[Arny Krueger]

"Mike Rivers" wrote in message

On Mar 26, 7:48 am, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

There could be some piece of software in there that is
looping around the audio interface's driver. Total
Recorder?

Well, I do have Total Recorder installed. That's one of
the selectable devices in RightMark's pulldown menu. I
thought this might have been a good clue, but it hasn't
helped.

I don't fully understand the meaning of the "Use only
default devices" check box in the Windows Sounds/Audio
window, but when I opened it up, it had Total Recorder
set as the default record and playback device, and that
"use only" box was checked. I tried every combination of
checking the box and unchecking it, and setting the
UCA202 (USB Audio CODEC) or something else as the Windows
default device, and still get the same results with
RightMark.

Checking and unchecking that box in the control panel shouldn't affect the
Rightmark program, because the Rightmark program bypasses the preferred
sound device with its device selection menu.

Whatever is screwing you up, is more profound than that.

Once again, I confirmed that using the built-in SigmaTel
Audio device, I get reasonably good results with
RightMark.

Somehow the onboard sound device is immune to whatever is causing the
feedback. It is possible that its device driver or some related component is
somehow part of the problem. Since disabling the onboard device does not
affect the problem, the problem is proabably not directly related to the
device driver, but perhaps some control program that is installed with the
device driver.

I'm sure that the UCA202 isn't broken, it must
be a Windows setup problem or operator error.

The UCA 202 is one of those devices that is almost too dumb to be broken in
as sophistcated way as we see happening here. It's device driver is the one
for USB devices that comes with Windows, right?

BTW, is this a SP2 XP system?

Isn't there anyone in the DC area who uses RightMark who
can show me that it really works?

At this time my best guess is that there is some piece of software or device
driver installed on your computer, that is mucking up the works. I am very
surprised that whatever this software is, it is capable of subverting the
device selection feature of the Rightmark program.

My next approach would be to uninstall everything that is related to sound
devices in the add/remove programs in the control panel. I would then obtain
the latest-greatest driver for your onboard sound device, and update it.

When installing the new device driver, I would uninstall the old one, reboot
the machine, and then be careful to install just the device driver, and if
possible avoid installing any other utilities that may have come with it.

The actual audio interface device drivers are usually in a folder called
"WDM" or some such. Getting a WDM folder installed may require first
installing the device driver with a SETUP program, and then uninstalling the
driver package with the control panel, and then reinstalling it by rebooting
the machine and pointing the windows device driver installer at the WDM
folder that the Setup program created.