Onboard Audio Crackling (Asus P5K Deluxe)

[shk]

Aparently no one has a clue what's going on with my computer so I came to my last resort before having to buy a separate card.

Asus P5K Deluxe + e6600 + 2gb crucial 8500
WD 150 raptor
maxtor 250gb (7y250p0) & hitachi 500gb (HDS725050KLAT80) on a parallel cable


Anytime I use the Hitachi or Maxtor hard drives (torrenting, data transfer, etc) my sound cracks, pops, and distorts in various ways. The heavier the hard drive use, the worse the sound gets.

The funny thing is, it could be sound playing from the raptor (totally separate) or even sound playing from my browser/system. Regardless of the source, the sound will sound funky.

I have a digital coaxial out right now but I've tried the regular analog and it has the same problem.

Any thoughts?

[SL59]

Have your tried muting the line in, mic in, CD in etc etc?

[shk]

Have your tried muting the line in, mic in, CD in etc etc?

Yes I have muted everything except master and wave and it still sounds horrible.

I've done a few tests on the drives and they seem to be working at an extremely slow speed. Something around 2MB/s. So I guess this thread is in the wrong section - I'm going to try to fix the hard drives and experiment some more, otherwise repost in storage.

[infrared]

Mine does the same, it's pretty bad.

The cheap SoundMAX sound Asus decided to use certainly isn't as good as the Realtek sound on my old P5W DH Dlx or P5WD2 Premium.

[shk]

Mine does the same, it's pretty bad.

The cheap SoundMAX sound Asus decided to use certainly isn't as good as the Realtek sound on my old P5W DH Dlx or P5WD2 Premium.

I fixed mine; I think it's more a problem of the sound together with a PATA drive. For some reason my Hitachi 500gb was running at 2 MB/s (did benchmark) so any extra use saturated that speed and created serious distortion/problems.

I added an IDE extension card, put the hitachi on there, and now it runs like a charm.

Perhaps this will help you out, infrared, if you use parallel/IDE drives in your system as well.

[xlink]

try overclcoking the PCI bus. I know some setups starve the PCI bus for bandwidth. cracling on SNES 9x(when set to 44Hz) stopped when I OCed my PCI-e bus to 108MHz.

[dunn2953]

i have this same issue on my P5k Premium, it makes movie watching and game playing impossable. i may have to try overclocking the PCI bus but this is known to have serius side effects from corrupting hard drives to totally ruining them.

[shk]

Yea I just used the expansion card I had laying around.

Soon I will just transfer everything over to SATA; many people/mobos have problems running IDE and SATA together so rather keep everything SATA.

[Donnie27]

Yea I just used the expansion card I had laying around.

Soon I will just transfer everything over to SATA; many people/mobos have problems running IDE and SATA together so rather keep everything SATA.

New Problem with new boards. I'm running One IDE DVD-Burner and One SATA Burner, had and IDE HDD with a Serial 2 IDE converter and two SATA HDD's. On the 965, this caused zero problems. I'll look at getting a P35 if not X38 after I have only SATA-Drives and thanks for the info!

[hstuehmeyer2000]

use the newest drivers from asus's website