Quote:Originally posted by DosFreak:
No probs here....mabye it's you guy's VIA chipset? Try moving the sound card to a difference PCI slot and/or underclocking.

hmmmmm.. see a pattern here Dragon-Lord

Perhaps he is pissed off at your obvious (and blatantly ignorant) arrogance, assuming that people "do not do their homework" before buying such gear. Many of the people on this site are IT managers and professionals. Many are acknowledged experts in the field. It doesn't mean they don't have problems...in fact, professionals learn by such threads as these...
 
I mean, I remember a thread on this very site wherein someone bought the exact same tyan mobo as you did (I am sure partly because you kept saying how great your system is) and was having problems that were clearly bios related. Your recommendation to him was as it has always been "gee, my system works great! teehee". He went to the Tyan website for help and found that Tyan mentioned major issues that matched his problems that were being addressed. Fortunately for you, you weren't experiencing them. That was good to know (for you) but didn't help him. Get the point?
 
You continue to miss the fact that people are running problematic systems under Win2K that run/ran flawlessly under Win98. That points to clearly driver, OS, bios issues with their gear. That is what a board like this, IMHO, is here to help with - advanced tech support for problematic issues.
 
So, you can point out how well your system works as often as you want, but it has long passed the point of being annoying, and I think the gentleman posting above had clearly reached the point of no return. hehe
 
So, I am not sure what *your* agenda is her, but myself and others are either looking for help and information, or offering what assistance we can to those who need it.
 
Peace,
 
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ok i have to say that i do have a via MVP3 chipset running a k6-3. but what do u mean by underclocking - the cpu is overclocked from 450 to 500 but im thinking that ur talking about the pci bus right?

THe sound from my SBlive value is rather disappointing. In winamp the direct sound output is crap. With my SB64 it'll run at 100ms buffer w/ 1K blocks, thats the best it can go. No jumping, stuttering, or what so ever.
 
The sblive is far, far, worse. 300ms w/10k blocks, stuttering, lost sync (where the sound permenantly goes broken), and it skips when another song is started. Can't mix tunes with this. Still got to try the updates though. Winxx is even worse. (but its OK for games)
 
Beos Question... Yes there are a lot of cards that have the full raw gain enabled. If there is no option in the media server that seems to alter the gain then look around on the net @ www.benews.com, www.begroovy.com forums, and www.betips.net
this one isn't for you http://www.betips.net/cgi-bin/chunga.pl?ID=tip482
Too complicated http://www.betips.net/cgi-bin/chunga.pl?ID=tip187

I agree with Ronin...Buy cheap equipment and you have problems. If you are a IT or professional you are doing your company a diservice by buy cheap junk..... ha ha at you!
 
PS: I have been using the same old SB Live card I have owned for three years... ha ha

How exactly does one go about buying a "cheap junk" sblive? Or maybe you mean supermicro makes junk, or intel? I mean, these are the people who are having problems with SBlive also...
 
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You are correct that most of those compaines make good products...however not all products work together. Knowing which products that work the best with each other is the real trick. We keep it smiple and never have any hardware issues.

I've got a pretty damned standard mobo, an AOpen AX6BC with an Intel P3-550, not overclocked, and 100% stable. I can definately say it's not a VIA/SIS/ALi only problem.
 
My SB Live! works perfectly under Win9x but crackles under 2000. Nothing too major, only notice it about once every couple of hours. I'd list my whole spec but the problem happens with just my ATI graphics card the SB Live in it as well.
 
The best giveaway of the problem is to use Winamp for a few minutes, pause it, then make explorer 'beep' at you somehow. It sounds as if the buffer has been corrupted.
 
And Ronin, you are indeed of no help at all, go brag in another forum.

Creative have acknowledged that their liveware drivers are broken on SMP based machines in windows 2000. Are those expensive dual boards cheap junk? No... Creatives drivers are junk, that has been the problem time and again. So don't automatically assume that because someone is having a problem its because they bought bargain basement components. Win2k support is spotty for *many* manufacturers who make very high quality hardware.
 
Ning

We use Abit or Asus MB, W2K, SBL no problems at all....Maybe it is worth $120 to try. Hope this helps.

The manufacturer of the board makes next to no difference (unless they've added some 'extras', eg. BE6). The chipset is important, I'm using a standard Intel BX based board, and have had no problems or issues with it at all.
 
Since my SB Live works perfectly under the Win9x kernel I see no reason why people keep believing it's a hardware problem (SMP issues aside).
 
My boards linked up to a pretty decent hi-fi system too, so I might be hearing something you guys don't on your ****e PC-World desktop speakers.
It's down to one of two things I reckon, either a PCI latency problem (powerstrip FAQ has info about this) where Win2K is changing the latency of the video and/or audio boards. Or it's a driver issue, specifically in the buffer I think, might be a problem with DMA transfers.
 
Read my previous post on how to see if you've got the same problem. Going into the sound control panel to force a 'beep' works too, remember to try it with Winamp *paused* after a few seconds.
 
Sorry if I'm talking complete bollocks, I wouldn't be suprised if the different results are because of the many 'models' of SB Live!. Check out the .inf files, there's quite a few.

i am using a dolby prologic amp not some ****ty speakers

I reinstalled DX and the problem fixed its self.