My mother board is gigabyte Ga-7N400 pro 2 rev2.0 BIOS FF.

My sound card is creative audigy 2 zs

i have problems playing the music.
some gliching noise comes out, sometimes it has a pattern, and sometimes it just occurs when i clicked in folders or programs.

But these problems don't occur when i'm watching some video.

i recorded a sample of the noise and put it on the internet.
http://home.gigigaga.com/davincegiga/noise.mp3
the link above is the sound at first.
and the link beneath is the latest.
http://home.gigigaga.com/davincegiga/noise2.mp3

Does anyone know how to solve it.
I've contact creative support and i've reinstall my os two times.

thx

Hmh, to me this problem sounds very similar to a problem me and a few other people had using motherboards with nforce2 chipsets.

It seems that the nforce2 chipset is very problematic with sound issues and creates random (and quite unexplainable) glitches during different kind of audio related things. Mostly these seem to occur during typing and window operations (ie.: closing windows on the desktop, etc).

I owned such a motherboard for a short while and then ended up returning it and exchanging it for one with a different chipset (VIA KT 600), because I could not solve it's sound issues. Both with either different pci soundcards or the onboard sound chip.

Haven't been able to listen to the mp3 you provided yet, because downloading it gave me an error.

Yes!!
the glitches occur during typing and window operations.

The only option is to change a board?

But which one to choose?

Hmh, I am not saying that the only option is switching the board. Since I discovered this issue right after installing the motherboard, it was quite easy for me to return it to the store after a few days and simply get it exchanged for a different one.

After trying to solve the problem for a few days this definitely seemed the sanest option to me. And the different chipset definitely did not show any of these problems.

Also I of course can not 100% guarantee that this is really the problem in your case, but somehow it highly supicously sounds like it. After all there seem to be people operating nforce2 boards without problems. It is just that in the recent past many problems concerning sound issues with them have been reportet by various people.

In case however you do decide to switch motherboard, it is probably the best idea to go for a VIA KT 600 based board from one of the better known manufacturers. So far I haven't heard from any people personally having any issues with them. You should be able to pick one up for quite a decent price to replace your old one with it.

Well, I think changing a board seems very unlikely.
Because i have three hard drive, and the current mother board has IDE RAID function which i've been using it for installing more hard drive for downloading.

And I've found other boards from gigabyte that has the same function, but they're all Athlon 64 which is not my current cpu and isn't the processor i can afford.



I really want to have a good music..

I have had a major progress.

I played many mp3 files in foobar 2000 and in windows media player.

But those glitches do occur while the mp3 file is being played in foobar 2000, but they don't if the file's being played in media player.

I suppose you could try changing the output plugin you use with foobar2000 or increasing the buffer length for your current output plugin and see if that helps. Also, if the mp3 files from your first post aren't too large, you could try uploading one or both in the foobar2000 uploads forum. I couldn't get either of your links to work.

If you are using the DirectSound output, try checking "Allow hardware mixing" from the settings, since this is the default behavior for most DirectSound based applications. Explicitly forcing software mixing, as is the case when that box is unchecked, normally avoids bugs rather than causing them, but something strange might be happening in your case. Your mileage may vary.

Well, I'm not good in linking it to the uploads area, so i just put the hyperlink on.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....t=0#entry227711

Okay, those noise samples don't sound like a buffer problem. Try changing output plugins or, like kode54 suggested, using DirectSound with hardware mixing allowed.

Now, I'm having a new problem.

When I was typing fast or pulling scrollering, glitches comes out.

And especially at scrollering in webpages or in folders, foobar2000 sometimes stops playing and stuck, sometimes with glitches.

What kind of problems do i have, and how do i solve it?

I have modified the output as the directsound 2.0 with hardware mixing and increase the butter to 8000 ms.

Now playing music often stopped while playing in foobar2000, but if the files are being played in media player, the music won't stop during the playback.


BTW, does any know about kx project?

To be honest, I don't think I've seen a problem like yours where playback is fine in Windows Media Player but falls apart in foobar. Under the, "Playback," preferences, do you have the Playback thread priority turned all the way up to, "Max?" Also, are you using any DSP's that might be slowing foobar down? Finally, what's your Output data format?

I'm sorry for asking so many questions, but I'm mostly stumped and I'm trying to bring up everything I can think of that could be doing something like this.

Yes, the playback thread priority has been at max,and the only DSP i'm using is volume control.

My output data format is currently using directsound 2.0 which has been allowed hardware mixing, 8000 ms buffer, and using SB audigy audio a000 as the driver.


Not at all, I'm really thankful to have you reply.


Thank you very much.

Sorry if I was a little unclear after all that talk about the output plugin. What I meant when I talked about the output data format was what bit depth you had foobar set to output under the, "Playback," options. I was thinking that something higher than 16-bit fixed-point might cause the problems you're having, though I'm not sure about it since I don't have an Audigy 2 or an nForce board. Other than that, I can't think of anything that would make foobar2000 not work while Windows Media Player does.

This occurs when playing all kinds of audio in foobar2000, right?

Oh, because i have the audigy 2 zs so i have turned the output data format to 24bit fixed poing.

It occurs when playing all kinds of audio, that's right.

I'll try to lower the bit depth.

Hmmm...
It seems that changing the bit depth back to 16bit fixed point fixed the problem.

What's the different between 16bit and 24bit?
My teacher says 24bit provide much better music performance than 16bit.


Why I couldn't use 24bit?


thank you very much

If your sound hardware doesn't support it, you shouldn't use it. Audigy does not support 24 bit output.

It's just fine for editing, of course.