Sound card will only output crackling sound?

[K777]

Hello.

I recently bought a Sound Card for my new PC build. It is a Chinese one off ebay. (I went cheap because I only needed a card for the extra ports)

Here is the card: http://www.ebay.com/itm/140738512450

The sound card will only output loud crackling noises when it is installed into my new computer.

My motherboard is a BIOSTAR A960D+

When the card is installed into my old machine (an HP COMPAQ D530) it works flawlessly.

I use Linux ~ which recognizes the card as "ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)".

I have is plugged into the PCI (Not PCIe) slot on my motherboard.

I have tied changing the PCI settings in the BIOS to no avail.

Any ideas?

 

[nokiddingboss]

make sure that your onboard audio driver is properly remove then install the audio driver for your card. might be a conflict.

 

[K777]

make sure that your onboard audio driver is properly remove then install the audio driver for your card. might be a conflict.

I am using Linux as my OS. Linux uses Open Source generic drivers.

Both of my machines have the same OS and version, but the sound card will only work on my older one.

Could there be an issue with the PCI slot itself? (in my new motherboard.)

Thanks.

 

[nokiddingboss]

make sure that your onboard audio driver is properly remove then install the audio driver for your card. might be a conflict.

I am using Linux as my OS. Linux uses Open Source generic drivers.

Both of my machines have the same OS and version, but the sound card will only work on my older one.

Could there be an issue with the PCI slot itself? (in my new motherboard.)

Thanks.

missed that part about linux. i don't know much about linux so i can't help you there. but is your older system a linux machine as well? if it is then it might be your pci slot problem after all.

 

[K777]

More info: My sound card says "32 bits PCI Bus Master" and my system is obviously 64 bit. Could this have anything to do with why the card isn't working.

- I am by no means a hardware expert, so sorry if my questions sound stupid.

 

[genz]

The ESS 1946 chipset has only ever popped up in one widely sold unit in the past. A Compaq Presario laptop model.

It shows up as being compatible with Linux Kernels 2.6.0–2.6.39, 3.0–3.12 and shows up in the LKDDb. Of course without the PCI UID I can't tell you if any of this is true as I cannot identify what card this really is.

In the future you will be better served by stating what version and flavour of linux, and by not trusting the Chinese to state the correct chipset on ebay. If you can get me the Vendor and Model ID, I can see why you aren't pulling the drivers from the repo.

Bear in mind I am a pretty novice Linux user in comparison to everything else.

And btw, 32bit bus width is normal and nothing to do with 64bit architecture.


BTW, if none of that made sense to you, head to http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ and post there. they will be much better at breaking things down as unfortunately Linux still isn't THAT simple to me and TomsHardware is quite devoid of Linux expert due to Linux and gaming not going together well.

 

[K777]

The sound card would only output really loud static / crackling noises ~ even in the BIOS, there was loud noise coming from the speakers. Strangely though, the card works fine in my old computer.

I finally bought an old Sound Blaster for the same price and it works great. (is playing music as I type this) So I guess I can mark this as "solved".

THOUGH: If anyone has any other ideas about how to get the other card to work, I'm still open to suggestions.

This chip on the card reads "ess Maestro-2E ES1978S B22 TTV47839S".

I use both Puppy Linux version 5.6 (Kernel 3.10.5) and Kubuntu 13.10 (Kernel 3.11.0-12).

-- I knew that most users here are gamers running MS Windows, but I figured it would be the best place to post hardware specific issues. - Have read many threads here prior to signing up and posting.

Thanks.

 

[gamerk316]

Might be an IRQ problem; can't think of anything other then that...

 

[genz]

Might be an IRQ problem; can't think of anything other then that...

Linux does not have IRQ.

And @OP, those blasts of noise will be Linux trying to use the hardware thinking it is another piece of hardware, which is why it is impossible to fix the problem without you giving me Vendor and Model IDs from lspci. You can read off the chip but that won't help because I don't work for ESS manufacturing and it seems they are using the same ID for two different chips. I need to know what the chip inside identifies itself as.