M2N32-SLI Deluxe and DTV 2000H sound problem
pca_Kenny W - 10 October 2008 - 9:37pm
My current PC has an Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard and Leadtek DTV 2000H TV card. I built this a couple of years ago and the sound was a dog to get working but is fine now.
My problem is I tried to reinstall windows a fresh but cannot get the sound to work as it should. The main problem is when watching TV the sound starts off OK then after about a minute starts breaking up then stops. The picture also judders.
I remember having a problem with the sound when I first put the PC together but eventually I got it sorted. I can remember downloading more drivers for the motherboard but when I tried this again it did not work 100%
Thanks to PC Answers I took an image before I wiped the drive and have currently reloaded the image. I have another drive which I am trying to set up from scratch but cannot beat this sound problem.
Is there a method of finding out from the working drive exactly what is loaded to make the sound work?. I am sure you have probably covered something like this in previous issues but after 3 weeks of battling I dont have the energy to trawl back through my back copies (I started at issue 64!)
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Re: sound problem
nick_peers - 14 October 2008 - 10:40amTry a program like DriverMax (click here, and see page 74 of issue 188), which can identify all of your drivers plus driver versions for you.
Sound problem
Isitme - 15 October 2008 - 8:40pmWould this be a codec problem?
TomD
It might well be a codec
pca_Kenny W - 15 October 2008 - 9:03pmIt might well be a codec problem however I am loading up a fresh hard drive and going to load the drivers using Nicks suggestion first.
As I have been heavily into video editing the original drive has many related programs along with their codecs. After 2 years the drive is so full of dross it needs a clean install. One thing is for sure - when I finally crack this sound problem a drive image will be taken!!!
Check back on this thread after a couple of days to allow me to carry out testing.
Regards
AMD 64 X2 4600+
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wi-Fi
2 gig corsair ram
4x Seagate 320 gig SATA drives
Asus 7600 GS top silent
Winfast DTV2000 H TV card
Re:Sound Problem
pca_Kenny W - 19 October 2008 - 9:41pmI tried Drivermax but it did not solve the problem 100%
It fixed the sound to windows media palyer (the well documented ASUS board problem) but the TV playback still stutters.
I have tried everything from scratch again (with my SP3 slipstreamed disc) and got the board up and running with sound ok. Then I added the tv card which had severe stuttering problems with the drivers supplied. I then updated to the latest drivers from the Winfast Leadtek site. This improved it but not 100%.
My next move will be to go back to the working drive and note every possible setting etc for the TV card and check it is the same on the stuttering drive, failing that I dont know what to do?
AMD 64 X2 4600+
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wi-Fi
2 gig corsair ram
4x Seagate 320 gig SATA drives
Asus 7600 GS top silent
Winfast DTV2000 H TV card
Codec problem
pca_Kenny W - 19 October 2008 - 9:52pmRunning Gspot on the good drive reveals I have 282 codecs loaded - how the H$&* do I know which is used by the TV card?
Can I export the lot (similar to Drivermax) and install on the bad drive?
AMD 64 X2 4600+
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wi-Fi
2 gig corsair ram
4x Seagate 320 gig SATA drives
Asus 7600 GS top silent
Winfast DTV2000 H TV card
RE: codec problem
nick_peers - 20 October 2008 - 8:53amYou could try installing one of the major codec packs from here, but I doubt your TV card requires some kind of obscure codec to run. All the codecs it does require should be installed alongside the drivers.
This is probably a daft question, but picture breaking up and sound problems is typical of a bad signal or connection. I presume you've double-checked everything is plugged in correctly? How is your TV card acquiring its signal - from the main aerial, or via a indoor plug-in aerial?
No question is daft when you are desperate!
pca_Kenny W - 20 October 2008 - 6:52pmYes the picture momentarily freezes however I dont think its the aerial. It works OK on the good drive. I have the side off the case and just keep swapping the SATA lead between good and problem drives. This rules out any hardware problems other than the drive itself. I class the drive as OK as I can surf and listen to Windows media player without a problem. Googling Asus MoBo problem reveals a lot of onboard sound issues and one answer is to fit an Audigy 7.1 sound card. Its just the ironic thing is my good drive works fine with onboard sound.
I have duplicated every setting in the DTV program. I did see a slight improvement but the sound still stutters to a halt after a few minutes.
Perhaps another idea might be to put the TV card into my old Chaintech 7NJS/Athlon2500+ case and use it as a recorder.
AMD 64 X2 4600+
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wi-Fi
2 gig corsair ram
4x Seagate 320 gig SATA drives
Asus 7600 GS top silent
Winfast DTV2000 H TV card
re: TV problem
nick_peers - 21 October 2008 - 3:45pmI presume you've double-checked all driver versions on both good and new drives to check they're now identical? It obviously means trekking through Device Manager, but you never know, you might find the driver version on your good drive is actually older than the one you've installed on the new drive.