soundcard problem!!!

[jester212]

need some help here! for some time now when i listen to music or watch a dvd i get scratchy,choppy sound for a bit then it returns to normal,then a couple of seconds or minutes later it does the same again. im using a creative live 5.1 digital and the latest drivers i have tried uninstalling them and re-installing but i still get the same problem. any suggestions??

[directhex]

what's your motherboard chipset?

[blockers]

If you are using an Abit NF7-S then there are known problems with the South bridge getting too hot, and making the sound go bad. I dont know if this is isolated to the onboard sound, or if the sound cards suffer from the same problem.

Will

[unrealrocks]

Got this problem on the A7N8X-D V2.0 as well. I found moving DVD from Slave to Master sorted it.

[jester212]

im using a abit at7-max2 this has onboard sound but ive disabled this via the bios but still seem to get the same problem

[jester212]

oh sorry the chipset is via kt400 and vt8235

[Lee H]

Jester, try moving the card lower down on the PCI slots. I had an issue with a gigabyte board and the only PCI slot my old audigy would work in was slot 4.

Hope this information helps

Lee

[jester212]

Jester, try moving the card lower down on the PCI slots. I had an issue with a gigabyte board and the only PCI slot my old audigy would work in was slot 4.

Hope this information helps

Lee

thanks for the info! i will give it a try and see what happens

[jester212]

swapped it to a different pci slot away from graphics card and modem but still the same prob!!