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**Greebe** · 22 June 2001, 11:05

It cannot be the MB or U would hear it in all channels.

I'd suspect that it could be the sound cards right (front?) channel is going bad. A leaking cap could induce dc current into that preamp stage and cause it to be incorrectly biased. Or there could be a bad/poor connection on it's output causing this.

Are you absolutely sure it's not also occuring in the other channels albiet much lower level?

**nehalmistry** · 22 June 2001, 12:07

its not bad connection... i tried many headphones speakers...,.

it also happens on lineout as well as amplified speaker out... i doubt its a connection problem... happened as soon as i switched mobo...

im absolutely positive it doesnt happen on other channels.. i tried cd and midi.. and they are both fine... i tested again and again... its only the wave/pcm output.. and only the right channel.,.. i'm 99.9% sure.,.

PS: long time no see greebe

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**dZeus** · 22 June 2001, 16:21

just by coincidence I know 2 other people who've got the clicking stuff on one of their soundcard's channels, and they also both have got a SBAwe32.

Makes you wonder

**Jorden** · 22 June 2001, 16:33

I've got an SB32 PnP the little brother of the Awe32, and I had that problem in the past in Windows98.

My solution was unplugging all speakers from the soundcard, unplugging all leads to all speakers. Then I updated the drivers to the very last that were ever made and updating DirectX. Cleaning all the connectors, replugging every plug and my problem was gone.

Jord.

**nehalmistry** · 22 June 2001, 17:06

Jordan:

cleaning the heads or reconnecting the connectors wont help (even though i did already a hundred times) since it only happens throught the PCM channel.... and i already have the latest drivers for both operating systems...

its surely something to do with the voltage or something like that..

dZeus: can you ask and see if they ever got it fixed... and how they did it if so

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**dZeus** · 23 June 2001, 01:17

they never could fix it.. but if they do find a fix, I'll put it up on the forum.

VJ · 27 June 2001, 00:53

I had a similar problem with an AWE32, this only occured after insterting an Adaptec 2940UW scsi-controller.

Apparently (I don't know the exact explanation), there is a problem with the Creative AWE32 not getting enough time to use the bus (if certain pci-card become busmaster). I checked the faqs of my mainboard (Spacewalker Shuttle HOT661), and the mention a solution for the Soundblaster in combination with certain videocards. The problem they described was exactly the same as the one I had, so I tried it, and it worked for me.

Somewhere in the bios, there is a setting called "passive release". By default this setting is disabled. The faq stated I should enable this. And it worked !

(I'll search the link on shuttle's website)

Jörg

VJ · 27 June 2001, 00:58

http://www.spacewalker.com/english/support/faq/faq.htm

Go to Chipset Based q&a

Intel, choose "slot 1" (select hot-661)

scroll down to the last question.

Perhaps there is something similar on your mainboard ?

Jörg

**LvR** · 27 June 2001, 03:10

Also read through this link, and see what Haig had to say.

http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/For...ML/003537.html

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Lawrence

**nehalmistry** · 27 June 2001, 06:32

HMMM... well i think i've found the problem, apparently i never had a problem with my old problem because if i recall correctly... i *think* it was enabled...

anyway, this motherboard does NOT have anything with passive release i checked bios... you can check manual urself and see if its called something... but the manual is made in taiwan and the explanations are so primitive it's not even worth looking..

Lvr: it is not a driver problem... and drivers probably can't fix this... but i have latest...

VJ · 27 June 2001, 07:09

I seem to have problems downloading the manual from www.gigabyte.com.tw ... I will try again tomorrow...

Do you have any other/better links to the same file ?

Perhaps if you mailed gigabyte's tech support, specifically asking about the passive release ?

Jörg

PS: Whatever you do, don't get rid of the card ! (it is a great card, I have a similar one) I also had to search a while to get it back to work after inserting my 2940UW..

VJ · 27 June 2001, 07:28

Just got an idea !
Does the board have different isa slots ?
(some boards with multiple isa slots have some kind of "bus mastering" slot. This is mostly indicated by a dot next to the slot).

You might want to find out what (pci)card is conflicting with the awe32, and perhaps move this also to another slot (same reason).

Just a thought....

Jörg

**nehalmistry** · 27 June 2001, 09:43

i would have tried that if there were other slots unfortunately there is only one isa slot

oh btw, yes, it is one of the best cards of all time, i listened to a CMI and yamaha sound card, both made me puke, disgusting i tell you.... Few companies make sound cards with such high quality,... Creative Labs being the most notorious

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VJ · 27 June 2001, 23:43

I just downloaded the manual from www.gigabyte.com.tw

The file I have downloaded is the pdf-file called 6vx_4x_11_1_dec2799.pdf; I suspect this is the appropriate file for your mainboard ? Front page says:
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6VX-4X
Pentium (r) II / III / Celeron TM Processor
Motherboard
USER'S MANUAL
Pentium (r) II/III/Celeron TM Processor MAINBOARD
REV. 1.1 First Edition
R-11-01-091220
-

In the bios, there is a setting called "delay transaction" (located in bios in Chipset features setup, in the pdf-manual on p. 63). The desciption of this feature is on p. 66 :
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Delay Transaction
Disabled Normal operation (Default Value).
Enabled For slow speed ISA device in system.
-

I think this is your "passive release".
I would like to point out that I am no mainboard expert, I merely found out about this feature when trying to get my own AWE32 back to work. Judging by the description, this setting appears the same as my "passive release", but I cannot be sure about this ! So use this setting at your own risk !

Jörg

PS: On my mainboard, it is said that enabling "passive release" has a minor impact on the performance of the system. I can't say I have noticed this. If the "delay transaction" has the same functionality, it is likely to have a similar minor impact on performance.

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