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P4PE Problems--another try
posted to this NG some time ago with my problems with Asus P4PE. After much
struggle seems that I've resolves most of them. System(win2k) feels much faster, finally got my onboard lan to work. However one problem that i still can not solve is onboard sound. The sound is often unacceptable. While playing many files that I know for a fact to be high quality I get a lot of crackling and a lot of 'tapping' sounds and a lot of noise (however other files sound OK). I seem to have installed all the latest drivers etc from asus website but that didn't help. However here are several clues that might be relevant. 1. When I was installing drivers from Asus cd I started getting errors something like "could not find entry point for the driver \some\weird\path_here\filename" 2. installed windows XP on the same mobo and that helped the sound problem a lot(although didnt solve it completely). However Id rather use win2k so using winxp is not an option. 3. I think that right after fresh install of win2k the sound was better than when I started messing around with sound settings. Is there a way to get all the sound settings to the way they were when the system was freshly installed. I tried uninstalling soundmax but that didnt help. I've also contacted Asus technical support many days ago but am yet to receive any reply. So it looks like you guys are my only hope. I was thinking of buying a 20$ sound card but that would be like giving up since what is the point of buying such an expensive mobo if I can't get it to work. TIA |
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mad amoeba stood up, at show-n-tell, and said: posted to this NG some time ago with my problems with Asus P4PE. After much struggle seems that I've resolves most of them. System(win2k) feels much faster, finally got my onboard lan to work. However one problem that i still can not solve is onboard sound. The sound is often unacceptable. While playing many files that I know for a fact to be high quality I get a lot of crackling and a lot of 'tapping' sounds and a lot of noise (however other files sound OK). I seem to have installed all the latest drivers etc from asus website but that didn't help. 1st rule: if sound matters, get a sound card. onboard sound/video is for workstations. However here are several clues that might be relevant. 1. When I was installing drivers from Asus cd I started getting errors something like "could not find entry point for the driver \some\weird\path_here\filename" 2. installed windows XP on the same mobo and that helped the sound problem a lot(although didnt solve it completely). However Id rather use win2k so using winxp is not an option. 3. I think that right after fresh install of win2k the sound was better than when I started messing around with sound settings. Is there a way to get all the sound settings to the way they were when the system was freshly installed. I tried uninstalling soundmax but that didnt help. I've also contacted Asus technical support many days ago but am yet to receive any reply. So it looks like you guys are my only hope. I was thinking of buying a 20$ sound card but that would be like giving up since what is the point of buying such an expensive mobo if I can't get it to work. Just cuz the mobo is expensive means crap, as far as onboard sound and video go. do yourself a favor and get the $20 card. TIA -- I'm sorry. Apparently, I'm feeling a little too psychotic this morning. -The main character in Postal 2 |
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several followup Qs if you dont mind:
how do i get to sound mixer.(Control Panel==then where) by chip manufacterer do you mean nvidia(that's what it says during startup) thanx a lot for replying. "JAD" wrote in message rthlink.net... remove the sound card from device manager then uninstall the sound mixer(if separate) reboot. try using a driver set from the chip manufacturer rather than asus. often times these can work better. "mad amoeba" wrote in message et... posted to this NG some time ago with my problems with Asus P4PE. After much struggle seems that I've resolves most of them. System(win2k) feels much faster, finally got my onboard lan to work. However one problem that i still can not solve is onboard sound. The sound is often unacceptable. While playing many files that I know for a fact to be high quality I get a lot of crackling and a lot of 'tapping' sounds and a lot of noise (however other files sound OK). I seem to have installed all the latest drivers etc from asus website but that didn't help. However here are several clues that might be relevant. 1. When I was installing drivers from Asus cd I started getting errors something like "could not find entry point for the driver \some\weird\path_here\filename" 2. installed windows XP on the same mobo and that helped the sound problem a lot(although didnt solve it completely). However Id rather use win2k so using winxp is not an option. 3. I think that right after fresh install of win2k the sound was better than when I started messing around with sound settings. Is there a way to get all the sound settings to the way they were when the system was freshly installed. I tried uninstalling soundmax but that didnt help. I've also contacted Asus technical support many days ago but am yet to receive any reply. So it looks like you guys are my only hope. I was thinking of buying a 20$ sound card but that would be like giving up since what is the point of buying such an expensive mobo if I can't get it to work. TIA |
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actually sorry. I think nvidia video card chip.
How do I figure out what my audio chip manufacturer is. thank you "JAD" wrote in message rthlink.net... remove the sound card from device manager then uninstall the sound mixer(if separate) reboot. try using a driver set from the chip manufacturer rather than asus. often times these can work better. "mad amoeba" wrote in message et... posted to this NG some time ago with my problems with Asus P4PE. After much struggle seems that I've resolves most of them. System(win2k) feels much faster, finally got my onboard lan to work. However one problem that i still can not solve is onboard sound. The sound is often unacceptable. While playing many files that I know for a fact to be high quality I get a lot of crackling and a lot of 'tapping' sounds and a lot of noise (however other files sound OK). I seem to have installed all the latest drivers etc from asus website but that didn't help. However here are several clues that might be relevant. 1. When I was installing drivers from Asus cd I started getting errors something like "could not find entry point for the driver \some\weird\path_here\filename" 2. installed windows XP on the same mobo and that helped the sound problem a lot(although didnt solve it completely). However Id rather use win2k so using winxp is not an option. 3. I think that right after fresh install of win2k the sound was better than when I started messing around with sound settings. Is there a way to get all the sound settings to the way they were when the system was freshly installed. I tried uninstalling soundmax but that didnt help. I've also contacted Asus technical support many days ago but am yet to receive any reply. So it looks like you guys are my only hope. I was thinking of buying a 20$ sound card but that would be like giving up since what is the point of buying such an expensive mobo if I can't get it to work. TIA |
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Have you checked that it could be the speakers' faults. What about the wire
connections to the speakers, especially the plugs, does it fit snugly and correctly. Are the wire (cables) connected smoothly with the plugs or connectors. Hope this helps. "mad amoeba" wrote in message et... posted to this NG some time ago with my problems with Asus P4PE. After much struggle seems that I've resolves most of them. System(win2k) feels much faster, finally got my onboard lan to work. However one problem that i still can not solve is onboard sound. The sound is often unacceptable. While playing many files that I know for a fact to be high quality I get a lot of crackling and a lot of 'tapping' sounds and a lot of noise (however other files sound OK). I seem to have installed all the latest drivers etc from asus website but that didn't help. However here are several clues that might be relevant. 1. When I was installing drivers from Asus cd I started getting errors something like "could not find entry point for the driver \some\weird\path_here\filename" 2. installed windows XP on the same mobo and that helped the sound problem a lot(although didnt solve it completely). However Id rather use win2k so using winxp is not an option. 3. I think that right after fresh install of win2k the sound was better than when I started messing around with sound settings. Is there a way to get all the sound settings to the way they were when the system was freshly installed. I tried uninstalling soundmax but that didnt help. I've also contacted Asus technical support many days ago but am yet to receive any reply. So it looks like you guys are my only hope. I was thinking of buying a 20$ sound card but that would be like giving up since what is the point of buying such an expensive mobo if I can't get it to work. TIA |
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yes i did try it with 2 different sets of speakers. I just did a little
research on google.groups and it seems that there seems to be a bios bug with asus p4pe mobos. I tried suggested workarounds sucha s increasing the frequency of PCI and updating BIOS etc but that didnt help as well. I have the latest BIOS- 1005 "blackgold" wrote in message ... Have you checked that it could be the speakers' faults. What about the wire connections to the speakers, especially the plugs, does it fit snugly and correctly. Are the wire (cables) connected smoothly with the plugs or connectors. Hope this helps. "mad amoeba" wrote in message et... posted to this NG some time ago with my problems with Asus P4PE. After much struggle seems that I've resolves most of them. System(win2k) feels much faster, finally got my onboard lan to work. However one problem that i still can not solve is onboard sound. The sound is often unacceptable. While playing many files that I know for a fact to be high quality I get a lot of crackling and a lot of 'tapping' sounds and a lot of noise (however other files sound OK). I seem to have installed all the latest drivers etc from asus website but that didn't help. However here are several clues that might be relevant. 1. When I was installing drivers from Asus cd I started getting errors something like "could not find entry point for the driver \some\weird\path_here\filename" 2. installed windows XP on the same mobo and that helped the sound problem a lot(although didnt solve it completely). However Id rather use win2k so using winxp is not an option. 3. I think that right after fresh install of win2k the sound was better than when I started messing around with sound settings. Is there a way to get all the sound settings to the way they were when the system was freshly installed. I tried uninstalling soundmax but that didnt help. I've also contacted Asus technical support many days ago but am yet to receive any reply. So it looks like you guys are my only hope. I was thinking of buying a 20$ sound card but that would be like giving up since what is the point of buying such an expensive mobo if I can't get it to work. TIA |
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Contrl panel add / remove programs remove any listings pertaining to the
sound card or its software. You will need to go to the asus site and look at the sound specs/features of the board. "mad amoeba" wrote in message et... several followup Qs if you dont mind: how do i get to sound mixer.(Control Panel==then where) by chip manufacterer do you mean nvidia(that's what it says during startup) thanx a lot for replying. "JAD" wrote in message rthlink.net... remove the sound card from device manager then uninstall the sound mixer(if separate) reboot. try using a driver set from the chip manufacturer rather than asus. often times these can work better. "mad amoeba" wrote in message et... posted to this NG some time ago with my problems with Asus P4PE. After much struggle seems that I've resolves most of them. System(win2k) feels much faster, finally got my onboard lan to work. However one problem that i still can not solve is onboard sound. The sound is often unacceptable. While playing many files that I know for a fact to be high quality I get a lot of crackling and a lot of 'tapping' sounds and a lot of noise (however other files sound OK). I seem to have installed all the latest drivers etc from asus website but that didn't help. However here are several clues that might be relevant. 1. When I was installing drivers from Asus cd I started getting errors something like "could not find entry point for the driver \some\weird\path_here\filename" 2. installed windows XP on the same mobo and that helped the sound problem a lot(although didnt solve it completely). However Id rather use win2k so using winxp is not an option. 3. I think that right after fresh install of win2k the sound was better than when I started messing around with sound settings. Is there a way to get all the sound settings to the way they were when the system was freshly installed. I tried uninstalling soundmax but that didnt help. I've also contacted Asus technical support many days ago but am yet to receive any reply. So it looks like you guys are my only hope. I was thinking of buying a 20$ sound card but that would be like giving up since what is the point of buying such an expensive mobo if I can't get it to work. TIA |
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