Strange Sounds O_o

substrukt · 07-12-2006, 06:47 AM

I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music sound card. Whenever I am in windows I hear strange noises when playing any kind of sound. I restart my computer and everything sounds normal. Whenever I turn my computer on I have to restart so that the sound works correctly. I've updated my drivers, tried different PCI slots, and uninstalled the driver from device manager then scanned for it again. For some reason my AGP video card is sharing the same IRQ as my sound card. Anyone have a solution for this problem?

**jnob** · 07-12-2006, 08:37 PM

Depending on your motherboard and bios there should be an option to manually change the IRQ of devices. You might be able to change the IRQ of the audio card there. On my ECS mb it's under PNP/PCI config -> Resources controlled by. It's set to auto by default but you can set it to manual and change IRQ's. On my MSI board it's a little bit trickier. From what I understand reading the manual it allows you to set each IRQ to PCI or ISA. So if you want to reserve the IRQ for the video card you could set that IRQ to ISA and no PCI devices should attempt to use that IRQ.

**Ralck** · 07-12-2006, 09:37 PM

You say you let your computer rescan for the driver? Are you using an XP bundled driver, or are you downloading a driver from Creative made for your card?

substrukt · 07-13-2006, 04:18 PM

All of my drivers are updated directly from the manufacturers site. I tried to go into my bios and change the IRQ and it only goes up to IRQ 15. The sound card and video card are on IRQ 16. How do I change IRQ 16?

07-12-2006, 06:47 AM	#1 (permalink)
substrukt Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP Professional	Strange Sounds O_o I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music sound card. Whenever I am in windows I hear strange noises when playing any kind of sound. I restart my computer and everything sounds normal. Whenever I turn my computer on I have to restart so that the sound works correctly. I've updated my drivers, tried different PCI slots, and uninstalled the driver from device manager then scanned for it again. For some reason my AGP video card is sharing the same IRQ as my sound card. Anyone have a solution for this problem? Last edited by substrukt; 07-12-2006 at 07:12 AM.

07-12-2006, 08:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
jnob TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Valley Posts: 692 OS: XP Pro, SP2 My System	Depending on your motherboard and bios there should be an option to manually change the IRQ of devices. You might be able to change the IRQ of the audio card there. On my ECS mb it's under PNP/PCI config -> Resources controlled by. It's set to auto by default but you can set it to manual and change IRQ's. On my MSI board it's a little bit trickier. From what I understand reading the manual it allows you to set each IRQ to PCI or ISA. So if you want to reserve the IRQ for the video card you could set that IRQ to ISA and no PCI devices should attempt to use that IRQ. __________________ Everest Memtest86

07-12-2006, 09:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
Ralck TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,454 OS: 98SE/XP PRO/FC4 My System	You say you let your computer rescan for the driver? Are you using an XP bundled driver, or are you downloading a driver from Creative made for your card? __________________ Power Supply Info Everyone Should Read! How to Post Your System Specs

07-13-2006, 04:18 PM	#4 (permalink)
substrukt Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP Professional	All of my drivers are updated directly from the manufacturers site. I tried to go into my bios and change the IRQ and it only goes up to IRQ 15. The sound card and video card are on IRQ 16. How do I change IRQ 16?