Concluded to be unfixable: X-fi Sound card

Vizy

Vizy

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I am the unfortunate owner of a Creative x-fi xtreme music sound card. the sound was crisp and clean, and i really loved it. Now my sound is amazingly horrible at times.

when i say 'times' i mean when i open up an application. thats when it happens and also...for some odd reason, whenever i start up halo: combat evolved, the cracking, broken, distorted sound is their for the music that plays. but when i am at the menu, everything is all good. and whenever i get booted from a server, or i get the 'server is full' note from the game i notice that the sound gets distorted horribly, but once i trurn to main menu, the sound is once again perfect.

my speakers....are not the problem, they work fine with other computers. i also can plug them into my ipod....and the sound is pefect.

i personally feel that it has something to do with the 'resources' being used. cause whenever the sound distorts....my comp slows down a bit. like when opening an application...its takes longer than it used to when my sound was perfect. the sound also distorts when i boot up windows...and shut it off.

wierd. i tried all the usuall driver sheeznits so thats not a problem. i reseated my card, tried different ports and thats not a problem either.

i have a crap picture of the soundcard...i took it with my 1.3 mp phone so its really crap... but ive noticed that ontop of 3 of my 4 ports of the soundcard...it is slightly browned...like cooked...burned...spiked.... etc.

i will try the soundcard in a diff computer really quick and see if anything happens...wish me luck. ill post back results :D
 
After completing the past said events...well sort of...the sound card works PERFECTLY in my dads comp with:

Vista-Home premium
1 gb of stock ram
amd 4000+

I'm not going to lie here, but my comp kicks that little Compaq's booty. the sound card worked flawlessy there. Any suggestion? its 2:30 AM right now, so i am off to bed. I really don't know what is up!

Do you?


Mucho apreciation guys, thnx fo real
 
Vizy, does your Dad's PC have a VIA chipset? I've read that a lot of motherboards with VIA chipsets don't like Creative soundcards. My recently-retired FIC had a VIA chipset and any Creative card I tried in it did the exact same thing.
 
OvenMaster said:
Vizy, does your Dad's PC have a VIA chipset? I've read that a lot of motherboards with VIA chipsets don't like Creative soundcards. My recently-retired FIC had a VIA chipset and any Creative card I tried in it did the exact same thing.
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IDK if he has a VIA chipset. But the thing is that the Sound Card works FLAWLESSLY on his computer. no distortion or anything. And to add on what i mentioned earlier, the sound card used to work perfectly on my OWN build for about 3 months, then it went downward from there:(
 
hackapelite said:
That's sounds a bit extreme...but you could try playing some mp3's or something on a linux distro booted off a live cd, don't have to install anything.
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I had to do that once with my old sound card. I seriously did everything i could and it still slows down when I'm doing CPU intensive tasks. A clean reformat solved the problem.
 
I might try the live CD thing tomorrow, and if it doesnt work, i just might need to do complete format...which is ood anyways, ive been looking around for a new hdd. thnx guys:D
 
I SOLVED THIS MUTHER* I GOT THIS!!!

i am so happy right now, like you will not believe. All i had to to was s\set my bitrate or Khz to 44.1 instead of a higher bitrate and i am the most orgasmic feeling right now. Seriously, i dont think that sex can even be better than this.
 
That's why you don't buy the XtremeAudio, and get the Xtrememusic :). I would just give up and get the next card up, as you're just wasting your time trying to get an overpriced Audigy SE to work.
 
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