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I have been having horrible sound problems with my system. Since my Monster MX 300 no longer was supported and does not work in XP, I bought a SB Live card. As with many people, I was getting scratchy noise, system hangs, NetMeeting would crash. Now, not all people will have had the same cause as me, but my problem was that my IRQ's were badly conflicting. 6 devices on one IRQ including the Live, my Geforce 2, both USB/VIA headers, ethernet card, and more. No matter what PCI I moved the Live card to, ACPI put all these devices to the same IRQ! After banging my head against the wall for days, I came across this at VIAhardware.com:
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If you own a SBLive! and are experiencing the following symptoms:
Sound crackling
DMA issues
Sporadic system hangs
Data corruption
then you have a very good chance of alleviating these issues by changing your sound card to a Santa Cruz. The reasons for these issues are twofold: the crackling is the result of poorly designed drivers and the remaining symptoms are caused by a faulty ACPI firmware header on the Live! (note: the Live! 5.1 does not suffer from this problem and neither does the new Audigy).
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It seems to me that Creative put out a Lemon that was only noticable when system devices became so complex that it was noticable when your IRQ's filled up. I for one am going bitch to Creative and see what they will do. NOTE that this ACPI header problem is with standard Live cards and not the 5.1 Live or Audigy.
[ December 13, 2001: Message edited by: Darkwolven ]
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