soundcard problems with Gigabyte K8VM800M

Well I checked and there doesn't seem to be any problems with conflicts on
the IRQ interrupts.

What does IDE have anything to do with it? Both the sound cards that I tried
are on the PCI bus. Am I missing something here?

Brett.

"SteveK" <nospam.DeleteThis@iPrimus.com.au> wrote in message
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 > "bigb" <bigb.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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  > > Hi,
  > >
  > > I have noticed when I perform intenstive computations while I am
listening
  > > to music (mp3), the sounds will skip and jump. This happens with both
  > > winamp
  > > and iTunes. I have noticed this happen with both the built-in soundcard
on
  > > the motherboard and my own personal PCI sound card.
  > >
  > > I dont think this is something that is usual, I can't believe that
people
  > > would put up with this from a computer. So I am assuming that I have
some
  > > configuration set incorrectly.
  > >
  > > Does anyone else have similar problems?
  > > Is there anything you do something about it?
  > >
  > > Thanks in advance.
  > > Brett.
  > >
 >
 > Usually these problems show if:
 > 1) Bad IRQ sharing like sound irq shared with video card
 > 2) DMA problem - ide driver not working correctly
 >
 >
 >
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"bigb" <bigb.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > Well I checked and there doesn't seem to be any problems with conflicts on
 > the IRQ interrupts.

It's not a matter of an irq conflict - it could be a share-load problem!


 > What does IDE have anything to do with it? Both the sound cards that I
 > tried are on the PCI bus. Am I missing something here?
 >
 > Brett.

usually the music is played from a CD or HD - both are depending on a proper
working ide/sata DMA bus.
If the DMA is not working smooth enough it can cause sound skipping.
U have all latest mobo drivers installed?
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-K8VM800M.htm" target="_blank">http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-K8VM800M.htm</a>

Have u disabled onboard sound in the bios?


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I had that same problem, on an Asus board and SB Live. It was an IRQ
conflict. NO errors in windows, but random skips.

I moved the card to another PCI slot, which (on that board) assigned a
different IRQ, problems went away. Can you re-assign an IRQ thru the BIOS to
something less used?


"bigb" <bigb RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > Hi,
 >
 > I have noticed when I perform intenstive computations while I am listening
 > to music (mp3), the sounds will skip and jump. This happens with both
 > winamp
 > and iTunes. I have noticed this happen with both the built-in soundcard on
 > the motherboard and my own personal PCI sound card.
 >
 > I dont think this is something that is usual, I can't believe that people
 > would put up with this from a computer. So I am assuming that I have some
 > configuration set incorrectly.
 >
 > Does anyone else have similar problems?
 > Is there anything you do something about it?
 >
 > Thanks in advance.
 > Brett.
 >
 > ---
 > AMD64 3200 processor
 > 512 PC-3200 DDR RAM
 >
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"SteveK" <nospam.TakeThisOut@iPrimus.com.au> wrote in message
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 > "bigb" <bigb.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
 > news:tI2dnWNOQo1XZWzcRVn-vg@adelphia.com
  > > Well I checked and there doesn't seem to be any problems with conflicts
on
  > > the IRQ interrupts.
 >
 > It's not a matter of an irq conflict - it could be a share-load problem!

Since I have a 3GHz 64-bit number cruncher installed and my old PCs haven't
had problems like this, I'm assuming there's something else going on.

 >
  > > What does IDE have anything to do with it? Both the sound cards that I
  > > tried are on the PCI bus. Am I missing something here?
  > >
  > > Brett.
 >
 > usually the music is played from a CD or HD - both are depending on a
proper
 > working ide/sata DMA bus.
 > If the DMA is not working smooth enough it can cause sound skipping.
 > U have all latest mobo drivers installed?
 >
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-K8VM800M.htm" target="_blank">http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-K8VM800M.htm</a>
 >
 > Have u disabled onboard sound in the bios?

Yes, i've installed the latest drivers, and I tried uninstalling the onboard
sound card too.

I also tried moving the PCI slot and that didn't help, although the results
were slightly different. Better for winamp upon minimisation. iTunes
minimisation caused just as many glitches though.

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