clothesburner
Location: USA
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 Posted - Mon Aug 04, 2003 1:52 pm
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...had an instance where their playback signal sounded metallic?
Another way to describe this is to say it sounded as though the sample rate was set too high or low causing the signal to sound like robot music.
For anyone who has time to read this, I am going to describe a situation that happened to me recently.
Not that I wish this situation on anyone, but hopefully, someone will have some experience with this and be able to help me out.
About two months ago after configuring 98SE for audio, I installed Musicmatch. For anyone familiar with Musicmatch, you know that when it opens, theme music plays.
Well, when it opened, this was the first time I ever heard a metallic signal come out of my machine, but CEP played fine so I just ignored it (I hardly even use Musicmatch except to copy cds to hard drive.)
Well, about two weeks ago while playing tracks through CEP, yep, you guessed it, the signal turned metallic.
For any of you that are familiar with my posts you know I have three M-audio soundcards: (2) Delta 66s and a 1010. The card I was monitoring through at the time was a 66. At first I thought my card was gone, but when I switched slots, it played fine, however the 66 I moved to the slot the other came out of did not.
Must be the slot, right?
Wrong.
After uninstalling and re-installing CEP and trying every imaginable M-audio driver I could get my hands on I finally decided to upgrade to the machine I am using now, a P4 2.6 Ghz Northwood Processor with a Gigabyte 8IK1100 (featuring the new Intel Canterwood chipset), and guess what, the same thing is happening.
All of the soundcards are on their own IRQ.
I'm using the most recent M-audio Drivers with Win XP/SP1.
I've done very little to tweak Windows, just the basic stuff like switch 32-bit monitor over to 16-bit, etc. etc. and I don't have a clue of what to do next.
Any suggestions?
I guess the best way to sum this up is say that in PCI Slot 2 I have a Delta 1010, in PCI Slot 3, I have a Delta 66, and in PCI slot 4, I have another Delta 66.
I normally monitor through the Delta 66 that is in PCI slot 4 however, now, some reason if I monitor through this card, the signal sounds metallic.
Monitoring through other cards sounds fine.
If I take the soundcard that is in PCI slot 4 and put it in PCI Slot 3, and the soundcard that is in PCI slot 3 and put it in PCI Slot 4, it is whatever card is in PCI slot 4 that does not play correctly.
With my old machine, the only thing that was different is that I was PCI slot 5 instead of 4 and whichever one was in 5 was the one that would not play correctly.
If I need to supply anymore information just ask.
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clothesburner
Location: USA
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Posted - Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:45 pm
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All of the cables check out fine. As so far as mystified goes, you think you are? Try talking to one of the guys at M-audio.
After talking to those guys, the only resolve we could come to was for me to send them the two Delta 66s and let them test them. It's almost as if "those particular" cards have conflicts with one another. One alone works fine, both together... AAAARRRRGGGHHH!
But the guys at M-audio are going to take care of me, I feel confident. The only thing I can't figure out is WHY ME!!!!!
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clintfan
Location: USA
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Posted - Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:40 pm
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Here's one thought for your new mobo, but it doesn't explain why the old one had problems too.
If you're not using the firewire, try going to the "Integrated Peripherals" BIOS screen and disable the "Onboard H/W 1394", which should be your firewire, and see if it cures the ringing problem. It might be sharing with your slot 4, no way to tell for sure from here.
Hope this helps,
-clintfan
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