X-Fi ExtemeMusic

[fasterthanlight]

I had this card working fine up until recently. My speakers have crackling in them. I moved my speakers to the onboard audio (AC97) and they do not crackle. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and they are still crackling. I have them setup as 5.1 in Windows. Also, L4D also has them set up as 5.1, however, I only get zombie cries from the center only channel.

Help?!


Abit AN8 Fatality with 4GB of RAM. Back to 2GB it works fine. Vista 64 for the OS.

 

[Deathray]

Have you tried to move the sound card to another port? perhaps some sort of interference...

 

[Atech]

It's a know fact that many boards with NVIDIA chipsets suffer form badly implemented PCI standards:
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=71962

If you are fortunate your motherboard maker has released a BIOS update to try and remedy this...if not, sorry for you:
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=90200#M90200

 

[haste]

I had this card working fine up until recently. My speakers have crackling in them. I moved my speakers to the onboard audio (AC97) and they do not crackle. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and they are still crackling. I have them setup as 5.1 in Windows. Also, L4D also has them set up as 5.1, however, I only get zombie cries from the center only channel.

Help?!


Abit AN8 Fatality with 4GB of RAM. Back to 2GB it works fine. Vista 64 for the OS.

u may as well give up on this card in vista 64 in combination with that nforce chipset on that motherboard. i also have an nforce board, rig in sig.

i tried so many different combinations of things to get my xtrememusic working in vista. i even bought an x-fi fatality pci-e card and experienced even worse SCP.

im using xp now because of this, and returned the x-fi fatality card. im upgrading in the spring so i guess my Vista OS will have to wait until then to be used.