nosisab Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Albeit I said the problem is with the onboard sound card, maybe some clarification is in order. It's not because the card is integrated in the mother board, it is because all those that are uses the CPU for almost all work, most of times including all the process of encoding/decoding. Worse, the interruption mechanism is sensible and indeed may transiently stop the CPU, causing the effects described. What is need is a real sound card, one that depends on the CPU just to inform what is to play, and it does for itself, releasing the main processor to do something else. So a discrete soundcard that depends on the CPU is in nothing better. although the troubles are more perceptible in certain applications and situations, the load is aways present. To play a movie from a DVD, listen to music and etc, the onboard card is enough, but when gaming... (and the gamebryo engine, the one used in Oblivion and Fallout is known for having sound issues even in a good sound card, almost impending troubles with the onboard ones). PS: Interruptions are signals that forces the hardware to wait for something or attend to something, actually 'interrupting' what is being done. when the onboard soundcard is interrupted, what is indeed interrupted is the CPU. These interruptions may be the order of more than a few milliseconds, an eternity to the CPU timings. They are the 'in'famous IRQs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonnie the Weak Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 A friend gave me a sound card ( sound blaster live 5.1 1999 model ). Old, but it worked ( no static is always good :biggrin: ). Thanks everyone for your time and help! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonnie the Weak Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 Crap, it didn't work. I began playing game that were previous unplayable because of the static, only to find out that there is a little bit of static left. So I played another game and found out that the static remained :verymad: ( though 90% was eliminated ). I installed the latest drivers for my sound card and even installed Kx. Sorry for stupidly saying it worked. :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 i have a idea, try taking your sound card out and blow on for any dust and blow some of the connectors, i had the same problem with an old creative 5.1 card once, maybe thats the problem, dust. funny same problem same card :biggrin: well not exactly the same card. or worse case scenario a capacitor has blown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmostWhatIWant Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 You do realize the last post was in February right? v.v Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 YA i know, i figured i would help out anyway :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmostWhatIWant Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 YA i know, i figured i would help out anyway :biggrin:That's my point, this problem is probably already long solved and you're digging it up for no reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Hey the thought counts OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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