I have a horrible audio problem

liquid wrote on 9/25/2003, 7:44 AM
Last night after I instaled my 1394 card, vegas wouldn't recognize it. So i decided to do a fresh instal of vegas. But when I got started again, my audio settings were buggy. The audio is choppy and full of artifact...WTF!!! I have a high end edirol audio card, and have been using acid to do music with for years without a glitch...! Now even acid is having the same problem....what should I do? I've tryed re-installing the drivers for my sound card 3 or 4 times and it's not doing anything...I haven't changed any other settings...I fear I may have to do a fresh windows install....:-(

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mcgeedo wrote on 9/25/2003, 7:56 AM
Before you do a fresh Win install, I would try taking out the 1394 card. If this significantly improves the audio (back to where you were), then you may have a driver issue with the card. Let us know what 1394 card you are trying to use. Maybe someone else has had similar issues.

Good luck,
-Don
John_Cline wrote on 9/25/2003, 8:52 AM
On most motherboards, some PCI slots share the same interrupt with other PCI slots, so there could be a conflict there. Also, on some motherboards, the PCI slot next to the AGP slot shares the AGP interrupt. In that case, it not a good idea to have a card in that first PCI slot. Before you reinstall your OS, try putting the 1394 card in another available PCI slot.

Win2k is usually pretty good about sharing interrupts, but this may be more of a motherboard issue than an OS issue. Did the OS recognize the 1394 card but not Vegas? That's kind of unusual. If the OS had recognized it properly then Vegas would have almost certainly seen it as Vegas does not address the 1394 card directly, but goes through the OS.

John
johnmeyer wrote on 9/25/2003, 9:42 AM
Clearly a problem with the 1394 card. Start by taking it out. See if the audio is then OK. Then, try putting it back in, but in a different slot. Exchange with another card if there is only one slot free.