problems? (Read 2806 times)

Charlemagne 8 · « **on:** January 27, 2003, 03:41:26 pm »

Didn't mean to get you excited. I don't have any answers either but maybe if somebody knows of some solutions, post them here. There seem to be several of us with newly developed sound card issues.

Here's mine:

-No volume control slider.
-No Auto test for sound in Recorder.
-No conversion to MP3 ... even if starting from a WAV file.
-No exit from failed conversion routine. Must completely exit MC9. That is actually an improvement ... I used to have to restart the computer from a power-off shutdown.

Squeak!

CVIII

The playback can still be controlled from Window's sound icon thingy.

AND I use my sound card for recording only. Playback is through Stereo-Link. I've tried Direct Sound and Wave Out.

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Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.103 -- d:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Intel Celeron 534 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 260 MB, Free - 75 MB
Resource Info: System - 21 %, GDI - 56 %, User - 21 %

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
Shell32.dll: 4.72.3812.600
wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: N/A

Ripping / Drive F: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No

Burning / Drive F: 40X12X48 CD-RW Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:40 MaxSpeed:40 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None

JimH · « **Reply #1 on:** January 27, 2003, 03:49:47 pm »

What sound card is it?

Did you try re-installing the sound card drivers? Or the sound card software?

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 27, 2003, 03:58:58 pm »

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Did you try re-installing the sound card drivers?

I removed the sound card from the System Devices list and restarted so Windows could reinstall them.

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Or the sound card software?

I don't have the software .. or at least not that I can identify. It was preinstalled.

CVIII

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2003, 03:15:29 pm »

For the past couple of weeks, I've been working with HP to try and get my soundcard back to it's normal functioning but to no avail. The reinstallation disk just doesn't work.
So I give up and am now in the market for a new sound card. Any recommendations?

CVIII

Matt · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2003, 03:30:50 pm »

The other day I came to work and my computer was dead.

I started pulling pieces out one by one -- eventually figuring out that a RAM stick fried.

After putting in new RAM and restarting, my SB Audigy2 was dead.

I reinstalled the drivers.
I changed PCI slots.
I reinstalled the drivers.
I reinstalled newer drivers.

The best I got was so that it'd play 2 seconds of sound before stopping.

And the card works fine in other computers -- just not in mine anymore.

So, for whatever it's worth, you're not alone.

TURBO · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2003, 03:48:33 pm »

Mmm, mmm Ok, You should start by finding the drivers. Get the soundcard out. Look usually in the middle and locate the chipset. Do a search in a search engine and light will come to your eyes. Just dont follow the light, ok?. Next locate the manufacture website and download the drivers. If you think that a generic driver is working with that soundcard. Just check the properties of the driver and you will see the drivers (filename) that is been used by the demon , open the search (pc) and locate those files and delete it. Next reboot. Check ignition and make the god's love be with you.

JimH · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2003, 04:48:50 pm »

Far and away the most cogent description of sound cards and drivers that I've ever been privileged to witness. Praise be to TURBO.

KingSparta · « **Reply #7 on:** February 08, 2003, 06:18:16 am »

>> Just dont follow the light, ok?.
I thought the light was good

zevele10 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 08, 2003, 07:44:28 am »

you may have the software for the sound card on your motherboard disk - have a look.

If you did a clean install not long ago and still run 98 ,did you install DirectX as it as to be.
I mean it takes AGES to install
Even longer to close the computer
And the same when restarting.
You may had cold reboot your computer thinking something was wrong after the Direct X update and ...boom...problems

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 09, 2003, 02:29:01 pm »

I broke down and bought a Sound Blaster Extigy. I like external stuff. I haven't tackled the installation yet but I'll let you know what happens.

\http://www.soundblaster.com/products/extigy/tour.asp

CVIII

zevele10 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 09, 2003, 05:06:25 pm »

hope you get it cheap ,because having Stereo-link you do not really need it.
But i know the answer : it was cheap and i do not need to mess around inside the computer.
Look like you may be able to rip Rapsohy with it.
Still thinking about it.
I may get it next week with a 250 WesternDigital drive.
Next week i will be a King number 2 with 600 giga

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zak326 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 09, 2003, 06:01:49 pm »

I have had lots of problems with SB cards and even went thru several rounds with HP.
This was about 3 years ao and at the time both HP and Creative had similar recommendations. The sound card is very pciky about where it sits in those machines with w98.

Firwst go to Creative and get the latest drivers download them and put them on a cd or a zip or something like that,. Also you' nee dthe original cd unless what you are downloading replaces it. The cd's were in their prime dirng the 908 era so that's a good starting point. A clean install of windows with nothing in it but your video card. or as few thgings as possible. . When windows finishes. you'll want to first install your video card drivers, then the software from intel for your chipset and application excelerator and probably the usb patch ( if you have an intel chipset). If you have a viachipset you need to go tho their site and get theirs. These two or three patches help your chipset/ processor properly identtify things on your system.

Then you install the sound card. I think mine went in the middle slot or the second t froom the bottom. If your have anything like an onboard mnetwork card or modem disable it.

The idea here is to let that sound card have the run of the machine as far as where idt goes. I thing irq5 was the best. After you install your sound card then go to your network card/ modem etc. in that order then you can do the rest however you want. This method still works dfor me in XP with my audigy altho in XP youhave to make sure you have the proper ppermissions in the registry or it will never recoggize it.

If you are not gonna do a clkean install then you'll have to go through and manually remover every trace of the sound studff from you machins. Areal hassle. The easoiest wasy is if you have another hard drive.If you do and want to use that one in your machine do it and thn after you can temporarily put the second one in after install transfer data. .

his is a pain in the butt, I know but it works. The only issue cld be which slot you want it to go to. I'm not sure if you can maneuver it there on an HP machine but I think you can. Worst cast do a google search and various woirdings of the problem ., and you'll find an answer.

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 10, 2003, 04:57:14 pm »

I have a new soundcard and am listeining through it now. Recorder volume test works but I still get no volume slider on the lower left window. The volume control (Windows's) shows activity when I move it but there's no change in volume. When I put the mouse onto said lower left window and use the scroll wheel on the mouse, a message pops up and says "Volume: N/A"

JimH · « **Reply #13 on:** February 10, 2003, 05:28:32 pm »

That means that Windows thinks there is no sound card.

Check control panel/sytstem/hardware devices and see whether you don't have another (bogus) sound card.

zevele10 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2003, 03:52:59 am »

yes you have another soundcard.
The one inside your computer.
The new one must be default as soon as you power it.
You may try to unistall the old one ,or even to remove it from your machine.
But i am not sure what you mean by left lower window.
I assume you mean in MC.
It can be a matter of setting volume from your sound card ,not the slider, or playing with both.
Do not have yet this soundcard but i spent hours reading about it , and there is no raison you have problem with it

JollyJim · « **Reply #15 on:** February 11, 2003, 06:01:19 am »

I've also got the volume slider missing but I can't replicate the situation of scrolling the mouse wheel over the left hand panel to get the message that Charlemagne does...

Jim

Media Center Registered 9.0.109 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Intel Pentium III 599 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 130 MB, Free - 33 MB
Resource Info: System - 45 %, GDI - 68 %, User - 45 %

Internet Explorer: 5.50.4522.1800 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 5.50.4522.1800
Shell32.dll: 4.72.3612.1700
wnaspi32.dll: 2, 0, 0, 0 , ASPI for WIN32 DLL, Copyright © Adaptec 1995 / Aspi32.sys: N/A

Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive E: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No

Burning / Drive E: PHILIPS PCRW804 Addr: 0:1:0 Speed:8 MaxSpeed:8 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None

Autoelph · « **Reply #16 on:** February 11, 2003, 06:18:14 am »

I too have no volume slider, but I know why; My card bypasses the windows kernel mixer...I haven't had a volume slider in MJ/MC for nearly a year, and I get by fine using the mixer interface of my card, but it has on occasion caused minor irritation. But this brings up the question, when will MC9, and more directly it's volume control, be able to handle more complex audio output through high-end audio devices beyond SB's? I realize work on ASIO continues, but so far, ASIO in MC9 and my card don't seem to like each other :-/.

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 15, 2003, 03:17:24 pm »

My promised report:
I have slowly but surely been figuring out how to operate my new Creative Extigy "soundcard" and am becoming more impressed daily.
My loyalty to my wonderful Stereo-Link is being sorely tested. I am at this moment listening to Rhapsody with my Koss 4 channel headphones (a leftover from the 70's ... a flea market jewel I paid $4 for). I have one jack connected to the "front" output and the second jack connected to the "rear" output. Sounds much better than Stereo-Link I'm afraid.
I am now making plans to haul out two other stereo amps and split the signal into six speakers. The "Command Center" will never be the same.

CVIII

JimH · « **Reply #18 on:** February 15, 2003, 03:28:39 pm »

No matter what happens, no matter how exciting it gets, keep your eye on the "Eject" button.

zevele10 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 16, 2003, 07:53:16 am »

with my Koss 4 channel headphones

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Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 16, 2003, 03:24:33 pm »

Yes indeedy do. I paid $4 USD for them at a flea market, still in the original box. They're the best ones I've ever had and over the years, I've spent a lot of money on headphones.

CVIII

KingSparta · « **Reply #21 on:** February 16, 2003, 03:26:29 pm »

1970's Vintage Looks Like

IanH · « **Reply #22 on:** February 17, 2003, 07:59:36 am »

Koss made some great headphones. I had a set in the late 70's that were quad too! Had to get rid of them eventually as the foam on the earpieces broke down. They had their own "Command Center". Never could figure out that control panel!

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