A7N8X owners read here

try this benchmark: play mp3s in winamp or win media player, and then type. type as you normally would, using ICQ or anything like that. do your mp3s SKIP LIKE CRAZY? i've talked to a few people that own the mobo, and they say that the mp3s do. tried different nvidia drivers, and still skipping. used a creative soundblaster live! 5.1, and also tried the onboard sound. skip skip sk-sk-skip. nforce sucks. VIA all the way.

(oh, and if anybody has a fix to this issue, that would be nice to know too.. please share)

thanks,

--O2

Hey i just got my A7N8X Dlx board a couple of days back and lucky me i dont have this problem. I am playing mp3 in winamp and tried typing in Yahoo Messenger, MS Word, Notepad and i am typing this too. No problem so far.

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this is very strange. can you guys post your system specs and what OS you're using and what version of the nforce drivers?

including myself, i know (personally) three people that have this issue. we all run windows xp and i believe we run the latest version of the nforce2 drivers. i myself have tried a handful of different nvidia drivers that i could get my hands on. i believe i was using the latest bios, although i can't remember.

thanks,

--O2

Let me ask you this. Is it a USB or Serial Keyboard you guys are using that are having this problem?

I'm running the version 2.0 baord & a Serial Keyboard & don't have that problem.

Just wondering, is all.

Well, I didn't think that was gonna happen!!!

Right on dood, via was the best thing that happened to amd.[/sarcasm]


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This is not strange at all. This problem is driver related, I can safely say that 70% people owning nForce2 mobo had some on board sound problem because of mess up driver. These are some possible issues I can think of currently: Previous Creative driver is haunting your system, (if on Asus board) updating audio driver from Asus to nVidia reference driver will mess up the audio, Windows system error (try to look into event viewer and look for any errors), and the ultimate southbridge overheating (remedied by put a heatsink onto it, but it seems unlikely on your system though).
BTW, I'm using A7N8X Deluxe on board sound from February until now and I never have the issue you mentioned. You can go to nForcersHQ and look for some help there, AFAIK there is at least one guy is having this problem and it got solved. (Forget how he solved it, but definitely not getting a Audigy2)

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my install was a clean install of windows, and then i installed the mobo drivers, and then the creative drivers. i got skipping both with the native windows driver, and with the creative update..

ANYWAY, regardless of if nforce is good or not, i just switched to an A7V600 and it doesn't give me ANY problems with sound or anything. just a hassle free install of windows with no headache and no tweaking. ON TOP OF THAT, the A7V600 is about $30CAD cheaper than the A7N8X... i mean, why was the A7N8X given a board of the year prize? (rhetorical question, no need to answer.) ^_^

--O2

Well sorry about the board you had. I think they're the finest out there. I have a A7V8X I was running before the A7N8X & I'll tell the Nforce was a better board.

Glad your happy now though.

Dazzle them with Brilliance, or Baffle them with BS!

(Looking left and right) Oh Crashman where are thou? Someone just ditch nVidia nForce2 and go for VIA KT600! ^_^'
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Oh well, if you don't want to overclock at all, VIA is not a bad choice if you think nForce2 gives you nothing but trouble. But Epox, Abit and MSI have cheaper and maybe better nForce2, why don't you give them a change and go VIAdified?

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there is a known issue with win98se and nforce2 boards. in games dvds mp3 divx etc the sound will skip or run fast etc. microsoft released a hotfix for this which was available from their site. unfortunately they have pulled win98 support. if you are using 98se give me ur email and ill mail it to you

VIA killed my father, if I meet you I'll make you regret it.

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Well My deluxe rev 2 just died... in 2008. I let it run that way for years and now i'm sad. I wanna fix it. It was my fav motherboard with such a small issue compared to what ya see these days...

I bet my board is/was as fast as dual core setups. I threw anything at my system and it spit it out. I have a gigabyte with the same processor and it's not as peppy but close. That system is still going but won't come out of standby.... it also is tough to start sometimes.... won't post sometimes... and then it hangs at shutdown also but prob software related...