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Inferno   12-11-2002 at 11:35:37 PM

I have a C-Media sound card with an 8738 chip on it. On my Win2k machine I installed the newest drivers I could find (6.39) and there is one annoying bug that is killing me. I have front and rear speakers, connected to front and rear outputs (clever, ain't it? :lol: ). Every time I start Winamp, or some other application that produces sound, drivers go from 4 speaker mode to 2 speaker mode. I set the 4 speaker mode again, Winamp comes to the end of the playlist, stops, I play something else and drivers go back to 2 speaker mode again! Is there ANY way to solve this?

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mito   12-12-2002 at 05:10:49 AM
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beware that w2000 has serious issues regarding multimedia.
I did have a bad experience with w2k. However, win xp was quite an experience. you might as well consider upgrading to windows xp.

my 2 cents.

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Inferno   12-13-2002 at 02:56:38 AM
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I know that there are some problems with multimedia and Win2k, but they are more than adequate for my needs, upgrading to XP would be an overkill. This soundcard thing is the only problem I have...

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Col_Kiwi   12-14-2002 at 01:26:52 AM
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beware that w2000 has serious issues regarding multimedia.


that's a very very generalized comment, i'd watch saying something that encompassing if I was you. I've used win2k for a long time now and had no audio problems at all, having used computers with 5 different sound chipsets under Win2k. Win2k in general does not have "issues regarding multimedia".

Telling a user with a driver bug that the solution is to upgrade to WinXP when you've never seen that particular bug before is rather extreme, don't you think?

-Col.Kiwi

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Col_Kiwi   12-14-2002 at 01:28:18 AM
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I'd reccomend emailing the sound card manufactuer's tech support, it may be a configuration issue they can solve, else they will at least know of the bug in their drivers.

-Col.Kiwi

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xiaoxiao123   12-14-2002 at 01:49:55 AM
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Tyr to use another PCI slot

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Inferno   12-14-2002 at 03:24:37 AM
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I did mail them, they didn't reply yet, but I'm still hoping. :frown:

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Inferno   12-14-2002 at 03:29:03 AM
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I'll try it, because I'm running out of things I didn't already try, but why do you think that this will solve the problem. The card is properly recognized, it works just fine, I really just think it's a glitch in the drivers. Very annoying glitch unfortunately. :mad:

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