Charlie
Wed Nov 30 13:05:16 CST 2005
If you want an external one, take a look at the Creative USB model(Audigy
NX?). There are 64bit drivers for it, and it's a good overall solution. But
almost any add-on sound card will put less stress on the system than the
(frankly awful) built in AC97 chips.
--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
Dennis Gordon wrote:
> Yep, I do have the onboard audio. I also have 2 unused Seasound Solo
> external A/D interfaces that I could use... if only there were 64 bit
> drivers, which is unlikely, seeing that they went out of business 5 years
> ago. They work great with XP Pro.
>
> This really isn't a big problem. Why I was just playing some xmas music to
> the annoyance of many while doing my usual routines with nary a hiccup.
> Probably the easiest thing is just to turn down the juice on the
> machine...
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote in message
> news:uO$1Kmc9FHA.1028@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Got ya! :) Well, I have no idea why, but apparently something in the
>> music playing is pushing things beyond what you can handle at that OC.
>> I'm guessing, but do you use the onboard audio? If so, dump it and get a
>> good board from Creative or another that has solid x64 drivers. That will
>> offload it from the mobo and cpu much better.
>>
>> --
>> Charlie.
>>
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>>
>> Dennis Gordon wrote:
>>> OK, ya got me...;-) Yeah, I'm O/Cing my 2.0gz 3800x2 to 2.54, which is
>>> pretty high, but not unusual for this processor. My ram, with the
>>> divider,
>>> is at DDR422 or so. CPU temps are steady at around 40C and I've slightly
>>> bumped up the CPU voltage. So, upon further review, I see that I may
>>> have...ahem... been pushing things a bit when I last crashed, listening
>>> to
>>> some Merle Haggard whilst distilling a 100 meg PS file along with
>>> whatever
>>> else was going on...;-)
>>>
>>> So I do tend to ride my machine just below it's practical stable
>>> performance limit. But still, I only seem to crash when I'm playing
>>> music, something I'd presume a dual processor should deal with. I can
>>> virus scan or defrag or burn a CD and continue to work in InDesign or
>>> Outlook or IE like nothing is going on (something that would just slow
>>> my P4 at home to a crawl). But throwing on an MP3 seems to make me
>>> vulnerable, although it's not chronic, only occasional. So I guess
>>> lowering the speed by 5% would help... but what fun is that?...;-)
>>>
>>> I shouldn't overstate what's happening, when 99% of the time I'm running
>>> solid. Overclocking does stress things, obviously, so I should presume
>>> that's the root cause. I'm just looking for any tweaks that might help.
>>> Thanks...
>>>
>>>
>>> "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote in
>>> message news:%23igtEFX9FHA.1028@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>>> Dennis -- I do NOT see this on the Ferrari at all. I've got 5 Terminal
>>>> sessions open, Outook, OE, excel, 3 word documents, a remote VS
>>>> session, a couple of images open, 10 web pages in 32 bit IE, and
>>>> anther 5 in 64-bit IE, and I've been listening to some serious music
>>>> as I work on a final chapter for the next book. Now it's true, none of
>>>> the other windows are processor intensive. But the overall mix is
>>>> fairly typical of my workday. I've been running like this all day, and
>>>> will probably leave it up till I finish off the chapter tomorrow. I've
>>>> done several _large_ downloads, I'm running files back and forth
>>>> across the network, and this machine is triple-homed -- two Gb NICs on
>>>> two different networks, and the wireless on a third. All with only 1gb
>>>> of RAM. (Task manager says I'm running right at 996 Mb of commit
>>>> charge, so RAM is pretty much used up.)
>>>>
>>>> My point is -- look for what else could be going on. Maybe some iffy
>>>> RAM?
>>>> Maybe overheating? Are you overclocking at all?
>>>> --
>>>> Charlie.
>>>>
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>>>>
>>>> Dennis Gordon wrote:
>>>>> ...in 64 bit, is the same thing that crashes me in 32 bit. It's
>>>>> playing music in the background while working in other apps. I
>>>>> usually have many
>>>>> things running, often all day without a reboot... InDesign, Photoshop,
>>>>> Acrobat, IE, Outlook... whatever. I can run stable all day long doing
>>>>> lots of photo work, distilling, network access, FTPing large files,
>>>>> downloading... I also like to run some music, usually using Media
>>>>> Player. If I do so, sooner or later I'll get a ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga
>>>>> stuttering sound and a blue screen, say when I'm printing or
>>>>> distilling. It doesn't happen often, but I can sense it coming
>>>>> sometimes. Once, maybe twice a day, if I'm using MP in the background.
>>>>> Otherwise I'm perfectly stable. I've had the same results in XP Pro.
>>>>>
>>>>> So what is it about media player that freaks out when I'm doing
>>>>> something else? It seems to happen when resources are low and memory
>>>>> leaking. Is there a good way to avoid this rare but annoying behavior?
>>>>> Does playing an MP3 put a strain on the system... is it a bug...
>>>>> should I be using Winamp instead? Just curious...