Intermittent Sound Distortion

seeker · 07-06-09, 01:08 PM

A problem that I haven't had before, is that on my XP x64 installation there is often a significant distortion or breaking up of sound. This doesn't seem to be associated with any particular program, but occurs when I have previously been running some other program with sound previously. It is kind of like as though there were a cache that had become filled with old sound files and didn't have any room left for the new.

Rebooting clears the problem for a while, but will return after switching between programs a bit. I reinstalled the sound driver, which did seem to improve the sound, but didn't solve the problem. I searched the driver for anything that appeared to be a cache, but found none. I'm wondering if like a video driver, that the sound driver may have left some bits behind , after the reinstallation? Since this problem has only appeared on this OS, of my multi-boot system, I don't believe that there is a hardware problem.

Is there anything that I may have overlooked?

07-06-09, 01:08 PM	#1
seeker AKA seekermeister Join Date: May 2005 Location: At home Posts: 1,442	Intermittent Sound Distortion A problem that I haven't had before, is that on my XP x64 installation there is often a significant distortion or breaking up of sound. This doesn't seem to be associated with any particular program, but occurs when I have previously been running some other program with sound previously. It is kind of like as though there were a cache that had become filled with old sound files and didn't have any room left for the new. Rebooting clears the problem for a while, but will return after switching between programs a bit. I reinstalled the sound driver, which did seem to improve the sound, but didn't solve the problem. I searched the driver for anything that appeared to be a cache, but found none. I'm wondering if like a video driver, that the sound driver may have left some bits behind , after the reinstallation? Since this problem has only appeared on this OS, of my multi-boot system, I don't believe that there is a hardware problem. Is there anything that I may have overlooked? __________________ Rig 1: HAF 922, X2 4400+, Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe , 4x1GB DDR400, 2x500GB, 1x80GB & 1x250GB + ESATCASE2 w/2x1TB HDs, LG CH10LS20 & GH22LS50, Samsung SH-S202N, Asus Xonar D2X,Creative 5.1, GTX460 SC, FusionHDTV7 Gold RT, Acer X233H, Arris TM520G, Cisco E3000, Scythe Kama, CM RS600 PS,HP 5510v,APC BX1000, XP x64, W7 & Kubuntu 9.10 Rig 2: Antec SX1040BII, A8N-SLI, 2x1GB DDR400, 8800GTS, 1x500GB & 1x1TB HDs, Liteon LH-20AIL and Pioneer DVR-111, Audigy 2 ZS, Creative T20 2.1, Antec 500SP, W7 x64 & XP MCE