Sound Troubleshooting

 

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(Q1) Question

How can I disable  on board sound?

(Q2) Question

I recently hooked up a SoundBlaster audigy soundcard, installed the software, and uninstalled my old soundcard through add/remove programs... about every hour or so my computer will turn off and give me one of a few errors including

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
or tell win32.sys is messed up

then after I reboot it always tells me there's new hardware that needs to be installed but says it can't find files to install

I'm running windows xp

(Q3) Question

when ever I play my mp3 files the singer voices sound like mice. I haven't added any new programs or changed any media config. .My system is a P4 2.1GH,512RAM,win 98SE. I haven't played any mp3's for weeks. I just download a song from a friend who recorded a song and when I played it he sounded like a mouse. What's up??

(Q4) Question

am praying someone can give me some sort of an idea what to do here because I am just about at the end of my tether........ 

I play a game on my computer and all the sound effects work perfectly well. 

I then log on to the internet to play the same game in multi-player....when I get into the game all the sound effects suddenly play at a ridiculously accelerated speed.....it's as if I am listening to a 33rpm record at 78rpm. It only happens when I attempt to play the game over the internet. 

That's it in very simple terms. 

Anyone got any ideas at all?

(Q5) Question

Recently, my sound started to sound scratchy. At first I thought it was my headset but the scratchiness remained even with my external speakers. I have been unable to find a reason for this. The only thing I can think of is the addition of a new USB 2.0 dual port PCI card. Could this be causing any conflicts that would result in this scratchiness?? 

I have tried playing with the hardware acceleration setting in the Sound control-panel to no avail. 

What else should I try???

(Q6) Question

I just bought a ASUS P4PE Black Pearl MB and P4 2.4 chip. 
When I installed the MB, I didn't install any other PCI devices to make sure I did everything right. Soooo, I was using the on board sound for a couple of days to make sure all was well. (sound was fine) 

Now, I installed my Sound Blast Live and all was well for one day. (Sound was fine) Now I have NO sound at all! I've tried to re-install the SB drivers and uninstall and re-install the SB Live card, but no luck. (Checked the speakers and wires on another PC and they're OK)

 

 

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