Sound Card Problem

[kaotik]

Please help. I don't know what could be the problem. I have an external sound card. It's a Creative Extigy connected to my USB port. Now whenever I play music and I scroll or move the up and down button on the keyboard, music becomes garbled or sound like it's "dragging". Has anyone come across this problem? If so, please tell me a solution. Thanks

[Gillion]

Please help. I don't know what could be the problem. I have an external sound card. It's a Creative Extigy connected to my USB port. Now whenever I play music and I scroll or move the up and down button on the keyboard, music becomes garbled or sound like it's "dragging". Has anyone come across this problem? If so, please tell me a solution. Thanks

Konnichiwa Kaotick san !

ohhh you still alive ?

It can be one of many things

1) The driver you use needs to be updated
2) The CPU is too slow
3) The mother board is cheap ( which is the one I think is most
plausible)
4) The USB ports have NO buffers or filter capcitors, again a cheap main board problem
5) IRQ sharing (keyboard and mice use irq 1 and 12 respectively they don not share with anything normally) perhaps your usb port is using IRQ 11, so CHECK your video card and see what IRQ it is using. If it is using 11 try running without it
6) ACPI is interffering with USB (it can but I don't think its correctable)
7) You are using Windows (I had to squeeze that in somwhere)

--jaa matane
gillion

[kaotik]

Yes I'm alive and well, except for that sound card problem.

The Board is a CUPLE-VM with PIII 800 Processor with updated drivers from Creative.
How can I see which IRQs the video card is using?
Also this is my windows machine :P

[Gillion]

i can tell you how to do it it Linux, I have no idea how to in windows (never did) ohh wait i have vmware..... windows in cage if you must.... where it belongs.....

I found 2 methods
(1) Use this sequence : Start >> Programs >> Accessories >> System Tools -- > System Information
(2) Or go to control panel and select system then click on the Hardware tab, then select device manager, find the videocard entry and then highlight and right click it to select properties.... read the rest of the stuff there in resources.

Now if you do not want to use an IRQ for your VIDEO card, you can turn this option off in BIOS, I do however feel that this may affect your video accelerated hardware performance, you should also be able to turn off assignment of an irq to USB. These cannot guarantee a solution, only an experiment to resolution.

--jaa matane
Gillion

[kaotik]

I think maybe I should just get a new board. Can't bother with the hassle. Thanks anyway. ;D

[matronyx]

I think maybe I should just get a new board. Can't bother with the hassle. Thanks anyway. ;D


Is it the only board you got? I remember when you were asking for the latest drivers and all and couldnt find em...

[kaotik]

Yup it's the same board. Giving me hell!

[deakie]

try this.
go into bios and update the escd. you will have to enable it. its like updating your settings. there is sometimes options to enable the vid and usb irq's in there...toggle them after trying the above...

creative are reknown to have irq probs with their equipment.

[wheelman]

funny enough I have this same problem on my PIII 900Mhz board running XP with 256MB ram and 8MB onboard video. Then again its onboard Sound and Video so anything is possible.

I got more ram and it did the trick for me cuz you know XP eats lots of GDI resources not to mention with the services in the background.

[yogi_hm]

I had the same problem with a sound blaster live, using older drivers resolved the issue.