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This is just weird.
I had my A7N8X Deluxe (board rev 1.04 and BIOS 1004) working just fine. Then
I decided to add SATA RAID to it. Bad Idea.
So I'm reinstalling the OS (that was a bit of a nightmare because of an
additional IDE drive I had, but that's not the problem). All goes well, Dolby
Digital is being pumped therough the SP/DIF connector to my receiver and it
sounds 5.1 channels worth of awesome. So I go through and do all the driver
updates, using the official Asus allinone driver set (1.16). Again, works
fine, sounds great.
Then I do all of the MS updates. Now I get this interesting little annoyance.
If no sound is coming from the system for about 30 seconds, the Dolby Digital
shuts down. It restarts after a sound has been played, but it clips the first
part of it while it's starting up. I can tell exactly what it's doing because
my receiver has a display that tells you what soundstream is coming through
digitally. So when all is working well, it says Dolby Digital 3.1/2 which
tells me all is well. However, if the system is idle for a minute or so, I
get "No Digital Input". This tells me the digital signal has stopped and it's
getting nothing from the computer. It didn't do this until I reformatted and
reinstalled.
I reinstalled the OS just to see if I screwed up something, but it appeared
again. I've isolated it to a MS patch called the Nvidia Multimedia Driver.
This driver is version 6.14.348.0. Microsoft Windows Update calls this
"nVidia Multimedia software update released on June 17th".
This patch was required by GTA VC to get the sound to work correctly. The sad
thing is that I had this same patch on the system with the EXACT same set of
Asus Nforce2 drivers before reformatting and reinstalling the OS (with the
RAID) and it ran fine, no problems.
Anyone got an idea what's causing this or how to fix it? I need the patch to
get the sound to work properly in a few games.
I had my A7N8X Deluxe (board rev 1.04 and BIOS 1004) working just fine. Then
I decided to add SATA RAID to it. Bad Idea.
So I'm reinstalling the OS (that was a bit of a nightmare because of an
additional IDE drive I had, but that's not the problem). All goes well, Dolby
Digital is being pumped therough the SP/DIF connector to my receiver and it
sounds 5.1 channels worth of awesome. So I go through and do all the driver
updates, using the official Asus allinone driver set (1.16). Again, works
fine, sounds great.
Then I do all of the MS updates. Now I get this interesting little annoyance.
If no sound is coming from the system for about 30 seconds, the Dolby Digital
shuts down. It restarts after a sound has been played, but it clips the first
part of it while it's starting up. I can tell exactly what it's doing because
my receiver has a display that tells you what soundstream is coming through
digitally. So when all is working well, it says Dolby Digital 3.1/2 which
tells me all is well. However, if the system is idle for a minute or so, I
get "No Digital Input". This tells me the digital signal has stopped and it's
getting nothing from the computer. It didn't do this until I reformatted and
reinstalled.
I reinstalled the OS just to see if I screwed up something, but it appeared
again. I've isolated it to a MS patch called the Nvidia Multimedia Driver.
This driver is version 6.14.348.0. Microsoft Windows Update calls this
"nVidia Multimedia software update released on June 17th".
This patch was required by GTA VC to get the sound to work correctly. The sad
thing is that I had this same patch on the system with the EXACT same set of
Asus Nforce2 drivers before reformatting and reinstalling the OS (with the
RAID) and it ran fine, no problems.
Anyone got an idea what's causing this or how to fix it? I need the patch to
get the sound to work properly in a few games.