Sound skips/cracks under windows 7 32bits

[smiths22]

When I play any media that has sounds I get these periodical problems that sound like a skip or a scratch. I've downloaded the newest drivers of all my hardware.

Thanks for your help.

 

[dgenerationx]

hey psikofunkster im with u man i got the same prob i hoped by joining windows 7 forum i could find a solution to this problem but so far i havent got any solution if u work out how to fix it could u plz notify me straight away it would be very much apreciated thanks

 

[MyWin7]

Boys, do a forum search here and you will find plenty to read

 

[AaronDude]

You can try many things but most will not work or will only work for a while. Windows 7 just has a major problem with audio that needs fixed. Submit a bug report with microsoft, we can't get enough people to complain. Just hope that it gets fixed. Most people are pretty sure it has something to do with windows 7 because the audio works fine on earlier versions and we've also been purchasing sound cards that should work but have the problem as well. Personally though I'm not counting on a fix for months or years or ever. I'm just very upset and disappointed.

 

[chev65]

When I play any media that has sounds I get these periodical problems that sound like a skip or a scratch. I've downloaded the newest drivers of all my hardware.

Thanks for your help.

Maybe this updated driver made just for your VIA HD VT1708S sound card and Windows 7 will help. If this one doesn't work try the Asus site.


VIA HD Audio driver packageVersion: 7.300ARelease Date: Friday, August 21, 2009. Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows 7 64-Bit, Windows 7 32-Bit, Windows Vista 64-Bit, Windows Vista 32-Bit, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP 64-BitSupported Chips: VIA HD Audio Codec VT1708B, VIA HD Audio Codec VT1702S, VIA HD Audio Codec VT1708S

http://www.viaarena.com/displaydrivers.aspx?PageID=1&OSID=37&CatID=2930&SubCatID=202

 

[smiths22]

hey psikofunkster im with u man i got the same prob i hoped by joining windows 7 forum i could find a solution to this problem but so far i havent got any solution if u work out how to fix it could u plz notify me straight away it would be very much apreciated thanks

Hi man, one question do you have AHCI enabled?
BTW i posted my problem here too, in case you want to comment your problem too.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com...f/thread/aa07608c-8e05-41fa-a2be-64085c299953

You can try many things but most will not work or will only work for a while. Windows 7 just has a major problem with audio that needs fixed. Submit a bug report with microsoft, we can't get enough people to complain. Just hope that it gets fixed. Most people are pretty sure it has something to do with windows 7 because the audio works fine on earlier versions and we've also been purchasing sound cards that should work but have the problem as well. Personally though I'm not counting on a fix for months or years or ever. I'm just very upset and disappointed.

That's too bad.

When I play any media that has sounds I get these periodical problems that sound like a skip or a scratch. I've downloaded the newest drivers of all my hardware.

Thanks for your help.

Maybe this updated driver made just for your VIA HD VT1708S sound card and Windows 7 will help. If this one doesn't work try the Asus site.


VIA HD Audio driver packageVersion: 7.300ARelease Date: Friday, August 21, 2009. Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows 7 64-Bit, Windows 7 32-Bit, Windows Vista 64-Bit, Windows Vista 32-Bit, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP 64-BitSupported Chips: VIA HD Audio Codec VT1708B, VIA HD Audio Codec VT1702S, VIA HD Audio Codec VT1708S

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Thanks for trying to help man, very appreciated.

I've already downloaded those drivers a few weeks ago the problem persists but its less.


Could it be AHCI related? first i was thinking that my processor wasn't powerful enough but its fine, isn't it? Im obtaining 5.9 (windows experience eval).

 

[smiths22]

I want to mention another serious problem, when im playing video and make a pause after more than 5 minutes (more or less) when i press play there is no audio! and there is no way to have it back unless i reboot the pc!

This is a Windows 7 issue not my pc.

 

[MyWin7]

AHCI related is the problem certainly not - I suspect VIA as my hardware experience with VIA was not good, at the time being, especially concerning driver qualities. Maybe wait for a win7 driver

 

[aem]

From Toshia laptops at Dells to Lenovos, i found the crackling sound to be related to drivers which could extend to chipset drivers. If you think you've done all you could with drivers update, then i would compare the PCI Hardware IDs of the device with the driver's .inf file. As hard to believe is it may sound by the system might not be picking up the correct .inf file to use.

 

[smiths22]

AHCI related is the problem certainly not - I suspect VIA as my hardware experience with VIA was not good, at the time being, especially concerning driver qualities. Maybe wait for a win7 driver

Nop i have another pc with a soundmax integrated audio and the problem persists.

From Toshia laptops at Dells to Lenovos, i found the crackling sound to be related to drivers which could extend to chipset drivers. If you think you've done all you could with drivers update, then i would compare the PCI Hardware IDs of the device with the driver's .inf file. As hard to believe is it may sound by the system might not be picking up the correct .inf file to use.

Man you pc is less powerfull than mine, you don't have any problems with the audio?

 

[AaronDude]

I'm returning my new acer multimedia desktop for repair. I'm using my old laptop now I'm not so sure it's Windows 7 related anymore. We all just may have some piece of hardware going out. One techie guy on another board thought it could be the motherboard because my new external sound card had the same crackling and skipping. I'm bummed, this is a pain and will just cost more money.

 

[smiths22]

I'm returning my new acer multimedia desktop for repair. I'm using my old laptop now I'm not so sure it's Windows 7 related anymore. We all just may have some piece of hardware going out. One techie guy on another board thought it could be the motherboard because my new external sound card had the same crackling and skipping. I'm bummed, this is a pain and will just cost more money.

Not me, my mobo asus p5q pro turbo is windows 7 compatible i bought it a few week ago cause my older intel DG35EC wasn't.

Under windows XP i didn't have this kind of problem. Im blaming windows 7 100%.

 

[AaronDude]

I don't know what to believe anymore. Oh well, it's going to be acers problem now. I will just keep sending it in every time something doesn't work. My whole computer is four weeks old and has this problem. It came with Windows 7 64 bit premium so I imagine the mobo is compatible too. It could just be broke. I was thinking about it though and if windows 7 really caused all this wouldn't there be millions of people complaining about it? I could only really find this problem in these forums.

 

[belikexp]

From Toshia laptops at Dells to Lenovos, i found the crackling sound to be related to drivers which could extend to chipset drivers. If you think you've done all you could with drivers update, then i would compare the PCI Hardware IDs of the device with the driver's .inf file. As hard to believe is it may sound by the system might not be picking up the correct .inf file to use.

Your idea sounds interesting. Would you write a tutorial on how to compare PCI hardware IDs with the driver inf file?

 

[aem]

Will give it a go, i suppose.

 

[aem]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49350-driver-selection-your-hardware-devices.html

 

[smiths22]

So not everybody has this problem right? interesting... I change of mobo and the problem remains.

For example, when i pause a movie when using vlc media player (latest version) the sound cracks and it is not smooth anymore.

 

[smiths22]

Oh Jesus with divx 8 this problem is getting worse.

 

[SmokeyDC]

My computer is only a week old and it's impossible to listen to music on it becouse of cracking and slow playing. Olso my friend upgraded vista to seven and he is having the same problem now so it is definitely a windows 7 problem.

 

[neo101]

From Toshia laptops at Dells to Lenovos, i found the crackling sound to be related to drivers which could extend to chipset drivers. If you think you've done all you could with drivers update, then i would compare the PCI Hardware IDs of the device with the driver's .inf file. As hard to believe is it may sound by the system might not be picking up the correct .inf file to use.

Me three! Between reinstalling drivers and the odd microsoft update over the last couple of months my sound has settled down and no more glitches.

I too thought it woz not enough processor power coz I run a Barton 3000 on a 7 yr old socket A motherboard - but no it is purely crap implementation of various drivers and their interaction between each other on Windows 7.
(By the way all my MP3's are played/recorded on highest MP3 setting 320Kbps)

I was checking out the memory area used (in 'system') and Realtek shares with USB 2.0 chipset (with a very close/similar numeric memory mapped area)
- poss could the glitch problem be when USB Wireless download/Mouse movement/Sound kick into action etc