soundcard problems with Gigabyte K8VM800M

[BigB]

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Hi,

I have noticed when I perform intenstive computations while I am listening
to music (mp3), the sounds will skip and jump. This happens with both winamp
and iTunes. I have noticed this happen with both the built-in soundcard on
the motherboard and my own personal PCI sound card.

I dont think this is something that is usual, I can't believe that people
would put up with this from a computer. So I am assuming that I have some
configuration set incorrectly.

Does anyone else have similar problems?
Is there anything you do something about it?

Thanks in advance.
Brett.

---
AMD64 3200 processor
512 PC-3200 DDR RAM

 

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"bigb" <bigb@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have noticed when I perform intenstive computations while I am listening
> to music (mp3), the sounds will skip and jump. This happens with both
> winamp
> and iTunes. I have noticed this happen with both the built-in soundcard on
> the motherboard and my own personal PCI sound card.
>
> I dont think this is something that is usual, I can't believe that people
> would put up with this from a computer. So I am assuming that I have some
> configuration set incorrectly.
>
> Does anyone else have similar problems?
> Is there anything you do something about it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Brett.
>

Usually these problems show if:
1) Bad IRQ sharing like sound irq shared with video card
2) DMA problem - ide driver not working correctly

 

[BigB]

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Well I checked and there doesn't seem to be any problems with conflicts on
the IRQ interrupts.

What does IDE have anything to do with it? Both the sound cards that I tried
are on the PCI bus. Am I missing something here?

Brett.

"SteveK" <nospam@iPrimus.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> "bigb" <bigb@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2IOdnc6FrY-dymzcRVn-sQ@adelphia.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have noticed when I perform intenstive computations while I am
listening
> > to music (mp3), the sounds will skip and jump. This happens with both
> > winamp
> > and iTunes. I have noticed this happen with both the built-in soundcard
on
> > the motherboard and my own personal PCI sound card.
> >
> > I dont think this is something that is usual, I can't believe that
people
> > would put up with this from a computer. So I am assuming that I have
some
> > configuration set incorrectly.
> >
> > Does anyone else have similar problems?
> > Is there anything you do something about it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Brett.
> >
>
> Usually these problems show if:
> 1) Bad IRQ sharing like sound irq shared with video card
> 2) DMA problem - ide driver not working correctly
>
>
>
>

 

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Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

I had that same problem, on an Asus board and SB Live. It was an IRQ
conflict. NO errors in windows, but random skips.

I moved the card to another PCI slot, which (on that board) assigned a
different IRQ, problems went away. Can you re-assign an IRQ thru the BIOS to
something less used?


"bigb" <bigb@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2IOdnc6FrY-dymzcRVn-sQ@adelphia.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed when I perform intenstive computations while I am listening
> to music (mp3), the sounds will skip and jump. This happens with both
> winamp
> and iTunes. I have noticed this happen with both the built-in soundcard on
> the motherboard and my own personal PCI sound card.
>
> I dont think this is something that is usual, I can't believe that people
> would put up with this from a computer. So I am assuming that I have some
> configuration set incorrectly.
>
> Does anyone else have similar problems?
> Is there anything you do something about it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Brett.
>
> ---
> AMD64 3200 processor
> 512 PC-3200 DDR RAM
>
>

 

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"bigb" <bigb@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well I checked and there doesn't seem to be any problems with conflicts on
> the IRQ interrupts.

It's not a matter of an irq conflict - it could be a share-load problem!


> What does IDE have anything to do with it? Both the sound cards that I
> tried are on the PCI bus. Am I missing something here?
>
> Brett.

usually the music is played from a CD or HD - both are depending on a proper
working ide/sata DMA bus.
If the DMA is not working smooth enough it can cause sound skipping.
U have all latest mobo drivers installed?
http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-K8VM800M.htm

Have u disabled onboard sound in the bios?


.....

 

[BigB]

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"SteveK" <nospam@iPrimus.com.au> wrote in message
news:41f20fd6$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au...
> "bigb" <bigb@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:tI2dnWNOQo1XZWzcRVn-vg@adelphia.com
> > Well I checked and there doesn't seem to be any problems with conflicts
on
> > the IRQ interrupts.
>
> It's not a matter of an irq conflict - it could be a share-load problem!

Since I have a 3GHz 64-bit number cruncher installed and my old PCs haven't
had problems like this, I'm assuming there's something else going on.

>
> > What does IDE have anything to do with it? Both the sound cards that I
> > tried are on the PCI bus. Am I missing something here?
> >
> > Brett.
>
> usually the music is played from a CD or HD - both are depending on a
proper
> working ide/sata DMA bus.
> If the DMA is not working smooth enough it can cause sound skipping.
> U have all latest mobo drivers installed?
>
http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-K8VM800M.htm
>
> Have u disabled onboard sound in the bios?

Yes, i've installed the latest drivers, and I tried uninstalling the onboard
sound card too.

I also tried moving the PCI slot and that didn't help, although the results
were slightly different. Better for winamp upon minimisation. iTunes
minimisation caused just as many glitches though.

Brett.