Re: Sound Crackles on Multiple Sound cards and speakers!
- From: louie55 <louie55.1zon62@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:22:45 +0000
I'm not sure if my problem is a Creative one since it did the same thing
with my onboard sound?? Unless it was a Creative product also?? I can't
find any specs on my motherboard because the manufacturer apparently
went out of business because they are no where to be found.
Louie
Cymbal Man Freq. Wrote:
> http://www.abxzone.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1500.html
>
>
> masterblaster03-14-2001, 12:18 PM
> Thanks to all who have attempted to solve this problem. I am sick of
> Creative
> Labs ignoring this issue. I just e-mailed them the following letter. If
> I get
> any results, I'll post it here.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Creative Tech Support,
>
> I am experiencing electrical popping noises and white noise at
> start-up? And
> even worse that that, when I'm playing games such as Quake III, many of
> the
> sounds, (like rocket explosion sounds), are ALL DISTORTION. This sounds
> really
> lousy on my speakers. I recently upgraded from a Sounblaster PCI128,
> and had
> never had this problem with that card. I currently have the SB-Live 5.1
> MP3+,
> and ......
>
> SB-LIVE MP3+ 5.1 sound card
> Cambridge Acoustics satellites(2) w/ a subwoofer.
> Asus CUSL-2 Motherboard Rev. 1002 BIOS
> Pentium III-550E
> 256 MB of PC133
>
> I've tried disabling the Creative SB16 emulation in the Device Manager,
> and this
> did not help at all. After searching for help on the internet and on
> Creative's
> Online Troubleshooting area, I decided to call Creative Tech Support. I
> was on
> hold for quite some time for this toll call. Once connected with a
> technical
> support agent at Creative, he told me (and I quote) "it's a Microsoft
> Windows
> problem, not a Soundblaster Live problem"....(he went on to
> say)...."not to have
> a big head, but creative cards are so superior to other sound cards
> that they
> use alot of system resources, and the Windows o/s just can't handle
> it." I told
> him that I felt that this statement was completely ridiculous and
> unacceptable!
> I told him that there are plenty of competitive sound cards to date
> that are as
> good or better that Creative cards, (ie, the Phillips Acoustic Edge, or
> Hercules
> Game Theater XP, etc.), and that Creative Labs claims to be creating
> sound cards
> to operate within the Windows Operating Systems. This IS how they
> market their
> cards anyway, to operate under Windows. If anything, they should be
> catering to
> Windows, not the other way around. This tech support guy would have me
> believe
> that Creative cards are just "too good" for windows. He refused to help
> me and
> made no suggestions at all. Keep in mind that I NEVER once raised my
> voice, but
> simply was honest and straight forward with him.
>
> I've tried countless technical support forums over the last month,
> including
> creative labs' FAQ section, but it proved worthless on the topic. Now
> I've tried
> calling creative tech support, and that proved a waste of MY time and
> MY money
> for the toll call. Many, many people are having this problem. I've seen
> it on
> tons of tech support forums. Why can't I get a straight answer?
> Soundblaster
> Live cards are the most popular cards around! Why is this problem being
> ignored?
>
> I have my SB card in PCI slot #3 with IRQ #5 reserved in the BIOS.
> Under the
> Device Manager IRQ settings, IRQ #5 is still sharing:
> 1) ACPI IRQ holder for PCI IRQ Steering
> 2) Intel USB universal host controller 2444
>
> I've also tried disabling "ACPI", and "Plug and Play O/S." This fix was
> proposed
> on the 3D Sound Surge Forum for Creative Labs Soundblaster Live Cards.
>
> http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000053.html
>
> I am at a loss for how to get my Soundblaster Live working correctly. I
> really
> hope that my e-mail is not ignored, but properly addressed. Creative
> Labs should
> not ignore such a huge problem.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> We'll see if they respond, or continue to ignore.
>
> MB
>
>
> *************************************************
> masterblaster03-17-2001, 01:33 PM
> It seems like too much trouble to screw with anymore. If Creative Labs
> doesn't
> put out new drivers with a fix, then screw it. I'll just get rid of my
> SoundBlaster, and get a different sound card, not a Creative product.
>
> MB
>
> *****************************************************
>
> FuNkY03-22-2001, 07:24 PM
> Hey Klesk2000...this is the exact same problem I had under Win2k, and
> it was
> poor creative drivers and IRQ sharing with the Live card. This is what
> actually
> pushed me to try the Philips Card which would blue screen instead of
> cause
> distortion.
>
> I spent many hours on this problem and lets just say I escalated it as
> far as I
> can go without utilizing an official channel to do so. I spent several
> hours
> with a debugger and found most of it being caused by a very poorly
> written
> EMU10K1F.SYS file (which is Creative's driver). Most are caused by
> stressing
> their 3D sound functions...even without EAX turned on.
>
> As for why it only happens in games...it's the only place you push
> EMU10K1F.SYS
> to it's limits. You can actually reproduce it under Windows fairly easy
> by
> repeating a CD quality sound very rapidly.
>
> I will be happy to go through a repro on my machine with you, although
> some off
> my components are a little different. Feel free to check out
> http://www.funderburks.com/dan/ under Hardware to compare hardware if
> interested.
>
> A big caution I would give you is you need to pay very close attention
> to which
> version of drivers you need to use (not always the latest). It will
> take some
> time to get everything done, but I'm sure we can get it fixed for you.
>
> FuNkY
> ***********************************************
>
> Klesk200004-08-2001, 05:30 PM
> I suggest to all the people getting this poping/clicking sound problem
> to call
> Creative Labs tech support at 1-405-742-6655 and let them know you are
> getting
> it because that is the only way they will get the problem worked on.
> Right now,
> whenever I call, I ask how many other people call about these poping
> sound
> issues. They said quote "next to none". What that means is that they
> are not
> getting enough people calling about this problem which means they are
> seeing it
> as a "isolated" incident. If they think it is isolated, and they can't
> reproduce
> the problem in their labs, they will not fix it because they don't
> think it is a
> "big" enough problem. I know at least 30 other people with
> popping/clicking
> sound problems on a variety of motherboard/CPU/speaker combinations. I
> have
> tried the ASUSTeK K7V, Intel D815EP, and the ASUSTeK CUSL2-C
> motherboards. I get
> the poping sounds with all of them. Personally, I think this is a power
> supply
> issue. I got a question for you guys who are getting this problem, what
> EXACT
> power supply manufacturer and model do you guys have? Also, what hard
> drive and
> memory are you guys using?
--
louie55
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