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Following a clean install upgrade from Windows ME to Windows XP Pro SP2 on a
Dell Dimension 4100 (933MHz Pentium III, 512MB RAM) with an OEM-installed SB
Live! Value (WDM) PCI card onboard using the XP install drivers for the card
and the XP install apps for Play Control and Record Control (v.5.1 Build 2600
et al), full duplex wave audio (recording one wave file while simultaneously
playing back one or more other wave files) ups and disappears – ME had it, XP
doesn’t.
With Wave selected as the Input on Microsoft Record Control, the record side
of software mixers I use on the XP OS (e.g. DSP Quartz AudioMaster, NCH Swift
Sound MixPad / WavePad) fail to acquire or record the wave signal(s) being
played back by the mixer side of the same application. Stand alone recorders
(e.g. Microsoft Sound Recorder, Roxio Easy Audio Capture, HotKey Sound
Recorder) also fail to acquire or record the wave signal(s) being played back
by the aforementioned mixers. But if I switch the Record Control app’s input
to Microphone during the record pass, the Mic records without incident to
whatever app I’ve designated as the recorder. Or if I launch Windows Media
Player, playback a CD and select Wave as the Record Control app’s input, CD
audio will be recorded to whatever app I’ve designated as the recorder. How
can this be? Shouldn’t the CD’s signal show up on Record Control’s CD Audio
input and, if so, what’s it doing on the Wave input and how do I rectify that
bogus assignment? If the CD has somehow captured the Wave input to the
Record Control app, is that what is inhibiting full duplex when it comes to
wave files?
Creative’s AutoUpdate shows all drivers for the SB Live! sound card are up
to date. DXDIAG sound tests are all successful with no problems (text file
results available if anyone cares to see them). But the manual test for
full-duplex capability (Microsoft Knowledge Base 310353 and 915092) using
twin Sound Recorders fails as the second copy (record-designated) Sound
Recorder does not acquire or record a signal from the first copy
(playback-designated) Sound Recorder (no error codes display at any time
during the test). Clean booting the XP OS and running the same twin Sound
Recorders test does not rectify the problem.
Because the same sound card with ME drivers allowed full-duplex operation
with wave files under the ME OS but that capability is lost under the XP OS,
I suspect something might be amiss in the XP drivers and/or Record/Play
Control apps that XP loaded during the OS install.
Anyone have a clue as to what’s going on here? And how to fix it? I’m
stumped.
TIA . . .
Dell Dimension 4100 (933MHz Pentium III, 512MB RAM) with an OEM-installed SB
Live! Value (WDM) PCI card onboard using the XP install drivers for the card
and the XP install apps for Play Control and Record Control (v.5.1 Build 2600
et al), full duplex wave audio (recording one wave file while simultaneously
playing back one or more other wave files) ups and disappears – ME had it, XP
doesn’t.
With Wave selected as the Input on Microsoft Record Control, the record side
of software mixers I use on the XP OS (e.g. DSP Quartz AudioMaster, NCH Swift
Sound MixPad / WavePad) fail to acquire or record the wave signal(s) being
played back by the mixer side of the same application. Stand alone recorders
(e.g. Microsoft Sound Recorder, Roxio Easy Audio Capture, HotKey Sound
Recorder) also fail to acquire or record the wave signal(s) being played back
by the aforementioned mixers. But if I switch the Record Control app’s input
to Microphone during the record pass, the Mic records without incident to
whatever app I’ve designated as the recorder. Or if I launch Windows Media
Player, playback a CD and select Wave as the Record Control app’s input, CD
audio will be recorded to whatever app I’ve designated as the recorder. How
can this be? Shouldn’t the CD’s signal show up on Record Control’s CD Audio
input and, if so, what’s it doing on the Wave input and how do I rectify that
bogus assignment? If the CD has somehow captured the Wave input to the
Record Control app, is that what is inhibiting full duplex when it comes to
wave files?
Creative’s AutoUpdate shows all drivers for the SB Live! sound card are up
to date. DXDIAG sound tests are all successful with no problems (text file
results available if anyone cares to see them). But the manual test for
full-duplex capability (Microsoft Knowledge Base 310353 and 915092) using
twin Sound Recorders fails as the second copy (record-designated) Sound
Recorder does not acquire or record a signal from the first copy
(playback-designated) Sound Recorder (no error codes display at any time
during the test). Clean booting the XP OS and running the same twin Sound
Recorders test does not rectify the problem.
Because the same sound card with ME drivers allowed full-duplex operation
with wave files under the ME OS but that capability is lost under the XP OS,
I suspect something might be amiss in the XP drivers and/or Record/Play
Control apps that XP loaded during the OS install.
Anyone have a clue as to what’s going on here? And how to fix it? I’m
stumped.
TIA . . .