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Postby aircoolednut » Wed Aug 18, 2004 5:18 pm

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Postby Cactus » Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:22 pm

Do you have drivers installed?


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Postby TheMajor » Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:47 pm

you could buy a cheap PCI soundcard
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Postby PCguy » Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:15 pm

This might sound odd, but I have seen a load of Sound Cards go all crackly because of a conflict with a video card. I would start as Cactus said and update Direct X to 9.x. Then make sure your video card drivers are up to date. Then if that doesnt work, a cheap sound card might be the way to go.
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Postby aircoolednut » Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:21 pm

I have direct X 9.0, will check out video, but I do have latest realplayer. Reckon it looks like me getting a sound card.

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Postby TheMajor » Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:25 pm

good idea..if the old card is an onboard one you probably need to disble it before you put the new one in..but I m not sure(no experience with onboard cards)
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Mobo: V-Tech (Pc-Partner)
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Videocard: Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64 | 16MB VRAM
Soundcard: Creative (ES1370 APU) Soundblaster (PCI64)

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Postby Geekgirl » Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:32 pm

If its on-board sound he will need to disable in the bios if its an actual adapter card he can just remove an install another
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Postby noby » Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:08 am

>>> It only started recently, after I loaded a game for the kids and I think it tried to load some old Active X stuff (version 5), but updated that to version 7 now as well. <<<<

I would try uninstalling the above, and see if it is ok then
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