1. 350W PS
Puny.
2. Athlon based with sound issues.
My Audigy behaved badly too. I moved it to another slot, it would work for months. One day the motherboard capacitors turned out to be from that bad batch so I changed motherboards and the problem went away, never to return.
In closing, many debate power supplies. I won't but call your power supply rating a poor idea. It's unlikely the root cause, but I wouldn't build on such.
Bob
Here goes. (if you have ANY ideas PLEASE POST!!) The other night my friend and i were blasting music out of my 200W ALtec Lansing ADA995 5.1's. That same night i bought a 200gb harddrive. So after we were done listening to music i proceeded to take out my 60GB harddrive and install and format my new 200gb. All is great. I get windows XP with sp2 loaded up with all my driver etc. My speakrs make this hissing sound out of my rear speakers now. And when i turn them up they crackle really bad. Only on bass notes. (did not do this 45mins prior, before i installed new drive) So i updated drivers, no luck. Reformatted, no luck. I will now list everything i have tried
replace sound card with AUdigy 2 - same hiss and no sound out of rear speakers at all with this card.
try generic (no surround) sound card - works fine but of course so surround sound.
Tried taking out new HD and using my old 60gb - no change.
tried installing my sound card in another computer - works great!
tried on-board sound - works fine.
tried without SP2 - no change.
unplugged unneccasary cards and drives thinking it mihgt be power issue - no change.
tested speakers on generic sound card to make sure i didnt blow them- didnt blow them sounded crystal clear.
tried moving to different PCI slots thinking maybe i had a couple bad ones - no change!
Done every update possible - no change.
Reformatted and done no updates - no change
Not a heat issue i have a very well ventilated case 4 fans 2 exhaust 2 intake
i work on computers for a hobby and have built or re-built probably 50 or more computers. Yet this cursed problem i CANNOT fix. The ONLY thing i can even imagine it would be would be my PCI slots BUT my firewire, wifi, USB cards etc. work perfectly. What i dont get is how a brand new sound card (the audigy 2 i bought and tested) can not work either. Yet it not be the PCI slots because everything else works! This has truly honestly 200% stumped me. Oh and yes im sure my onboard sound is disabled. Ther are no errors or conflict in device manager. and i have all bios updates and mobo driers installed and have tried them NOT installed as well. :mad:
Here are my specs.
350W PS
AMD Athlon 2600+ Barton
MSI K7n2 Delta
Radeon 9600XT
Audigy LS
60GB maxtor
200gb Seagate
generic cd-rw
generic DVD
1GB generic ram
generic ieee1394 card
10/100 LAN card
netgear 802.11b/g wifi card.

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