Official GIGABYTE Forum
Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: ptrmln on July 28, 2009, 10:18:21 am
-
Hi all.
Last month I finally found the $$$ and will to get a new pc since the old one was, well, too old. I'm no tech expert, but I do have some experience / skill and therefore decided to build my own (have done it before). After browsing some hardware review sites I decided to base the pc on a Gigabyte mobo. However, I'm really starting to regret it.
The installation and configuration went just smooth and the computer works exactly as it should - except for one minor, but extremely annoying issue. You see, the playback of music is flawed. It works perfectly fine when I just play music and don't do nothing else, but whenever I try do use the pc at the same time the playback is ruined by constant pops and hiccups. The pc only hade the motherboard's inbuilt sound card at first, so I bought an external and hoped it would fix it. It didn't. The problems often occur during regular usage (starting Firefox, browsing pictures, etc) but most of all when typing with the keyboard! Listening to music while writing a document in Word is unbearable. I've fiddled around with the settings and tried different drivers (both new and old) but nothing seems to fix it and it's starting to drive me insane.
Here are the specs:
Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB
Corsair TWIN2X PC6400 DDR2 4GB KIT CL5
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Se Bulk
Windows Vista Ultimate SP2
So, any suggestions on what to do?
-
Hi,
Not very tech and don't knowmuch about Vista,
Have you tried disabling system sounds in the control panel!
-
Have you tried disabling system sounds in the control panel!
Nope, that's not it. I'm afraid the problems run deeper than that.
-
When you hear those pops, does the cpu useage shoot up?
-
Hi Guys
I am using a GA-MA790XT-UD4P
AM3 Phenom II 550 3.1(stock) x2
4gb 1333mhz XMS Ram
2 x 750gb Caviar Greens in Raid0
Nvidia Gtx275
with a whopping 700w ocz stealth psu and a nice enermax case
I am running win 7 rc1, and am experiencing slight glitches in the sound when playing back music, but it only seems to be music playback, gaming sounds fine, unless I just dont notice it, COD4 glitches but I am putting that down to wireless lan .
at worst I get a Beatgrid effect but mostly it makes the songs all scratchy vinyl. Which I actually dont mind too much myself being used to that kind of thing.
But it is worrying
I have tried various drivers, also using analogue output as well as HDMI audio through the graphics card.
Everything else about this board is awesome, I am just trying to work out whats going on?
Any help would be great
Cheers
Bo
-
sorry for the double post, but with my weary eyes I cannot see an edit button
just to report that the audio on video playback displays the same characteristics
monitoring cpu useage during playback shows both cores as almost idle,
maxing at 4% overall useage
the glitching still occurs
does anyone know if this is just related to windows 7?
I may dig out a spare hdd, and install a different operating system to test whether I have the same issues.
-
am I ok to bump this_
has anyone else not experienced this?
I am a little concerned as it affects my videos too
by the way I have tried several drivers, I also dont use the Dolby addon even though its a nice touch