One for the hardware anoraks

The onboard sound on my Gigabyte board packed up. I have disabled it with the jumper and installed a new soundcard which works fine. Now whenever i start a game which uses my voodoo card the computer just freezes and has to be turned off. If I remove the soundcard the games run ok. I have tried reloading the drivers and the games but no joy

I have also tried the soundcard in 3 different pci slots and it makes no differance. also windows reports no conflicts on either device.

Wazza you can take over as UT champion while I am out of action.

Paul

There will be something in the bios settings, press del when the HDD are being detected. Disable onboard sound there. Also make sure you have un-installed the other sound drivers. Best way is to go into safe mode and right click on mycomputer, properties then device manager. Under Sound, video devices you will see all the old hardware there. highlight the ones you dont want and press del.

Is your voodoo AGP? If so try not to have you Soundcard in the top PCI slot because the AGP and top PCI share the same IRQ.

 

Stuart

i would go with a reinstall of windows. what ver of windows is it? sometimes even if you disable the jumper on the board the drivers will still load and possibly conflict with the new drivers for the new soundcard.

 

what type of crash is it? can you press ctrl-alt-del? if so what process isn't responding?

you cant ctrl alt del it the screen goes dark and has to be switched off. The voodoo card is AGP. I have managed to get rid of the onboard sound drivers (it was the same as the card I have just bought creative 128 pci)

I am using win 98 ver 2

I will have another look in the bios

 

[This message has been edited by paulg (edited 11-11-2001).]

i think i have my pc sorted now all i need to do now is get to get with all my new goodies and windows xp tooley the luddite returns

Paul,

 

soundcards (especially PnP Sounblaster cards) are usually recommended to be installed in PCI slot 2 which is the third one down from the top. This is because of the default IRQs that get assigned to the ports. Ignore the sound card manual which normally said to install it in the top slot, they say this to improve the performance of their card but it will conflict and cripple your graphics card (whether it is installed in PCI slot 0 (top one) or the AGP port.

 

Regarding configuration, I agree with what the others have said.

1) Disable in BIOS if there is such an option. Jumper disabling should be enough though (its all I use)

2) Use the Deveice Manager as has been said to disable the devices in Windows

3) Go to Control Panel and open the "Multimedia" or "Sounds and Audio Devices Properties" program (the name will depend on what version of Windows you are running. Go to the Audio tab and at the bottom, there is a tick box that says "Use only default devices". Tick this but also make sure that the default devices, which are shown on the same screen, are set to be using your PCI soundcard.

 

Andy

If its a Creative Labs SB (esp. Live!) the drivers are shite

Run Xp Pro if you can get a copy, it sorted my Radeon DDR, SBLive, SB1024, Firewire, SCSI, NIC and Raid Controller without needing ONE driver disk.

And it hasnt crashed once

(you need a gig of Ram to run it nice tho!)

Glen

Ahh. Are you running XP, there are no offical XP sound drivers out yet. Lucky the ones I had worked before XP decided to go tits up.

 

Stuart