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Sound Blaster/New hard drive prob
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Name: Aaron
Date: May 9, 2003 at 07:00:36 Pacific
Subject: Sound Blaster/New hard drive probOS: Windows XP HomeCPU/Ram: P4 1.7/ 640 rdram |
Comment: I recently installed a new WD 160 gig hard drive with 8mb cache. Card is attached to a Promise Ultra ATA 100 controller card in pci slot. I did a clean XP install and updated all drivers, system bios, etc.. Now I get sound crackles and pops and repeats it seems whenever HDD spins up or other program is opened up. System:
Dell Dimension 8200
P4 1.7
640 mb rdram
WD 160 HDD
Sound Blaster Live Value Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks
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Response Number 1
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Name: RayMan
Date: May 9, 2003 at 09:06:12 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Probably the promise controller and the sound card are sharing the same IRQ. Try different combinations of PCI sockets and cards. Try assigning the sound card an unused IRQ
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Response Number 3
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Name: zemmie
Date: May 21, 2003 at 20:44:20 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I fixed the problem. I downloaded and installed the Intel Application Accelerator and removed my Promise ATA controller card. My full hard drive size is recognized and the sound is perfect. Just thought I would pass this on. I had tried the above suggestions to no avail.
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