Thanks
The sound has never been very good but was bearable. The problem seems
to have come to a head when I changed the sound card from SB PCI512 to a
Trust card, in an effort to improve it. The onboard sound has never been
very good and has been disabled in BIOS except for recent experimentation.
WinME is installed on a FAT32 partition of a 160GB SATA HDD.
The installation of XP was a clean install on an NTFS formatted
partition on the same drive using Acronis OS Selector to hide the ME
installation from it. This seems to have worked OK as XP cannot see the
ME partition and vice versa.
On XP with nothing else installed, or running, except the Audigy the
sound problem is exactly the same.
I am beginning to think that pushing in the old sound card and then
removing it could have flexed the Mobo somehow, possibly damaging one of
the printed circuits or something, but only the sound system seems to
have been affected.
Although its only a few years old, the Mobo (MSI 857P NEO-FIS2R, circa
2003) is probably obsolete now.
Stephen
Mart wrote:
Having also read your recent reply to Harry (elsewhere as a sub-thread in
this topic) the only other suggestion I can think of at this stage is to try
a fresh install - on a spare HDD!!! - and to try some elimination
experiments.
Do you have access to a spare (empty) HDD - a couple of Gigs or so - which
you could use?
If so pull both your C and D drives temporarily, fit the spare as the C only
and clean install WinMe (or XP if you prefer, but you are in a WinMe news
group!)
See if the problem still exists and go forward from that point. You should
only need a minimum installation (no updates etc. should be needed for this
experiment). Try the on-board sound if necessary and try to
isolate/eliminate/confirm the mobo as the cause.
I can't remember if you said earlier, whether the sound has ever worked with
this mobo even with any previous sound card that you've tried
"Stephen" wrote in message
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I haven't been able to try Audigy on a different PC.
I have tried disabling all the fancy add-ons on this and other cards,
different combinations of volume settings on card and speakers, replace
speakers with headphones, all to no avail.
I am beginning to think there may be a dodgy joint on the bits of the MOBO
that deal solely with sound, if there are such things.
MEMTEST 86 showed no errors after 4 passes, after the PC had been running
all day.
Stephen
Mart wrote:
Stephen wrote earlier :-
... problem is exactly the same - all sounds are grossly distorted.
I've just noticed a further line in the Creative blurb under
'Introduction' :-
"Easily hook it up to the USB port of your PC or Notebook and get ready
for major sensory overload in your music, games and movies."
A *major sensory overload* ?? Perhaps the distortion is there by design
g
Seriously though, are you sure that the settings of the 'sliders' in the
various Volume Control Properties (on your System Tray) aren't set too
high? It's even beginning to look like your Audigy2NX USB sound card
might even be faulty. Are you able to try it on a completely different
computer , if only for elimination purposes. But it is still most weird
that all sound devices that you've apparently tried on your existing PC
give you the same problem.
Mart
"Stephen" wrote in message
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I have USB 2 on both ME and XP.
The device is connected to the Enhanced USB controller via a USB
composite device.
The user manual does not offer any help and the Creative diagnostics
programme that came with the device shows no errors.
The Creative web site didn't offer much help either.
Stephen
Mart wrote:
Just a thought, from
http://www.creative.com/products/pro...t=910 3&nav=4
Under *Minimum* Requirements, although it states that it is WinMe
compatible, it goes on to somewhat ambiguously say :-
Available USB port (USB 2.0 port required for USB 2.0 support)
Is it 'fully' compatible with USB 1.1 ? Does the user
manual/help/support offer any further advice?
Do you have USB 2.0 on your PC ?
If not, it might be worth/necessary to fit a PCI - USB 2.0 card. Won't
do any harm anyway, especially with a couple of (much) faster USB ports
g
Just a thought g
Mart
"Stephen" wrote in message
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Thank you for your reply.
Onboard sound is disabled in the Bios and no drivers have been
installed
Stephen
Heirloom wrote:
Ah..........has the 'onboard' sound been disabled?? There may be a
conflict between the onboard sound and the USB device. The disabling
of the onboard sound may be as simple as changing/adding a strap to
your MOBO or a setting in the BIOS, check with your MOBO maker to be
sure.
Heirloom, old and it's too
early
"Stephen" wrote in message
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The sound card is a USB device, not a PCI card. I chose this option
because I couldn't get either a Trust or a Creative PCI sound card to
work, or the onboard sound.
Stephen
Noel Paton wrote:
Oh dear - this does look, in this case, as if it's a hardware
problem.
Which slot is the sound card in? - try moving it away from the AGP
slot, as these are sometimes locked together.