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re: Sound Stutter?
Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 6:24 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Raymond
(83 messages posted)
Checking on this, my motherboard has no VIA onboard Bio's, so im fine there.
On Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 5:21 pm, dhm wrote:
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>I have a similar setup. I get stutters in the Windows start sound. I have always
>had it with this motherboard which has VIA onboard sound chips. The onboard sound
>also had hitches--hesitations--when playing MPEG clips. It was too much for the
>CPU to handle all by itself. I had hitches in the onboard VIA video.
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>The hitches in the video went away when I added a graphics card so the CPU doesn't
>have to do the work of the GPU.
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>I've had fewer problems with the sound. I've gone thru 2 sound cards and now I
have
>a Soundblaster 16 like you because it is compatible with my DOS games and nothing
>else is. My brother-in-law told me of someone's freeware workaround module but
neither
>of us could get it to work and he has a Soundblaster--I don't know which module.
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>I got more of the problems out when I found the onboard sound was still on in the
>BIOS. I thought I had turned it off. I turned it off and went to Start > Settings
>> Control Panel > Multimedia > Devices and Start > Settings > Control Panel
>> System >Device Manager and deleted any references to VIA's sound system.
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>So now I only get the stutters on Windows start.
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>Of course, the SB16 is obsolescent. It is not designed to handle the situation
of
>2 competing sounds coming in at the same time. Sometimes I get the "... device
is
>already in use ..." popup which brought back memories of Win3.1.
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>I got the SB16 for $15 at a local store. They have a modern Soundblaster card for
>$28. I'm about to rebuild my system so I will try that. As long as I can play
my
>old DOS games.
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