SOUND IMPROVEMENT !!!,,BUT?????

petethetim · Post by **petethetim** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:59 pm

SOUND IMPROVEMENT!!!,BUT?

Hi Folks

I fitted a sound card yesterday With much appreciated advice from the UKTS community , & it has improved things greatly Never mind the actual improvement in sound quality it's self I maxed all the sound settings & turned graphics to best performance & even on Dorset Coast or LSE I rarely now go into Single FPS & get all Bells, Whistles & bleeps etc etc ( even hear Bird song on some Routes)

Even with just windows running & a couple of web pages open & MS Messenger Running ,with Own board Sound I used to get "FreeRam Xp Pro 1.4" showing approximately 750 to 820 MBs of My 1.25GB free now since the installation of the Sound Card I sometimes get 1000 plus MB free .

But as our Chinese friends would say "For Every Sweet There is a Sour",& my own particular sour is it has doubled my windows boot up time, Does anybody know of any way I can tweak this to speed things up ?, I have magic Defrag so my HDD never gets fragmented & it was working fine till Sound card was installed

Regards

Pete

PS

I was unsure were to Put this Here or IN Open as It is I suppose more General than TS related So if a moderator deems it needs to be moved please feel free to move it to Open

tinsley · Post by **tinsley** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:36 pm

Did you turn off the onboard sound in the BIOS..???
Got the latest drivers..!!!
You probably have but can't think of anything else so far..

petethetim · Post by **petethetim** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:40 pm

Yes To Both Mate questions

rom11a · Post by **rom11a** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:36 am

I've just dragged a sound card out of one of my old door stop PCs and installed it in my latest, quite an improvement!
One thing I noticed though was that even with the on-board sound switched off in bios the AC97 drivers were still loading up in windows and conflicting with my soundblaster ones. I had to delete them from the system, it didn't improve the boot-up speed, but then I've got so much security . loading up to stop my daughter trashing the system it has always taken ages.

Steve Chambers

petethetim · Post by **petethetim** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:43 am

rom11a wrote:I've just dragged a sound card out of one of my old door stop PCs and installed it in my latest, quite an improvement!
One thing I noticed though was that even with the on-board sound switched off in bios the AC97 drivers were still loading up in windows and conflicting with my soundblaster ones. I had to delete them from the system, it didn't improve the boot-up speed, but then I've got so much security . loading up to stop my daughter trashing the system it has always taken ages.

Steve Chambers

Well Steve mine is a different case my start up time was approx.120 Seconds , it has now changed to 4 mins plus I got a tip from my local PCC store they said move it to the highest free PCI port to see if that improves things ,

It the did first time after the move ;It tried to reinstall its self I allowed it to do this but then after that the system boot up stalled at the memory / device check screen.

I had to start in safe mode then restore by last Good config & the original drivers were installed again but despite the port move it still takes 300 plus seconds to start sometimes

Regards

Pete

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:34 pm

Somebody posted a suggestion that made no sense at all. 2 replies were made.

In order to keep this thread relevant and factual I deleted those posts. The person who posted did so in good faith but the post was factually wrong and that will pollute the search engine on the forums.

Kindest regards

John