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Man, my audio and shit be gettin' FUNKY.
Sorenson
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Stuff has been gettin' rather weird on my new computer as of the last couple of days. Until about wednesday or so things were just peachy, but now I'm hittin' some pretty annoying shit, and a lot of it seems to be related to audio.
First on late wednesday/early thursday I started noticing a good deal of popping and static in my audio, and stuff was skipping and jumping bit by bit - swapping out the headsets didn't do a thing, but after doing a full shutdown and reboot things were relatively back to normal. Just to be on the safe side I ordered a new set of headphones, since my current pair've been abused pretty badly over the years what with cord stepping and pulling them off the table and al that shit.
Then just about an hour ago, programs that made use of audio started going on the fritz - X3 Terran Conflict would hang after launching, when it did get to the menu it'd be really slow and freeze for a bit after inputting a command (accompanied by a sound effect, of course) and Winamp locked up whenever I tried to play a file. IE itself didn't crash, but anything that did produce audio was silent (Youtube, for example) - like the incident before, doing a full shutdown and reboot took care of things.
I'm not particularly picky about audio, so I'm using the onboard stuff from my motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3. Googling around for that model and various audio distress terms didnt turn up anything, though - in fact, the only thing that even seems to come close is a post in an old Windows 7 thread in which someone describes something like case 1, but I've not heard anything like the second episode. And the only real major change I made to my PC right before all this started was getting rid of AVG Free for MSE instead as someone reccomended in the essential windows 7 programs thread from a few days ago.
Is this just some Windows 7 growing pains? Or is there something a bit more sinister or problematic at work?
First on late wednesday/early thursday I started noticing a good deal of popping and static in my audio, and stuff was skipping and jumping bit by bit - swapping out the headsets didn't do a thing, but after doing a full shutdown and reboot things were relatively back to normal. Just to be on the safe side I ordered a new set of headphones, since my current pair've been abused pretty badly over the years what with cord stepping and pulling them off the table and al that shit.
Then just about an hour ago, programs that made use of audio started going on the fritz - X3 Terran Conflict would hang after launching, when it did get to the menu it'd be really slow and freeze for a bit after inputting a command (accompanied by a sound effect, of course) and Winamp locked up whenever I tried to play a file. IE itself didn't crash, but anything that did produce audio was silent (Youtube, for example) - like the incident before, doing a full shutdown and reboot took care of things.
I'm not particularly picky about audio, so I'm using the onboard stuff from my motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3. Googling around for that model and various audio distress terms didnt turn up anything, though - in fact, the only thing that even seems to come close is a post in an old Windows 7 thread in which someone describes something like case 1, but I've not heard anything like the second episode. And the only real major change I made to my PC right before all this started was getting rid of AVG Free for MSE instead as someone reccomended in the essential windows 7 programs thread from a few days ago.
Is this just some Windows 7 growing pains? Or is there something a bit more sinister or problematic at work?
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That said, with the full shutdown/reboot fixing it, it sounds to me like a driver memory leak, or just plain shitty drivers. Have you tried finding the latest driver package for that card? I assuming it's a built in AC97 audio deal.
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And now this is weird. Oblivion's sound just crapped out and windows sounds like the clicks and shit are mute, but Youtube is fine, at least the video of Holy Diver I was listening to. Time for another reset, it seems.
EDIT: Heeeeeyyyyy. Come to think of it, I think I had Youtube and/or Winamp running in the background as well the last two times that this happened. I wonder of this is some kind of an audio overload situation? The motherboard or the OS is trying to handle output for windows, general Internet Explorer and web page stuff (fucking noisy ads and scripts and shit!) Youtube or Winamp (both are open, but only one is playing) plus a game, so trying to keep track of all this shit just gives the PC temporary brain damage regarding audio, so to say.
On the other hand, as I think about it when the audio crapping out completily this time and last it was apparently right after I'd launched or gotten out of a game, so maybe it's an issue of how the game is being flushed out of memory and the ending of the processes going with it - at one of these points it stumbles and fumbles the job, and then all shit breaks loose until the power's cut. I'll have to do some testing.
EDIT: Well holy shit, while I was making the above edit the sound apparently came back, windows and IE and youtube and winamp and Oblivion. This stuff's certainely living up to the thread title.
A thousand times this. I've know someone who bought a sound card because their onboard started dieing, but it turned out to be old, crappy drivers
Disabling utorrent's auto-updater might help (at least, it worked for me). This handy little program might help pinpoint the cause.