Help -- sound card making clicking noises

[VJ]

This is where I got the file:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/support/support.htm

I choose "user manuals", and from the list GA-6xxxxxxx I choose GA-6vx-4x.


Jörg

PS: I meant the AWE32 is a great card concerning compatibility, support, etc. I do think it has quite a low signal-noise ratio, which is why I'm considering a Turtle Beach as my next card...

[nehalmistry]

u downloaded the wrong manual...... i have revision 3.0 ... not 1.1

the s/n ratio is ok.... 80db... that really is pretty good.. especially for an isa card that is 6 years old.... unless u listen to classical music, which i dont, u cant notice anything if the volume settings are correct...

this is what i do... i put the out gain to x1... the pcm/wave volume to 100.... u MUST turn speaker to 0 cos that has a lot of noise, turn volume to whatever depending on if u use speak out or line out... and then u can barely notice any noise

[This message has been edited by nehalmistry (edited 28 June 2001).]

[nehalmistry]

Verstraete J: i just realized, u got the manual for the completely wrong motherboard.... i have 6vxc7-4x


anyway, i e-mailed gigabyte to add the passive release option to the bios.... but i very much doubt i will even get a reply...

is there any way to do this thru software?

[This message has been edited by nehalmistry (edited 29 June 2001).]

[Greebe]

Passive release is normally used to compensate for the difference between the PCI and ISA bus clocks. Turning this on should prevent problems.

[nehalmistry]

exactly my point greebe, if i had that option in my bios.... i would do it thats why i wanna know if it's possible thru software

[Greebe]

Passive release is normally used to compensate for the latency difference of the ISA bus. Turning this on should prevent problems and improve performance only if you are using an ISA card. Delayed transaction setting also plays into this positively if there is an ISA card installed.

[nehalmistry]

yes greebe.. yes.... i AM using an isa card... and i already know that this option will help me.. unfortunately... i dont have any of these options in my BIOS .... my old MoBo's bios did... thats why i never experienced this problem before...

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[VJ]

Oops, yes, I got the wrong manual . Sorry... Today I downloaded (what I think is ) the right manual, now I've got the file 6vxc7_4x_30_1.pdf, first page mentions:
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6VXC7-4X
Socket 370 Processor Motherboard
USER'S MANUAL
Socket 370 Processor Motherboard
REV. 3.0 First Edition
R-30-01-000719
-

I can find no entry concerning PCI-ISA timings : no "passive release", not even a "delay transaction". Perhaps it is present in later bios-versions ? (best to check bios-revisions before attempting to flash, if the feature is not present, don't bother flashing the bios).

I doubt this setting can be done in software, but there are perhaps better experts here than me.

Sorry, I don't know what more to do...


Jörg

[rubank]

nehalmistry,

have you tried to disable
"ClkGen Spread Spectrum" under Chipset Features?

[Greebe]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">thats why i never experienced this problem before...</font>

Or rather you think this is the cause of the problem. It could be a buggy BIOS, in need of them to update, yet again.

[nehalmistry]

greebe, are you playing with my mind or something... you are just repeating what i know/say

rubank, yes i have, it didnt help!!

[nehalmistry]

http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/faqsound.html i found some info here just when i was bout to give up.... im guessing it must be via specific... anyway.. this is what it sais:

Why do I get noise or crackle with the Soundblaster AWE32 ISA sound card?

This may be fixed by using BIOS ZTB01 (see BIOS page) and later and disabling Delay Transaction and PCI master Read Caching and setting PCI master time-out to 0, in Advanced Chipset Features.

One user reports that this can be fixed by overclocking the front side bus (FSB) using SoftMenuIII in the BIOS. Alternatively this problem can be fixed by disabling the 16-bit DMA support from the sound card's driver. Note, however, this will disable the full duplex capabilities of the card. To do this, do the following:

1. Go to Control Panel, System, Device Manager and select the soundcard.
2. Go to the "Properties" of the soundcard, then move to the "Resources" tab.
3. Uncheck the "Use automatic settings" box if it's checked. The information we want to play around with is in the "Settings based on" dialogue box.
4. There are a number of "basic configuration" choices ranging from 1 - 7. At the moment there will be one "Interrupt Request", and two "Direct Memory Access" values in the list box below. They will probably be 5, 1, 5 respectively. The idea is to get rid of the 2nd DMA (16-bit DMA) so you
only have the IRQ (1), and one DMA (8-bit DMA). So try out all of the "basic configuration" options and the information about the IRQs and DMAs will change. Choose one where there is only one DMA, and try it out. There could be more than one, so try them out until the problem is fixed.

Another user had limited success with the above solution, but found that by disabling DMA on the disks the crackling problem was solved - at the expense of much reduced disk performance. Your choice!

Another user reported that setting his card to "Basic Configuration 004" solved the problem. This is likely to be configuration dependent - but it's worth trying the different configurations offered.

anyway... apparently... disabling 16-bit dma works and so does overclocking my FSB to 75mhz (which oc's the pci bus and etc..etc..) ....

my question is... which one should i use..... i wanna keep the full duplex play/record at same time feature... even tho i dont use much.....
but since u cant change the multiplier on the celery II .... the minimum i can set it too (too solve problem off course) is 11x75 = 825 mhz for my 733 mhz cpu.... is that a big problem? it should still be stable right ???