I recently bought a Dell (lol); after a couple days use, I get a horrible screeching noise anytime anything makes a sound (music, video, etc). Any way to fix this? I've looked for new drivers for teh card, but I've found nothing. :\
Also, for some strange reason, my cable connection seems to be capped at 242kbps down and 34 up. Any way to remove this stupid cap? I've fiddled with the network card's settings to no avail.
HALP :(
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Anonymous2006-05-28 1:05
No idea but a friend of mine gave me his old Dell after I built him a computer, saying that he had no use for it, and I have had the same problem during audio playback. It seems to happen a lot more often when I burn a disc from it.
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Cyn !preCLIRszg2006-05-29 4:36
Yeah, I've had problems with every sound card I've got in a Dell. I don't know what's up with them, but I got the horrible screeching noise in one, and with the other, it was making games LAG. Srsly, I replaced the sound card and everything was smooth.
Secondly, I really hope you mean k/s and not kbps. If so, that's normal, and your service provider just isn't that great. :/
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Anonymous2006-05-29 9:08
>>1
Don't know about the noise, and your network speeds, which are hopefully in KB/s, not kbps (there are two big differences between them), are pretty normal and you can't workaround them; read your ISP contract.
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Anonymous2006-05-29 16:45
No, I mean lowercase. My connection is fucking AWFUL since getting this new computer; it takes over 2 minutes to download something as small as 1.6 MB; and when downloading something that small, my connection begins lagging to all hell until that download is completed.
I'm thinking of just reformatting and installing XP corporate, I have a CD around here... :/
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Anonymous2006-05-29 16:59
>>1
Your first mistake was that you got a Dell in the first place but you seem to have realized this.
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Anonymous2006-05-29 19:28
>>3
In that case, what brand of PCI sound card do you recommend? I'm afraid I don't know too much about them. :/
>>8
That's true in a way: PCI sound cards always sucked and their drivers were pathetic.
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Anonymous2006-05-30 8:34
I have an agp sound card in my basement lolz
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Anonymous2006-05-30 13:33
>>5 XP corporate
It's called "Professional". Maybe your RWIN and MaxMTU are set for dial-up. Did your Dell come with a 56k modem?
>>8
ISA in a Dell? He'd be lucky to have any legacy beyond 3 PCI slots.
>>10
WTF?
Which manufacturer would be foolish to use AGP for audio?
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Anonymous2006-05-30 15:22
>>11
What's so bad about using AGP for sound? Any serious card needs the extra bandwidth... I'd rather have a PCI-Express card or whatever that new standard it though.
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Anonymous2006-05-30 16:09
>>12
Any board that still has AGP will likely only have one slot.
Anyone serious about sound will likely be serious about gaming/graphics.
To use their one and only AGP slot for audio instead of video is ludicrous.
AGP8x 17.066 Gbit/s (2.133 GB/s) is a little much for 96kHz sound. Even AGP1x 2133.33 Mbit/s (266.66 MB/s) seems overkill.
How many simultaneous audio channels do you need?!?
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Anonymous2006-05-30 17:06 (sage)
>>13
The more the merrier. Some hi-fi input is nice as well, a couple GiB/s should be enough.
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Anonymous2006-05-30 18:26
>>13
LOOK MAN, SOME OF US NEED THE 22,000 AUDIO TRACKS FOR OUR 22,000 SPEAKER SETUP, OK?
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Anonymous2006-05-30 19:25
>>11
>It's called "Professional"
"Corporate" refers to the version of XP Professional that lacks Windows product activation (made for corporations, schools, etc who don't want to be messed around activating hundreds of copies of XP).
>>17
And everyone else who stole'd it too. FCKGW FTW!
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J3ph42!dXldY3fJbY2006-05-31 12:42
>>1 >>4 >>5
Issue of bit vs. byte. Network transmission speeds are measured in bits per second, though compression makes it difficult to get exact sustained numbers the days of being able measure network speeds in bytes at a 1:1 ratio went out with 28.8 modems. Sounds like you bought a cheap, low bandwidth connection.