Aug 29, 2003 12:57 pm the signals not clipping is it...as in the sound gets too loud and digitally distorts? or are ya thinking its a hardwear issue?
pops and clicks
Posted on Aug 28, 2003 08:26 pm
Clansonkid
MegaMan
Member Since: Mar 05, 2003
ok, i am using the audiophile2496 with a small behringer 8 input mixer and a di box. i am getting pops and clicks still, i have tried many things with this audiocard to get this to stop. it is very annoying, SOMEONE help!
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Aug 29, 2003 12:57 pm the signals not clipping is it...as in the sound gets too loud and digitally distorts? or are ya thinking its a hardwear issue?
Aug 29, 2003 01:42 pm I also have a eurorack mixer and 2496 card with a di box. I had this problem initially with windoze xp. Tried everything - nothing fixed it. Finally due to other technical reasons I backed up all my work and reformatted the drive, reinstalled win xp. From there on out i've had no more problems, and have recorded many tracks. I hope you don't have to do this too, but it helped me.
Aug 29, 2003 01:44 pm what version of drivers are you using, go to M-Audio .com and make SURE you have the most recent, new ones have been released within the last couple months.
Aug 29, 2003 02:02 pm why didnt i think of that..this only got mentioned recently...
Aug 29, 2003 02:03 pm Because you still have much to learn, young Jedi.
Aug 29, 2003 02:10 pm and im a hungover jedi too...
Aug 29, 2003 02:42 pm I had this problem with my delta card too. The thing that fixed it for me was switching to Standard PC mode. Perhaps that's what you did when you reinstalled XP, Flame. That is one way to do it.
Aug 29, 2003 09:54 pm PCI IRQ conflicts - they can be resolved in the BIOS by assining each PCI Port its I/O by hand.
However, this is every bit as easy as it sounds...
The easier way to try and reolve such a problem is to try another PCI slot in your PC - same principle as above in a round-about-way.
jues.
Aug 29, 2003 10:03 pm Yes, that may be it too... Or I guess the two things go hand in hand (Irq conflicts and ACPI/standard PC modes)... Not that I'm pretending to know what the heck the BIOS/IRQ is... or maybe I am :)
Aug 29, 2003 10:09 pm When you switch to "standard PC mode", windows releases the control of all the PCI slots (and lots of other things) which allows you to specify IRQs to various things.
ACPI is much quicker tho, and is how your system should be running.
Aug 29, 2003 10:31 pm I knew it! So is it possible to fix the problem and still be running in ACPI?
Aug 29, 2003 10:37 pm Yes, you just have to go into your BIOS and tell the PCI bridge controller which IRQ's are to be allocated to the PCI Slots - just make sure you pick open IRQ's 5 and 7 are usually free of conflicts.
This is where your Motherboard's Manual comes in handy - also, as long as you are careful, you won't do any harm to your comptuer at all.
jues.
Aug 30, 2003 01:36 am oh man it's so easy to screw that up though...the "try another PCI slot" thing was the golden fix.
Aug 30, 2003 06:59 am [quote] just make sure you pick open IRQ's 5 and 7 are usually free of conflicts.
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Actually, that would be port 5 OR 7, usually one of them is free, those commonly are parallel post IRQ's used by printers, scanner and such before USB became commonplace.
Typically for your higher-usage components such as recording sound cards, video cards (especially video cards) and other heavy cards like that it is best to shuttle them between IRQ's 11, 10 and 9, the higher IRQ's. Save the lower IRQ's for things like your NIC, modem, SoundBlaster card if only used for playback and lower usage cards like those.
ACPI, well, you are not the first one to have problems relating to ACPI. But things are getting better, driver programmers are getting better in dealing with that.
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