re: Sound Problems Scratchy Wierd Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 2:55 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Paul (6 messages posted) On Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 6:32 pm, Beecher Wood wrote: >Sound cards can be a bear because they use so many kinds of resources. Check out >DMA usage, you may have a conflict. Also interrupt usage. Try the dumb and easy fix >of moving the card to another slot in your PC, I know it shouldn't make any difference, >but sometimes it works. Also, do you have the latest drivers? Good Luck. > > >On Saturday, January 26, 2002 at 10:44 pm, Paul wrote: >I have a diamond monster mx400 sound card and I just installed windows xp. After >playing a few mp3s, i noticed that sometimes the sound would come out sort of strange. >When I play a song, it sounds kind of distorted, like a poor quality RealAudio file. >I did some experimenting with this and the problem occurred no matter what media >player I used, and the same thing happened whether i played a CD, Wav or MP3. Also, >I noticed that if I stopped playback and then pressed play again a few times, playback >would sound normal again until the song is over. It almost seems like when I press >play, it will randomly select if it wants to sound like crap or not. Any ideas? > Written in response to: re: Sound Problems Scratchy Wierd (Beecher Wood: Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 6:32 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Sound Problems Scratchy Wierd (Paul: Sat, Jan 26, 2002, 10:44 pm) re: Sound Problems Scratchy Wierd (Beecher Wood: Sun, Jan 27, 2002, 6:32 pm) re: Sound Problems Scratchy Wierd (Paul: Mon, Jan 28, 2002, 2:36 pm) re: Sound Problems Scratchy Wierd (Paul: Tue, Jan 29, 2002, 2:55 pm) re: Sound Problems Scratchy Wierd (Doug: Sun, Jul 13, 2003, 1:01 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum