Sound sticking

[phoobingcamel]

Hi,

My nephew is experiencing some sound sticking problems. Whenever a .wav file is played, it sticks and repeats infinitely. I'm not too sure of the specs of his machine but I do know that he has a Jetway mobo with P300 CPU, a generic AC97 sound card and Win98SE. I recall having the same problem on my PC a few years back (with different specs) but I can't for the life of me recall how I fixed it. The obvious thing would be a conflict but that was the first thing I checked and there don't appear to be any. Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Glenn

 

[r2k]

I had a similar problem back when and yes, it was directly related to an IRQ conflict. It was because of setting the BIOS option 'Reserve IRQ x for <I don't remember what>' to 'Yes'. I disabled it (made it 'No') and the issue went away. This was with a Celeron 466, a BX mainboard and a Yamaha OPL-3SAx ISA sound card. Tell him also to enable 'PnP OS' and set all the IRQs for all devices automatically.