Sound card common 7 major faults

First, the problem of the sound of violence

Beep is the most common sound card problem, here we first to understand the cause of the sound.

1, sound card and chipset conflict

This failure usually occurs when the new sound card with the old motherboard, such as the innovative release of the Audigy chip sound card, and via the motherboard is inconsistent, there is a beep or even the problem of skipping, these failures can be updated motherboard BIOS or upgrade the sound card driver solution.

2, the IDE set the problem

A friend often encounter such a problem, through the CD-ROM drive DVD, you will find that the sound is more serious, and the file copied to the hard disk playback, there is no sound. The optical drive may be out of PIO mode at this time, and it can be changed to DMA mode. Modify the operating mode of the optical drive in the Control Panel hardware manager. If the problem is not resolved after Setup, the motherboard chipset driver may need to be updated.

3, power failure

A sound card is a more sensitive device to the power supply, so a good PC power supply is helpful for improving sound quality. In the combination of inferior power supply, may often appear in the sound, especially those with power amplifier circuit card, power a little bit of fluctuations will cause noise and even sound, this situation only to replace the power or sound card.

4, PCI equipment contention for bandwidth

When the CPU load is large or a large number of data replication, there is a beep, this is the sound card driver execution level is too low to compete with other devices for bandwidth caused by, in general, the sound card manufacturers to achieve the stability of the system. This happens very easily when using a PCI video card because the PCI device is competing for bandwidth.

Second, not audible fault

In some cases, the sound card can be recognized, but also can successfully install the driver, but it is not audible, view the device resources, show no resources available or conflict of resources, resulting in the device is unavailable. This situation is mostly the same as the network card contention address, rearrange the sequence of PCI slots can be resolved, if the display of resource conflicts, you can also try to allocate resources manually.

Third, the installation of multiple sound card

Installing multiple sound cards in one system is a problem, especially when using the same audio accelerator. Sound card installation is the most easily conflict place is the game port, they are often assigned to the same resources, in the start of the easy blue screen, or one of the unusable, this time should be banned from one. Because some of the driver's file structure is very similar, from the public version of the driver to change, so some sound cards can not work together. This is because the system does not correctly assign resources to the sound card, the replacement operating system should be able to resolve.

Four, install the old sound card under Windows Server2003

Server2003 is Microsoft's newest server operating system, which began to give up support for all of the ISA devices and old PCI devices from beta, including the classic AWE64 Gold sound card, AWE64 gold under Server2003 is just a yellow marvel , but this does not mean that AWE64 gold cannot work in Server2003. In addition, in order to save resources, Server2003 by default is unable to make the sound card audible, even if you correctly installed the driver. In Windows2003, there is a service called Windows Audio, the default boot state is prohibited, changed to Automatic mode, and then restarted.

V. Noise problems

A friend often complains that his sound card is noisy, which may be the other device channel on the sound card is not mute. Open Windows's own mixer. Close all channels outside of the channel you are using, this will bring a good quality improvement, especially for some PCB design has a certain flaw in the sound card. In addition, there are some noise is the sound card itself caused by poor anti-interference, plus the host and did not access the ground, this should let the PC grounding, so the computer will be more secure.

Six, unable to play multiple audio streams

When you use some old sound cards under Windows98, you will find that when you play the music, other sounds will not come out, because the sound card is not well supported by multiple audio streams and can be solved by installing Microsoft's WDM drive.

Vii. Delay of DirectSound

Some sound card itself processing power is not very strong, when not full load operation, playback DirectSound audio stream may be delayed phenomenon or some basic DirectSound sound effects to the CPU to operate, this will reduce the operating efficiency of the program. In the Run dialog box, enter: DxDiag and execute.

Pull the full acceleration (Hardware accelerator) slider to the right, so that the overall acceleration of the main DSP chip on the sound card can be enabled.