Matrox G400TV, DMA, WinME, Athlon 1ghz CPU!

[Nick_King]

Help!

I just purchased a new mobo (abit kt7a non-raid) and an athlon 1ghz cpu. I also purchased a new quantum 40gig 7200rpm hd (I also have 3 other 20 gig hard drives in the pc). I had to enable DMA in Windows ME to get a decent benchmark. My problem is when I capture the audio playback from the avi is all noisy and crackly, it doesn't sound anything like what it does when I'm actually capturing. If I disable DMA, it drops frames like hell but the audio is perfect.... any ideas?, anyone?

My soundcard is a genuine soundblaster live.

Everything worked fine on Friday in my old pentium 3 450mhz!

Thanks,
Nick

[AndrewDV]

Hi,

I have a somewhat-similar system. The issue you described is something that I just recently got over in my system.

Simply put, it was the SBLive causing problems. On Doc's advice, I purchased a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card. After installing it, the annoying issues went away. Great card! My system works really well now. The versajack is worth the upgrade alone!

[zeb7]

For about 12 days win98se was very unstable (blue screens)
at the moment i get blue screens about 1 every 2 weeks
and i know its because i'm listening to mp3's.
i can capture of 2Hrs / encode to mpeg2 for 18Hrs
but i can not play mp3's without that blue screen pooping up
I agree with Dr Mordrid the amd chipsets are buggy that's hope there's a software fix.


some settings that helped me.
in the bios
pic_irq channel 9 = force the iq for the G400 to 9
vga irq = on
usb irq = on

move the pci sound card to the last slot (is you SB ISA or PCI)

allso win98se would not boot with dos sound driver
look how i have REM'ed out the 2 lines in the autoexec.bat
rem SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
rem LH C:\WINDOWS\ASP4DOS.COM

if not try changing D1 to D3 or D5 (DMA for sound)

dose anybody have a sound card which works good with AMD MB's (please repliy)

[zeb7]

Hi AndrewDV thanks for advice on the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card!
anyone else good working soundcard with the AMD chipsets (KX/KT/KTa)

[JE]

I had the same Problems Blue screens and other mystical things on my new computer (1GHz Athlon, ABit KT7A, Promise 100, SBLive, G400+RR). After a call to Abit I installed a new Bios (YH beta). Till this all problems are gone. The Bios can be found on ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/general/devices/abit/bios/kt7/ .

JE

[wkulecz]

Keep it straight KX KT KTa are VIA chipsets not AMD.

The AMD 750 and 760 northbridge chip based motherboards give far fewer problems than VIA.

--wally.

[Nick_King]

Today I purchased the VIDEOLOGIC SONIC FURY and hey presto, works like a charm!

The SBLive is going in the bin (trash for all you Americans).

I now only get the occasional locking of the system when capturing, that's something I'm working on now.... WinME maybe?

Thanks,
Nick.

[zeb7]

About time i update my bios then, thanks JE


Thanks for putting me back on track Wally, what a dumb mistakes i made
will blame it on that flu/cold/virus.... i had

zeb,