Upgraded to XP, Sound now Scratchy.

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Bob

I recently bought and installed Windows XP Professional.
Ever since all of the sound-bytes get cracky and
scratchy. Such things as log-on sounds, log-off sounds,
wav's and mp3's. It's especially bad during gameplay.
Both my Speakers and my Headphones get the distortion,
and both are in good working condition.

Here is a small list of things I have tried fo fix this:
1. Reinstall Drivers
2. Update Drivers
3. Rollback Drivers
4. Adjust volume levels
5. Mute Line/In
6. Switch to the On-Board AC'97 sound
7. Swap PCI Slots
8. Check Firmware connections
9. Search for firmware updates.
10. Mess around w/ DMA on the HD(thinking it was HD
distortion somehow)

After much work and much frustration nothing worked. The
On-Board sound does the same thing too. If any of you
have suggestions at how I can resolve this and get my
sound back to crystal quality I'd love to hear em!
Thanks for your time!
Bob.
P.S.-Here is a small run-down of my System Stats:
Athlon XP 1600+ Homebuilt system
512Megs of PC2700 DDR-RAM
128Meg GeForce4Ti4200 8xAGP
Sound Blaster Live! Value.
 
Just upgraded to WMP9, everything is still scratchy.

I had fresh installed XP after reformatting. Does WinXP
allow you to re-install over-top of itself like previous
versions? If so I may try that... also any other
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
-Bob
P.S.- It's not JUST music, but also system sounds, in-
game sounds etc.
 
| Just upgraded to WMP9, everything is still scratchy.
|
| I had fresh installed XP after reformatting. Does WinXP
| allow you to re-install over-top of itself like previous
| versions? If so I may try that... also any other
| suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
| -Bob
| P.S.- It's not JUST music, but also system sounds, in-
| game sounds etc.
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Upgrade to WMP9.
| >
| >Did you do a fresh install or an up-grade of XP ?
| >
| >Check out this site :
| http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#wmp9
| >
| >Cheers,
| >Jerry
| >
| >| >| I recently bought and installed Windows XP
| Professional.
| >| Ever since all of the sound-bytes get cracky and
| >| scratchy. Such things as log-on sounds, log-off sounds,
| >| wav's and mp3's. It's especially bad during gameplay.
| >| Both my Speakers and my Headphones get the distortion,
| >| and both are in good working condition.
| >|
| >| Here is a small list of things I have tried fo fix
| this:
| >| 1. Reinstall Drivers
| >| 2. Update Drivers
| >| 3. Rollback Drivers
| >| 4. Adjust volume levels
| >| 5. Mute Line/In
| >| 6. Switch to the On-Board AC'97 sound
| >| 7. Swap PCI Slots
| >| 8. Check Firmware connections
| >| 9. Search for firmware updates.
| >| 10. Mess around w/ DMA on the HD(thinking it was HD
| >| distortion somehow)
| >|
| >| After much work and much frustration nothing worked.
| The
| >| On-Board sound does the same thing too. If any of you
| >| have suggestions at how I can resolve this and get my
| >| sound back to crystal quality I'd love to hear em!
| >| Thanks for your time!
| >| Bob.
| >| P.S.-Here is a small run-down of my System Stats:
| >| Athlon XP 1600+ Homebuilt system
| >| 512Megs of PC2700 DDR-RAM
| >| 128Meg GeForce4Ti4200 8xAGP
| >| Sound Blaster Live! Value.
| >
| >

Yes, with WMP9 you can do a repair install which is basically re-installing
on top of itself. See the website I recommended. Its by a guy who designed
WMP..... !

Cheers,
Jerry
 
| Just upgraded to WMP9, everything is still scratchy.
|
| I had fresh installed XP after reformatting. Does WinXP
| allow you to re-install over-top of itself like previous
| versions? If so I may try that... also any other
| suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
| -Bob
| P.S.- It's not JUST music, but also system sounds, in-
| game sounds etc.
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Upgrade to WMP9.
| >
| >Did you do a fresh install or an up-grade of XP ?
| >
| >Check out this site :
| http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#wmp9
| >
| >Cheers,
| >Jerry
| >
| >| >| I recently bought and installed Windows XP
| Professional.
| >| Ever since all of the sound-bytes get cracky and
| >| scratchy. Such things as log-on sounds, log-off sounds,
| >| wav's and mp3's. It's especially bad during gameplay.
| >| Both my Speakers and my Headphones get the distortion,
| >| and both are in good working condition.
| >|
| >| Here is a small list of things I have tried fo fix
| this:
| >| 1. Reinstall Drivers
| >| 2. Update Drivers
| >| 3. Rollback Drivers
| >| 4. Adjust volume levels
| >| 5. Mute Line/In
| >| 6. Switch to the On-Board AC'97 sound
| >| 7. Swap PCI Slots
| >| 8. Check Firmware connections
| >| 9. Search for firmware updates.
| >| 10. Mess around w/ DMA on the HD(thinking it was HD
| >| distortion somehow)
| >|
| >| After much work and much frustration nothing worked.
| The
| >| On-Board sound does the same thing too. If any of you
| >| have suggestions at how I can resolve this and get my
| >| sound back to crystal quality I'd love to hear em!
| >| Thanks for your time!
| >| Bob.
| >| P.S.-Here is a small run-down of my System Stats:
| >| Athlon XP 1600+ Homebuilt system
| >| 512Megs of PC2700 DDR-RAM
| >| 128Meg GeForce4Ti4200 8xAGP
| >| Sound Blaster Live! Value.
| >

As I said, go to the website and read it through.

Cheers,
Jerry
 
Yes, with WMP9 you can do a repair install which is
basically re-installing
on top of itself. See the website I recommended. Its by a guy who designed
WMP..... !

Cheers,
Jerry
Click to expand...
Thing is this isn't a WMP problem, the problem is
surfacing in games and other programs. I've tried the
stuff for WMP9 and its not helpped :(
 
| >Yes, with WMP9 you can do a repair install which is
| basically re-installing
| >on top of itself. See the website I recommended. Its by
| a guy who designed
| >WMP..... !
| >
| >Cheers,
| >Jerry
| Thing is this isn't a WMP problem, the problem is
| surfacing in games and other programs. I've tried the
| stuff for WMP9 and its not helpped :(

Speakers on the blink ?
 
Speakers on the blink ?

I doubt it since both my Speakers and Headphones get
the distortion, and both were in full working order on
Windows98.
Is there anything about an OS ITSELF that can cause a
problem like this? It's the only thing I can think since

1.)speakers and headphones work fine on my other PC
2.)both AC'97 AND Soundblaster have the distortion, and
3.)Everything worked fine on Win98.

Also I just reformatted AGAIN and reinstalled WinXP, and
still have the trouble. :(
 
What a mission!
Same thing is happening to me, only I have a Creative
Vibra 128 card. Must be a compatability issue with the
Creative range? I've been searching for days for answers
and nothing yet. Will keep you posted if I find anything.
 
I've been searching for a solution for a similar problem. My system sounds
are only occasionally scratchy, and sometimes MP3's crackle. Where it
surfaces most is sound from my DVD drive and, to a lesser extant, my CD-ROM
drive.

My system is a Micron Millennia B51-1003, AMD 1Ghz Duron proc. Mobo is the
Gigabyte 7DX, which has the integrated AC'97 CODEC.

Everything was fine in Windows ME, and it's only after upgrading to XP Home
that I began to have this problem. I bought a Creative Extigy, which uses
USB 2.0, but with the same results on the DVD drive, although the CD-ROM
drive improved somewhat.

Nick
 
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