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Problem running M-Audio Delta 66 card w/Dell 400 SC
Hi everyone,
I'm currently running Cool Edit Pro v. 1.2a on Windows XP Pro with a new Dell 400SC machine (512MB, PEntium 4 2.8Ghz) with an M-audio Delta 66 PCI sound card ,and the M-Audio Omni I/O interface. It seems to work okay for the most part, but anytime I do anything, for instance bringing up or scrolling down a pull down menu, the sound gets really garbled. Basically, the problem occurs anytime there is a fair amount of movement on the screen. The problem is particularly obvious when I try to play any kind of video file, like an MPEG. There the video seems fine - but the sound is completely messed up. The video card is in the first PCI slot, and the M-Audio card directly under it. I also have a 56K modem in the third slot. The 400SC comes installed with a PCI video card. I'm thinking that having both devices on the PCI bus is somehow overloading it, but honestly this is just a guess on my part, though. I know the Delta 66 card works, because I tested it on my other machine, an old 366MHz Compaq, and it works fine. Does anyone here have any experience with this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Gary |
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PCI video is very bad for audio!!!
Video tends to use a lot of traffic. Unfortunately, a lot of video drivers lock the PCI bus because they don't check buffer states before putting data onto the bus. This causes lots of PCI lockouts and audio suffers big time. Getting audio to work well on the PC platform was always a difficult task. Then AGP came along and all our problems were solved. The AGP bus is fully independant of the PCI bus, so the PCI bus is no longer saturated with video data. It's pretty rare for people to use PCI video cards these days. Why did you go PCI? The fix is to switch to an AGP card. Believe me, I've been through this with Delta cards before. They are particularly susceptable to PCI video cards screwing them up. Bill Ruys. "Gary Wang" wrote in message 9.130... Hi everyone, I'm currently running Cool Edit Pro v. 1.2a on Windows XP Pro with a new Dell 400SC machine (512MB, PEntium 4 2.8Ghz) with an M-audio Delta 66 PCI sound card ,and the M-Audio Omni I/O interface. It seems to work okay for the most part, but anytime I do anything, for instance bringing up or scrolling down a pull down menu, the sound gets really garbled. Basically, the problem occurs anytime there is a fair amount of movement on the screen. The problem is particularly obvious when I try to play any kind of video file, like an MPEG. There the video seems fine - but the sound is completely messed up. The video card is in the first PCI slot, and the M-Audio card directly under it. I also have a 56K modem in the third slot. The 400SC comes installed with a PCI video card. I'm thinking that having both devices on the PCI bus is somehow overloading it, but honestly this is just a guess on my part, though. I know the Delta 66 card works, because I tested it on my other machine, an old 366MHz Compaq, and it works fine. Does anyone here have any experience with this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Gary |
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Can you try putting the video card in another slot or make sure it's not
sharing an IRQ with the Delta? "Gary Wang" wrote in message 9.130... Hi everyone, I'm currently running Cool Edit Pro v. 1.2a on Windows XP Pro with a new Dell 400SC machine (512MB, PEntium 4 2.8Ghz) with an M-audio Delta 66 PCI sound card ,and the M-Audio Omni I/O interface. It seems to work okay for the most part, but anytime I do anything, for instance bringing up or scrolling down a pull down menu, the sound gets really garbled. Basically, the problem occurs anytime there is a fair amount of movement on the screen. The problem is particularly obvious when I try to play any kind of video file, like an MPEG. There the video seems fine - but the sound is completely messed up. The video card is in the first PCI slot, and the M-Audio card directly under it. I also have a 56K modem in the third slot. The 400SC comes installed with a PCI video card. I'm thinking that having both devices on the PCI bus is somehow overloading it, but honestly this is just a guess on my part, though. I know the Delta 66 card works, because I tested it on my other machine, an old 366MHz Compaq, and it works fine. Does anyone here have any experience with this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Gary |
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"Gary Wang" wrote in message
9.130 I'm currently running Cool Edit Pro v. 1.2a on Windows XP Pro with a new Dell 400SC machine (512MB, PEntium 4 2.8Ghz) with an M-audio Delta 66 PCI sound card ,and the M-Audio Omni I/O interface. It seems to work okay for the most part, but anytime I do anything, for instance bringing up or scrolling down a pull down menu, the sound gets really garbled. Basically, the problem occurs anytime there is a fair amount of movement on the screen. The problem is particularly obvious when I try to play any kind of video file, like an MPEG. There the video seems fine - but the sound is completely messed up. The video card is in the first PCI slot, and the M-Audio card directly under it. I also have a 56K modem in the third slot. The 400SC comes installed with a PCI video card. I'm thinking that having both devices on the PCI bus is somehow overloading it, but honestly this is just a guess on my part, though. I know the Delta 66 card works, because I tested it on my other machine, an old 366MHz Compaq, and it works fine. Does anyone here have any experience with this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Have you checked the video card driver options relating to video acceleration, and experimented with turning them off? |
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