NF7-S 2.0 sound problems

croc_croc_ New
edited November 2003 in Hardware
Well my friends motherboard (K7T266 pro) died last week, and we went out and got him an NF7-S + 2500+. Everything installed great and we had no problems. But ... after I left he noticed the sound was scratchy, like a blown speaker (he uses the same headphones as me, sennheiser 580's, we know its not those because they sound great on his cd deck). I told him it is a driver problem and I will look at it when I go up this weekend, but I was wondering if anyone has had a similar problem? I remember with my shuttle I had to install the realtek sound drivers instead of the nvidia ones to get rid of the scratchyness, but that was on an MCP board. Could it be anything else? He has nothing plugged into any pci slots (because the mobo has everything!!), and a radeon 9700 pro in the agp.

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  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Newest drivers should fix it better than new! ;)

    ps:
    install the whole Nvidia driver suite.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited November 2003
    mtgoat had this to say
    Newest drivers should fix it better than new! ;)

    ps:
    install the whole Nvidia driver suite.

    We installed the newest Forceware - 3.13, WHQL.

    Installed the full suite.

    Fresh install of XP, almost nothing else is installed except nVidia Forceware, ATI Catalyst Suite and Steam.

    Crackles like a mofo.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    MMmmm....

    Haven't had this problem myself or with the 4 others I recently assited with. I never conclude anything till I have all the Windows updates installed and all the systems I'm referencing have ATI cards and the basics.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited November 2003
    Well, his system has everything updated. So IDK. One thing, he does have DDR266 ram installed. I will bring a stick of 512MB kingston hyperx DDR333 and test that out when I go up also.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    You might want to try uninstalling the drivers, clean the reg and do a new driver install. I remember some peeps having that same thin now and that was how they fixed it. Proly just a bad install which happens from time to time.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Try looking here and see if there is anything that helsp you. You may need to look around for what you want but this will put you in the vicinity.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited November 2003
    Ok, we are going to try these things, in this order.

    ACPI (Device manager "driver update trick)
    Ram (samsung DDR266, he needs to upgrade this anyways)
    Drivers (reinstall)
    PSU (he has an old raidmax 350w, should work fine, but it is old)

    If none of that works ... I guess he will RMA the board.

    BTW thanks for the help. :)
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    It's a known problem unfortunatly. Lately, i have starting having that issue as well, but i blame high fsb for that and/or an old bios revision. As far as i know, the crackling only comes out of the heafphone jack and not from the optical. Try and see if you can route the front speakers (where your headphones probably are) to another plug. I think you can do that through windows or Abit's soundstorm utility.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Mac

    The only peeps I know of with that problem are the ones using the old bios and or drivers. Am I wrong here? :O
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited November 2003
    Would a bios update help at all? I guess it wouldn't hurt .... I'll do that too.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    You might be right, but i can't proove it. No chance reaching 240+ fsb on any other bios than 10, let alone 250.

    Does anybody have a copy of the Bios 14 BETA? That's supposed to run well also.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited November 2003
    huh? hes not overclocking :O
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    BIOS 14beta is what I used to hit 242 and haven't hit it again since switching but I have heard of some doing well with 19 on the newer boards. I think 19 is the least buggy overall. I can't even make this thing fart or burp if I wanted to since going to it.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Mute the mic channel. See if it fixes it.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited November 2003
    hmmm, well he uses the mic alot, so I don't know if thats the best solution. BTW lol@last line in your sig thrax.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    mtgoat had this to say
    BIOS 14beta is what I used to hit 242 and haven't hit it again since switching but I have heard of some doing well with 19 on the newer boards. I think 19 is the least buggy overall. I can't even make this thing fart or burp if I wanted to since going to it.

    Still have 14 beta around there Larry? Pleeeeeezzze?
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Mac

    Here ya go. ;)
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    What thrax said. Mute Mic, and try muting line in too.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Cheers Larry!
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