CMI 8738 PCI card makes Win XP freeze
Hello people,
Having some trouble here concerning a PCI soundcard that's admittedly quite cheap and nasty, but should at least work... only it doesn't.
Card: Trust SC-5250
Chipset: CMI 8738/C3DX
System: Win XP Pro 2002
Motherboard: ECS K7SOM+
Processor: AMD Duron 1.3 GHz
RAM: 224 MB
My problem is that no matter what I do, once I install the card it will only ever work for a maximum of around 4 seconds before Windows irretrievably freezes and I have to hard-reset the machine.
I've tried all the usual stuff - disable onboard sound, un/reinstall the card several times, try various different driver versions (from the Trust website, Creative's website and many other places besides), but no matter what I do, the effect is the same.
Any advice?
Having some trouble here concerning a PCI soundcard that's admittedly quite cheap and nasty, but should at least work... only it doesn't.
Card: Trust SC-5250
Chipset: CMI 8738/C3DX
System: Win XP Pro 2002
Motherboard: ECS K7SOM+
Processor: AMD Duron 1.3 GHz
RAM: 224 MB
My problem is that no matter what I do, once I install the card it will only ever work for a maximum of around 4 seconds before Windows irretrievably freezes and I have to hard-reset the machine.
I've tried all the usual stuff - disable onboard sound, un/reinstall the card several times, try various different driver versions (from the Trust website, Creative's website and many other places besides), but no matter what I do, the effect is the same.
Any advice?
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-drasnor
Have you tried installing the card in a different PCI slot? You may be having trouble with the card not wanting to share IRQs and a different PCI slot may share resources with a less-needy peripheral.
-drasnor
Thanks for the PCI slot suggestion. I tried that this evening with no luck - swapped it over to the slot that had previously housed my wireless card, but the same problem remained.
By the way, my device manager, under Sound, Video and Game Controllers, lists the following alongside the card itself and associated Midi controller ("MPU-401 compatible midi device"):
Audio Codecs
Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Video Capture Devices
Media Control Devices
Video Codecs
I guess this is all pretty standard stuff to have. However, if I double-click on any one of these and then click the Properties tab, it crashes Device Manager, bringing up the message "Microsoft Management Concole has encountered a problem and needs to close." The error signature is as follows:
AppName: mmc.exe AppVer: 5.1.2600.0 ModName: lameacm.acm
ModVer: 0.0.9.0 Offset: 0000116e
I have to admit that I don't really know what this means - however, could it be symptomatic of a wider problem?
lameacm.acm is the Windows version of the LAME mp3 audio codec. LAME is a pretty good codec but since it's open source people tend to bundle the unstable development versions in codec packs. Windows ships with the Fraunhoffer mp3 codec which is fine for most people so you don't really need LAME. Try uninstalling the LAME codec by running regsvr32.exe /u lameacm.acm from Start/Run.
-drasnor
I tried to uninstall Lame but got the following error:
lameacm does not appear to be a .DLL or .OCX file.
I would not be surprised in the slightest if the card doesn't like your motherboard. I have nothing nice to say on the quality of SiS chipsets, older ones in particular.
-drasnor