Distoted Sound

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Windows XP
PCI Sound Card

Sound is terrible, distorted, "screechy" whenever there is
any disk (ide) access. Quite a common problem if you
search the 'Net. The solution for me was to change from
DMA access on the HD to PIO mode. Which I think kinda
sucks, my computer's slow enough as is. :-(

I only mention this in the hopes that someone from MS will
notice this post and do something. :-) Please, pleaee,
please.......
 
Slappy said:
Windows XP
PCI Sound Card

Sound is terrible, distorted, "screechy" whenever there is
any disk (ide) access. Quite a common problem if you
search the 'Net. The solution for me was to change from
DMA access on the HD to PIO mode. Which I think kinda
sucks, my computer's slow enough as is. :-(

I only mention this in the hopes that someone from MS will
notice this post and do something. :-) Please, pleaee,
please.......
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It's a common problem? Maybe with onboard sound it is. Microsoft can't
do anything in hardware to correct screwups in the design of your
motherboard. Disable onboard audio and get a sound card. Of course,
you never identified your hardware so no one familiar with it can help
you. Should you decide to identify your hardware, this certainly sounds
like a hardware problem so you might want to open a thread in the
hardware newsgroup.
 
Yeah, it's common. I guess you didn't read this part..

Regardless, it's not a sound card issue based on other
peoples experiences.
 
Hi,
You are wrong.. You should change it from PIO to DMA. The problem is that
PIO goes through the CPU to execute it's instructions thereby using much
more resources than DMA. DMA is a lot faster and uses much less cycles and
resources. I know, because I had this same problem. If you cannot change
it back to DMA mode that means that you had some IDE channel or disk errors
and Windows set it back to PIO mode. If this is the case, good luck. I had
to send my laptop back to the manufacturer to resolve this problem. When I
got it back it was using Ultra DMA Mode 5 once again but the way they got it
back to DMA was to re-image my hard drive with the original Windows XP
restore CDs. Everything I had installed and upgraded was wiped out. I am
now starting over. :( However the sound problem has been corrected. :) I
suspect it may have been some registry setting that needed to be changed but
I guess these tech people don't want to bother to determine the cause. It
is probably easier for them to just wipe out all of your work and re-image
the hard drive.
Good luck.
 
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