Sound problems

[GIJay]

I was having trouble with the volume going up and down on its own while playing all games. So i took out the sound blaster i had and tryed the onboard and still the same problem .Its not all that bad when the speakers are plugged in but when the vol spikes up and i'm on TS and COD with earphones i almost go deaf.. Oh and after it goes up it goes down on its own to. Any idea's????

[AnalogKid]

I was having trouble with the volume going up and down on its own while playing all games. So i took out the sound blaster i had and tryed the onboard and still the same problem .Its not all that bad when the speakers are plugged in but when the vol spikes up and i'm on TS and COD with earphones i almost go deaf.. Oh and after it goes up it goes down on its own to. Any idea's????

Hmmm. 2 different sound cards eliminates the jack, and the drivers for that matter. Doing it whether it is the speakers or the headphones. There is only one thing left...

http://www.fontalicious.com/media/wax.gif

[Cranky]

:lol: :lol: I thought he was crazy too at first untill i was on the game and it did the samething to me. :( :(

[SauerKraut]

:lol: :lol: I thought he was crazy too at first untill i was on the game and it did the samething to me. :( :(


lol

no, you were right in your first hypothesis.

[Cranky]

:lol: :lol: I thought he was crazy too at first untill i was on the game and it did the samething to me. :( :(


lol

no, you were right in your first hypothesis.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Stockboy99]

Is the game the only thing running when this happens?

I have seen cases where multiple active programs fight for control over the master volumes before.

Then there was a rather extreme case I saw where several capacitors blew on a motherboard killing all voltage filtering. The sound coming out of the machine was spikes, hisses and static and the video was a really bad snowy antennae reception 8O

[Cranky]

Yes it happens when the game is the only thing running and when the game is running with TS . But it happens with all games . And we are not having any other sound problems.

[ignus]

check your sound blaster software settings. sb puts like 3 different control progs on your system

[Stockboy99]

Bizarre.

Is this isolated to games only? Have you noticed this running other things?

Do a few simple test by playing different sounds on the system. You'll can play wav's and midi files to test basic playback. Playing an audio cd through the analog channel can test its pass-through process. If you have winamp you can test wav-out and direct sound by choosing different decoding methods in the "preferences->plugins->output.

Also try running start->run->dxdiag and hop over to the sound (you may have more than one sound tab if you have more than one sound device) tab and run the direct sound tests.

Likewise. Soundblaster should come with their own software program that can test the card. Or at least some kind of sound "demo" program.


Purely conjecture, but I'm suspecting some kind of problem with processing multiple sounds in the game. Maybe some kind of codec problem or more likely something with directsound.

[YellowDog]

Do you have any software mp3 players or somesuch installed that uses hot keys for volume? you may be getting crossover function. the player and the game shareing a key so say you hit reload button and the volume goes down as well?

YD

[Cranky]

Do you have any software mp3 players or somesuch installed that uses hot keys for volume? you may be getting crossover function. the player and the game shareing a key so say you hit reload button and the volume goes down as well?

YD


No we don't have any of that installed . But i was thinking that this started around x-mas when Jay installed his new hockey game and BF so we have uninstalled them to see if thats the problem .. Thanks for your help guys i'll let ya no if we figure it out.

[GIJay]

We just reformatted and its still doing it so i'm guessing its the motherboard. :evil: :evil: :evil:

[JTFazz]

At the risk of hijacking this thread... does anyone else find it hilarious that Jay's new avatar is Wile E. Coyote and Mrs. Jay's is the Road Runner... MEE-MEEEEP....

[Chairman_Kaga]

We just reformatted and its still doing it so i'm guessing its the motherboard. :evil: :evil: :evil:
When you use headphones, are they plugged directly into the sound card or through a jack on your speakers?

Wondering if it's not a power supply issue with powered speakers. (assuming that's what you have)

Quickest check would be to plug your headphones directly into the sound card jack, thereby bypassing the speaker system altogether.

I find it hard to believe (although not impossible) that it would be MOBO. You had PCI based sound card AND your onboard sound card do the same thing. If you're having issues that noticable over the PCI bus, I would think it would manifest itself in more than just your sound.

[Cranky]

Yes the headphones are plugged into the sound card but someone was telling us it could be interference from the subwoofer but its sitting in the same place as always . :? :? :?

[GIJay]

At the risk of hijacking this thread... does anyone else find it hilarious that Jay's new avatar is Wile E. Coyote and Mrs. Jay's is the Road Runner... MEE-MEEEEP....


Ya JT she thinks she's funny!!! Don't encourage her !!

:P :P

[JTFazz]

At the risk of hijacking this thread... does anyone else find it hilarious that Jay's new avatar is Wile E. Coyote and Mrs. Jay's is the Road Runner... MEE-MEEEEP....


Ya JT she thinks she's funny!!! Don't encourage her !!

:P :P

http://www.vsfgamers.com/albums/album07/jordanlol.jpg

[Cranky]

At the risk of hijacking this thread... does anyone else find it hilarious that Jay's new avatar is Wile E. Coyote and Mrs. Jay's is the Road Runner... MEE-MEEEEP....


Ya JT she thinks she's funny!!! Don't encourage her !!

:P :P


He's wrong i am funny .. Or maybe its just funny annoying him !!!!


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Stockboy99]

We just reformatted and its still doing it so i'm guessing its the motherboard. :evil: :evil: :evil:
When you use headphones, are they plugged directly into the sound card or through a jack on your speakers?

Wondering if it's not a power supply issue with powered speakers. (assuming that's what you have)

Quickest check would be to plug your headphones directly into the sound card jack, thereby bypassing the speaker system altogether.

I find it hard to believe (although not impossible) that it would be MOBO. You had PCI based sound card AND your onboard sound card do the same thing. If you're having issues that noticable over the PCI bus, I would think it would manifest itself in more than just your sound.

I take it this even occurs playing audio cd's then?

If it really is the motherboard, the only thing that could possibly manifest itself like this in both a pci sound card and onboard sound would be bad capacitors. And bad capacitors are easily noticeable by visual inspection. If all the capacitors look normal (clean, no brown "acid", not bulging) I would strongly look elsewhere for the problem.