Soundcard problem
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Posted on Feb 06, 2012 03:04 pm
iknowledge
Member Since: Jan 21, 2009
I just built this computer, it was my first build and everything went fairly smooth. I was making music in fl and I switched the asio driver onto my soundcard and saw the sound spike up and remain constant. I plugged my headphones into the headphone jack from the soundcard and heard this high pitched frequency along with a bad hissing. My studio monitors have been acting weird lately too, I've been getting a lot of hissing that pops in and out, and sometimes when I select my monitors as the default device the audio won't play.
My specs are :
Asus Xonar DG soundcard
Phenom II X4
Win 7
Biostar A880G+ Motherboard
also I have Alesis M1Active studio monitors
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Feb 07, 2012 07:50 am Have you checked the sound cards compatibility with Windows 7? The most recent driver seems to be from back in October of 2011 or so...did you install the right one, between the 32 and 64 bit versions? Have you tried ASIO4ALL to see if that is better?
Realize that that is, for all practical purposes, a gaming card, not a real audio recording card...not saying it can't work, but it may have performance limitations when running in full duplex mode with multiple audio streams.
Feb 07, 2012 09:53 am The drivers are all updated, I just tried Asio a few hours ago and every time I switched to it and I got no audio. I put it in a different pci slot and that seemed to help for a few hours or so then it started hissing again. It's not a repetitive pop or crackle either. Just comes and goes randomly. I wonder if I'd be better off taking the sound card out and using only the onboard sound.
Feb 07, 2012 10:35 am I wouldn't pull it out, it's GOT to be better than the onboard sound.
OK, let's forget ASIO...does it have a WDM option? Perhaps it just does not roll with ASIO, try WDM...I have had some card simply perform better with WDM than ASIO...depends on the device.
Feb 07, 2012 10:53 am Whats WDM? I'm pretty new to learning all of this, sorry bro.
Feb 07, 2012 11:02 am WDM is Microsoft's driver standard...most any Windows approved audio device supports it, and, it's pretty darn good.
Feb 07, 2012 09:22 pm no, they are usually bundled with the sound card driver install
Feb 07, 2012 10:07 pm Would Realtek be one of the WDM's. If so I've already got that installed.
Feb 20, 2012 12:41 am I reinstalled realtek driver, re installed the driver for the soundcard it worked good for a few days with no slicks or pops then it went back to normal and clicked, popped and hissed a lot. I took the soundcard out to see if that helped and now it only clicks and pops when audio is coming from the internet, ie. youtube and netflix.
