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Sound hiccups after installing ASUS V9520 video card.

Every time my computer plays a sound, I encounter a brief, half-second freeze (like a hiccup). I started seeing this after installing a ASUS V9520 video card, the drivers for which didn't pass Windows Logo Testing. I went the website to get updated drivers; that didn't help. I removed the card and drivers; that didn't help. I also turned off the sound acceleration on the DirectX Diagnostic tool; that helped a little, but sometimes sounds don't play at all now.

Should I update my sound card (SIS 7012)?

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Re: Sound hiccups after installing ASUS V9520 video card.
Aug 29, 2004 10:27PM PDT

My bet is this is not a PC Hardware issue, but a software/driver/settings issue. Maybe your DMA settinga are not working, maybe motherboard drivers were not installed.

But I can't tell you much more since your post didn't tell what OS and what make/model motherboard. So I leave you to look into those issues. Remember that a bug in the XP OS shows DMA to be set, but it isn't. Fix? Set to PIO and OK it, then go back and set to DMA. Simple.

Bob

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Re: Sound hiccups after installing ASUS V9520 video card.

Thank you for replying to my post, Bob.

I'm running Windows XP w/Service Pack 2 (I was having problems before installing service pack 2), and the motherboard is a ASUS P4S-LA.

I reselected DMA on the primary IDE Channel and set the secondary IDE Channel to DMA, but it didn't help.

Thanks again,
John

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Re: Sound hiccups after installing ASUS V9520 video card.
Aug 30, 2004 8:58PM PDT

"I reselected DMA on the primary IDE Channel and set the secondary IDE Channel to DMA, but it didn't help."

That's not what I noted and shold have no effect. Hope you find out how to try the method I noted. Some try setting it to PIO, back to DMA and then OK, but that doesn't do it. It's an odd dance by Microsoft, I didn't write the tune.

Try installing motherboard drivers and the sound drivers.

bob