A7N8X Deluxe sound problems

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Ric

Hi,

I've recently been doing a lot of CD ripping. I have 2 Lite-On CD-RW drives,
one on each IDE channel as Master, and one Pioneer DVD-ROM drive as the
secondary slave. I have 2 hard drives which are on the SATA RAID controller
(via parallel to serial IDE converters). I'm using EAC (Exact Audio Copy)
for ripping and the system is running Windows XP SP1. I've got the Nvidia
2.03 drivers installed.

I find with both Liteon drives ripping at the same time I will often get
short system freezes. I also find if I'm playing MP3s through Winamp while
ripping with EAC besides pausing, I get all manner of weird artefacts some
times. These include repeating and skipping of samples, static and or
popping noises and sometimes even frequency changes. When I rewind a bit the
same part of the MP3 plays back fine, so it's not an issue with corrupt
source files.

I'm wondering if there is an issue with the audio controller when there is a
lot of activity on the IDE controller. Has anyone else experienced these
symptoms?

Thanks,
Ric
 
Ric said:
Hi,

I've recently been doing a lot of CD ripping. I have 2 Lite-On CD-RW
drives, one on each IDE channel as Master, and one Pioneer DVD-ROM
drive as the secondary slave. I have 2 hard drives which are on the
SATA RAID controller (via parallel to serial IDE converters). I'm
using EAC (Exact Audio Copy) for ripping and the system is running
Windows XP SP1. I've got the Nvidia
2.03 drivers installed.

I find with both Liteon drives ripping at the same time I will often
get short system freezes. I also find if I'm playing MP3s through
Winamp while ripping with EAC besides pausing, I get all manner of
weird artefacts some times. These include repeating and skipping of
samples, static and or popping noises and sometimes even frequency
changes. When I rewind a bit the same part of the MP3 plays back
fine, so it's not an issue with corrupt source files.

I'm wondering if there is an issue with the audio controller when
there is a lot of activity on the IDE controller. Has anyone else
experienced these symptoms?
Click to expand...

I seem to recall the software IDE driver in the nVidia 2.41 platform drivers
performing far better. Maybe they are in the new 2.45 - nVidia have had
long enough to iron out the problems...

I was under the impression that the bus joining the northbridge and
southbridge would be fast enough to cope with that situation. I assume you
do have DMA enabled on all IDE channels (otherwise the data would need to
pass across the FSB twice - there and back, which could cause a distinct
problem)?


Ben
 
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