sound card problem maybe

[brett74]

Hi I've been having a problem with my sound I have win xp sp3 and also have a soundblaster audiogy sound card I've updated the drivers and it didn't help i've also did a repair install on windows and then reinstalled the drivers thinking maybe a virus that  had messed things up but that didn't help I even tried to reinstall the games and nothing worked right now I'm thinking it maybe my card but I'm not sure. I'm playing battlefield 42 and battlefield 2 and now it seems to do it when I play a regular cd too. I've also  pulled the card out and put it back in and still nothing cured it. I've even put it in another slot but that didn't work.

[patio]

Easiest way to determine if it's the card would be to swap it into another machine and install the drivers...

[BC_Programmer]

or if another spare card is lying around, install that one and see if it works properly.

[brett74]

I have another pc here but it has freespire on it could I just install the card in that computer

[BC_Programmer]

freespire? is that another Sound card?

[brett74]

It's a version of linux it's like linspire. I put the sound card in my other pc and it worked great so right now I'm thinking it has something to do with the motherboard or processor

[patio]

If it worked fine in the other machine then the XP machine probably has the wrong drivers installed.
Remove the device completely in device manager and use Add/Remove programs to remove all Sound Blaster software and start over...
Use the original drivers if you have them.

[brett74]

okay I've tried what you told me to do and I still have the problem I've also updated the drivers again and then I set it on 24bit instead of 16 bit and it does sound a little better

[BC_Programmer]

Wait a second- what were the original issues anyway?

[brett74]

okay when i'm playing battlefield42 and I get a map loading the sound will start out slow and distorted and it will still do it until the map is loaded then when I start the game it seems to work just fine. This has been going on since I got the vundo virus a couple of months ago and I thought that I had it cleaned actually probably longer than that it just suddenly started back then so anyways this past week I did a repair install on windows and reinstalled my programs and sound card drivers but it still did it. So yesterday I did what you guys told me and the card worked great in my linux machine so I know that the card is fine now and today I uninstalled the old driver and installed the new one and changed the bit depth in device control and now in battlefield 42 I do not notice it hardly at all. There's some sound lag a tiny bit but nothing like it was