Sound cards clashing
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Topic: Sound cards clashing
Posted By: tweeter box
Subject: Sound cards clashing
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 10:12am
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Details;
Got 2 of the same model same brand sound cards put in, Sound blaster live CT 4780
with 1 card only in its fine, but with 2 cards in each PCI slot it causes a system conflict n the pc switches off, then i have that serious error screen when it starts again
Windows operating system is XP home
Possible I/O conflict but cant work out how to change it??
also a quick question, if i have 1 soundcard in pci slot 1 and the second in pci slot 3 would this cause the volume to be louder on any of them
any help guys as this is really buggin me!
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Posted By: NiPZ
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 2:02pm
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Is there an error number or anything displayed or just a window telling you that something went wrong somewhere? Have you checked to see if you have the latest drivers for your mother board and the cards themselves. Also it shouldn't affect volumes depending on which PCI slots you have the cards inserted in!
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Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 3:02pm
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yep all the latest and correct drivers, cant get as far to check the error code as itll have restarted already
tryin to find out which jumpers on the actual card need to b changed but cant find the schematic! ------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |
Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 3:13pm
Are you sure 2x of those cards is a valuable configuration? I would google for that card before anything else. I know all about IRQs, and data ports, and BIOS PCI slot configs, but if the drivers don't support your configuration, you're stuffed. Is there a reason you need 2x sound cards? Another possibility is installing 1st card, and modify IRQ & I/O addresses/resources from default. That way, 2nd card installation "may" install to default settings, and not conflict with first. ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
tweeter box wrote:Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 3:43pm
"Another possibility is installing 1st card, and modify IRQ & I/O addresses/resources from default." this sounds like it could work as when i had just the 1 card in it was fine ------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |
Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 4:20pm
Don't forget those cards are 12 years old.  EDIT:If you get a modern 5.1 £20 sound card it will "probably" have better sound quality, modern drivers that make better use of CPU multimedia instructions, and probably 4-6x outputs + optical/digital.  http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/8462/Terratec-Aureon-5-1-PCI-6-Chan--Digital-in---out - http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/8462/Terratec-Aureon-5-1-PCI-6-Chan--Digital-in---out Terratec Aureon 5.1 PCI 6 Chan. Digital in / out soundcard
£18.39 inc VAT £15.65 exc VAT ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 5:40pm
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do you recon id get the cards clashing with these?
will be able to run both simultaneously?
while your at it Lev why is one card louder than the other one, switched the cards around n the problems still there in PCI slot 3  ------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |
Posted By: tallmike
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 5:59pm
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thought you lot loved sound (card) clashes?!
If you're dealing with IRQs and ports, your cards are too old! I rember setting them up to play Doom, and so will you Lev!
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Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 6:03pm
Oh yes I remember all that jazz...
Learnt years ago, bin old cards, and get new stuff, where the plug and play works...  Get a 5.1 sound with RealTek chipset... Then you get a load of fancy software for doing configs... Your computer must be old, if you dont have 5.1 HD sound on the motherboard... My motherboard has it, and I bought it in 2007...  ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 6:05pm
 good one ------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |
Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 6:05pm
------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |