Re: sound anomaly

Gazwad wrote:
> Minnie Scule <>, the mature-panhandler and supple team
> player who likes decadent private arm exercise with manta rays, and
> whose partner is a fallen woman with a macabre hatchet wound, wrote in
> <Giefj.22310$>:
>>>> Any vista-savvy bods there can help me please?
>>>>
>>>> Spec:
>>>> Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
>>>> Vista Ultimate (build 6000)
>>>> AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
>>>> ASUS M2N32-SLI deluxe
>>>> 2x MSI NX8600GT (nvidia)
>>>> 2x Corsair1GB DDR 2800MHz
>>>>
>>>> Problem is this...
>>>>
>>>> When I watch youtube videos and maximise them to full screen, there is
>>>> a
>>>> very irritating interference on the sound in standard size.
>>>>
>>>> However I have watched several DVDs using Windows Media Centre
>> fullscreen
>>>> and the interference is not there, when I try and watch a dvd using
>> WMP11
>>>> it
>>>> tends to crash within several minutes, the interference is there during
>>>> all
>>>> WMP DVD viewing and WMC windowed viewing.
>>>>
>>>> When notifications of people joining MSN etc pop up on the screen, this
>>>> also
>>>> causes the interference, as do the notifications of track change on
>>>> Winamp.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea whether this could be a driver problem, a Bloody Vista problem
>> or
>>>> could there be a hardware problem, what with there being two video
>>>> cards
>>>> an
>>>> not a lot of space? Or some other conflict?
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>> Son of Mad Dan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's AMD shyte for ya.
>>> Throw a couple of grand at a proper computer and reload Vista.
>>>
>>>
>> thank you for that illuminating and thoughful response.
>>
>> I will of course run out tomorrow and buy some intel crap at greater
>> expense
>> and spend lots of precious time setting everything up again because you
>> are
>> prejudiced against AMD.
>>
>>
>>
>> Son of Mad Dan
>>
>>
>
>
> I'm not prejudiced against AMD, I own machines that use AMD processors.
> Comparing the types of issues people have with AMD with the types of issues
> Intel users have gives one a pretty good idea of what to use for which
> purposes.
> Experience with previous AMD equipment doing exactly what you describe plus
> the time, expense and effort to put things right means I'd prefer not to use
> an AMD based system for the purposes you can't use yours for.
>
>

The sound card in this machine has just come out of another AMD machine
where it worked without fault.
I'm almost certain that this is a fault concerning none other than
Microsoft.
Vista. *grumbles*

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ASUS M2N32-SLI deluxe
AMD AM2 Athlon 64 X2 6000+
2GB Corsair DDR2 800mhz
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500gb
MSI nVidia (NX)8600GT (2x in SLI)
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy (NOT WORKING)

'Been there, done that, got the error message.'