CUV266 Sound/Video Card problem

[Jim in Canada]

I discovered a nice find in the used parts bin at my local computer store
for ~20 bucks CDN. A CUV266. I had a 1 gig PIII that needed a home

Asus CUV266 (WOAL) w/1gig PIII processor
512 Ram 2100 DDR
Asus 7100 AGP 4X Gforce 64 MX 440
Creative SB PCI 16
Windows XP HE
BIOS 1002B
VIA 4 in 1 4.49

Hi all. I just through the above together along with a Maxtor 20 gig hard
drive, and over all, it is a very good second machine. #1 is a P4PE based
system. (no cold boot issues, ever. Touch wood)

One problem with the CUV266:
When playing streaming audio, MP3's or CDs, with visualizations turned on or
off, there is crackling, snapping, popping, and/or ffrrippping, noises
whenever I click on the screen with my mouse. The above sounds depends on
the command.

Click on Start: Pop
Right click anywhere: ffrrrripp (Length of sound depending on size of
context menu)
Small window appears: Pop
Click on Media Players menu and the speed of the music changes or jumps.
Visualization: Sort of a constant Purr.....

Also while the visualization is running the speed of the music changes.
Sounds like an Alvin & the Chipmunks rendition. Turn off the visualizations,
click on MP's menu and it pops, and the music jumps.

I tried the following:
I originally flashupdated to the Beta BIOS 1002.003 but aflashed back to
final release 1002B. No change.
Restored back to Windows Media player 8.0 No Change
Updated drivers: Sound Blaster 5.12.1.2065 Video Card Geforce 4.0.7.2 No
change.

The only thing I have not tried is to downgrade the VIA drivers.

I have an old emachine with a trigem cognac 133 mhz motherboard PIII 800 Mhz
running XP HE, 32 MB PCI video card, onboard audio with MP9 and it has none
of these problems.

Thanks guys/gals. Any/all help appreciated.
Jim

 

[Jim in Canada]

For other peoples knowledge I figured out the problem myself.

It turned out to be the pre-xp sound blaster PCI 16 card.

I purchased a new card (c-media) and all works fine now.

Jim