- Feb 20, 2006
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The thread title is the basic symptom.
To elaborate, the sound suddenly changed a few days ago to become slow like a record being played at too slow a speed and also noticably distorted, like one of those sci-fi voice change toys. The machine was due for a reinstall of windows as this was an emergency rebuild of the system after the original motherboard (ASUS P4C800deluxe) died a month ago (safe mode uninstall of all incorrect drivers on first boot after build and then reboot). Rather than go through the annoyance of sorting through a 'dirty' system I decided to go for a full wipe then clean install of windows XP32pro. This did not solve the problem completely.
I have tried 3 different drivers for the onboard sound and none of them improves the situation.
Here's my hardware:
ASRock P4i65G with onboard C-media CMI9761A AC'97
Intel Northwood 'C' 3.0HT
1gb ram (memtest shows clean and functioning properly)
nVidia 7800GS agp
Seagate 200gb 7200.9 SATA (seatools reports functioning properly)
Logitech Fusion webcam/microphone on USB (disconnecting/uninstalling this has no effect)
No item is overclocked and the system has been otherwise stable since first build.
When I installed windows (my disk is sp1) I followed this with the Intel chipset drivers and sound drivers from the ASRock disc then Forceware 175.19, I had to uninstall the ForceWare as it is not compatible with sp1 (600x800 and 4bit colour only). After that I used update.microsoft.com until there were no updates left, then reinstalled FW175.19. Sound was normal at this point. I have added Kaspersky 2009, FlashGet 1.73, WinAce 2.69 WindowsLiveMessenger 8.5 and Steam.
When I tried to play one of my games via Steam I found the sound was again distorted so I have uninstalled everything back to the bare sp3 and drivers. Sound is still bad. This is where I then tried the 3 different sound drivers. the first from the motherboard disc, the second from update.microsoft.com and the third from ASRock's download site.
I am now stuck as I can't decide whether this is software (reinstall again from scratch) or hardware (RMA the new board).
Having no sound is no hinderance to work, but the wife uses Messenger to keep in touch with the family and video calls are a must as soon as possible.
Any help at this point would be most welcome.
Q
To elaborate, the sound suddenly changed a few days ago to become slow like a record being played at too slow a speed and also noticably distorted, like one of those sci-fi voice change toys. The machine was due for a reinstall of windows as this was an emergency rebuild of the system after the original motherboard (ASUS P4C800deluxe) died a month ago (safe mode uninstall of all incorrect drivers on first boot after build and then reboot). Rather than go through the annoyance of sorting through a 'dirty' system I decided to go for a full wipe then clean install of windows XP32pro. This did not solve the problem completely.
I have tried 3 different drivers for the onboard sound and none of them improves the situation.
Here's my hardware:
ASRock P4i65G with onboard C-media CMI9761A AC'97
Intel Northwood 'C' 3.0HT
1gb ram (memtest shows clean and functioning properly)
nVidia 7800GS agp
Seagate 200gb 7200.9 SATA (seatools reports functioning properly)
Logitech Fusion webcam/microphone on USB (disconnecting/uninstalling this has no effect)
No item is overclocked and the system has been otherwise stable since first build.
When I installed windows (my disk is sp1) I followed this with the Intel chipset drivers and sound drivers from the ASRock disc then Forceware 175.19, I had to uninstall the ForceWare as it is not compatible with sp1 (600x800 and 4bit colour only). After that I used update.microsoft.com until there were no updates left, then reinstalled FW175.19. Sound was normal at this point. I have added Kaspersky 2009, FlashGet 1.73, WinAce 2.69 WindowsLiveMessenger 8.5 and Steam.
When I tried to play one of my games via Steam I found the sound was again distorted so I have uninstalled everything back to the bare sp3 and drivers. Sound is still bad. This is where I then tried the 3 different sound drivers. the first from the motherboard disc, the second from update.microsoft.com and the third from ASRock's download site.
I am now stuck as I can't decide whether this is software (reinstall again from scratch) or hardware (RMA the new board).
Having no sound is no hinderance to work, but the wife uses Messenger to keep in touch with the family and video calls are a must as soon as possible.
Any help at this point would be most welcome.
Q
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