Sound Card.

[Guest]

Hallo, we have had no end of trouble with our HP computer but thankfully it
is under warranty. Just about everything except the power supply have been
replaced. We had trouble with NVIDIA GeForce Fx5200 video card but apparently
it has been modified or something. Every thing seems to be working ok but I
did a direct X diagnostic tool test on Direct Sound, everything sounded ok to
me but received this message when the test had finished:
"Your sound card does not support hardware buffering. Sounds will only play
back from software buffers"
Is this message anything to worry about, I want to make sure that we are
not going to have any more trouble with this computer.

 

[Guest]

Hi margs,

Take a read of the following link and see if that explains it a bit better,
I don't think you have anything to worry about, alot of computers use AC'97,
which may be the case with your sound card or on-board sound.

Link :
http://www.smartcomputing.com/techsupport/detail.aspx?guid=&ErrorID=22038

Hope that helps, let me know ?

Andy

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that link, yes we do have vinyl AC97 audio (wave). Looks like I
dont have much to worry about.

 

[Guest]

Thats ok Margie, glad I could help.

Andy

Thanks for that link, yes we do have vinyl AC97 audio (wave). Looks like I
dont have much to worry about.