Sound problems in winXP

[rubank]

When I try to make a recording from CD or from any analogue input through my soundcard the results are always in mono!
It´s nothing wrong with the soundcard or with the settings in my applications, whether it´d be WaveLab, Sound Forge or CoolEdit.
During playback everything is fine, but recordings still are only mono.
I have the same apps and settings in win98se, and there the results are as expected. Not so in winXP.

I´ve tried reinstalling XP, I´ve ripped the card out and made a thorrow uninstall, I´ve ripped the CDrom out and reinstalled and so forth but nothing have solved the problem.

Does anyone have a clue?

Thank´s for any worthwhile reply

rubank

[Gurm]

What sound card?

- Gurm

[rubank]

Hi Gurm,

plain old SB pci128.
Latest drivers.
I know it´s a crappy card, but it does what it´s supposed to do and I´m only interested in a reasonably clean signal which it does provide. (I´m NOT interested in bloated drivers and game realated overhead)
Since playback is ok, and recording in win98se is ok I take it the problem lies within winXP.

rubank

[ZokesPro]

It's not a crappy card, cause I have one!

At one point I had NO sound (couldn't even access the options)and did a repair of XP and it started working again.

Have you tried the native XP drivers for this card? (somehow whenever I wanted to update the drivers for my card it wouldn't recognize it as a valid PCI128 therefore I am stuck using the native drivers)

You've re-installed XP from scratch right? (I'm a kinda stumped on this one)

[rubank]

Hi Zokes,
yes I´ve tried all the things you suggest, though not a complete format/reinstall. THAT wouldn´t be worth it.

rubank

[ZokesPro]

Hmm, well aside from a full format re-install, there's nothing more I can think of, unless... have you tried the card on another PCI slot?

(kinda running out of ideas here, yet I want to help)

[Gurm]

Have you, in fact, used the card successfully under Win2k?

It could be something to do with the WMD drivers.

I had a PCI128 at one point in one machine, but I've never tried to record with it, so...

- Gurm

[rubank]

I actually can´t remember if I tried another PCI slot, so I just switched.
It works well, the card sounds great except
RECORDINGS ARE STILL MONO!

I´m really getting tired of this.

Gurm, I haven´t tried with win2k, never had it at home.
But, thickheaded as I might be, I can´t understand why the two channels are merged together while recording when playback is just as it should be.
If it´s unclear, recordings are made to both channels it´s just that they are blended as L+R.

rubank

[Technoid]

then it sounds like a setiings error

[rubank]

Not a chance Technoid.

Checked it 753 times.

[Gurm]

No, I'm serious here it could be a WDM driver problem. Recording and playback use different codecs entirely.

- Gurm

[rubank]

That could be, Gurm, but I guess Zokes would have told if he had the same recording problem since he has the card too.
So Zokes, can you confirm that recording in stereo works for you?

rubank

[az]

Actually, if I remember correctly, there wasn't the SB 128 PCI - there were a whole number of different cards sold under that name...

AZ

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by rubank
That could be, Gurm, but I guess Zokes would have told if he had the same recording problem since he has the card too.
So Zokes, can you confirm that recording in stereo works for you?

rubank

Most definetely. I'll check it out when I get home and let you know.

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by az
Actually, if I remember correctly, there wasn't the SB 128 PCI - there were a whole number of different cards sold under that name...

AZ

Yup, different models, like the SB PCI128 CT4700, CT4810 etc..

My card is so old that when I try to use creative's new drivers it claims it's not a valid SB PCI128 card forcing me to use the native drivers.