Crackling on MCP-T sound?

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited January 2004 in Hardware
I've got an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe Revision 2.0 motherboard (from Newegg Refurb) in my girlfriend's PC. It works fine, except that the sound is at an unusually low volume out of the speakers for the volume on the slider bar, and it crackles each time I move the volume bar in Windows. I am using the latest nVidia chipset drivers from the nVidia website.

I seem to recall hearing about similar problems before, and some kind of driver tweak or something cleared it up? If I'm mistaken and it's not that, what should I do?

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  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Hmmm... Using headphones, 4 speakers, 2 speakers, 5 speakers, SPDIF 6 channel???? And if only out of BASS, please let us know, ok??? Unless someone knows for that board and speaker setup (once we know that), possible that if you are using headphones or two speakers that you plugged into the aux output and not the primary output also.... But last time I got that was on a different board, sorry, although in my case was a cord shorting....

    If no crackle at all with music volume up, see if you have digital sound going and if so pull up wave volume on mixer. Have had that on several sound systems embedded on mobos, sometimes low volume, in XP, results when digital sound input gets parsed through wave volume control (several volume mixers, including C-Media, Avant, have given me low volume overall unless I tweak wave and\or digital volume for music playing and games often parse through WAVE if the codec base set builtin is a 97AC(Audio Codec embedded set circa 1997)).

    I also had one guy, turned out he had audio feedback options enabled in software that came from sound chip mfr, silly driver set was clicking for volume increments.... URK!

    John.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    It's a 2.1 Channel Logitech system. I think it's the Z-340 speaker set. The cable is plugged into the green output on the back of the mobo. I'm pretty sure it's not the speakers causing the problem because they worked just fine with the previous motherboard, an A7N8X-Deluxe rev 1.04.

    I have wave volume control maxed out - and it clicks in both digital and analog mode...

    More suggestions are welcome!
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    get a soundcard, an old one, a spare one, whatever... put it in...perhaps u need an installing/uniinstalling of a component of windows (this is possible right? lol)
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Alright - I got rid of the crackling sound. I searched around and found a post on AMDforums that said to install the MSI nForce drivers on the Asus board. I did and it fixed it - sound is not crackling anymore! However, the volume seems a bit lower than it was on the rev 1.04 board - is this normal?
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