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Sound Cutting Out
Wibod
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So I've been having this problem for a little while, but only recently has it started to aggravate me.
I have a Razer AC1 sound card, it works fine and dandy for the most part, except it likes to cut my sound out completely. Now when I say completely I mean that I have to restart the entire computer to get it back. There's no real pattern to the sound going, it just goes, the computer can be on for 5 minutes or 3 days and the sound will just mysteriously turn off. I've been talking with Razer tech support for the last little while and haven't really gotten anywhere with them so I thought I'd come to you guys.
What I've tried:
-reinstalling the most recent drivers
-installing previous drivers (only 1 previous version available so that kinda sucks)
-switching to a different PCI slot
-checking if windows audio service had died (it hadn't and restarting it didn't do anything)
-disabling the mobos onboard sound device through the bios, uninstalling its drivers etc...
Now I've also been browsing the internet and can't really seem to find anything on this card having this problem, I'm hoping one of you guys could shed some light on what may be a potential problem. The only time anything seemed consistent previously was when using the 2.24 drivers watching a ustream or such and the sound would stop after a minute or so, but since fiddling with things this doesn't occur anymore.
Some info on the setup behind the spoiler.
Thanks for any help.
I have a Razer AC1 sound card, it works fine and dandy for the most part, except it likes to cut my sound out completely. Now when I say completely I mean that I have to restart the entire computer to get it back. There's no real pattern to the sound going, it just goes, the computer can be on for 5 minutes or 3 days and the sound will just mysteriously turn off. I've been talking with Razer tech support for the last little while and haven't really gotten anywhere with them so I thought I'd come to you guys.
What I've tried:
-reinstalling the most recent drivers
-installing previous drivers (only 1 previous version available so that kinda sucks)
-switching to a different PCI slot
-checking if windows audio service had died (it hadn't and restarting it didn't do anything)
-disabling the mobos onboard sound device through the bios, uninstalling its drivers etc...
Now I've also been browsing the internet and can't really seem to find anything on this card having this problem, I'm hoping one of you guys could shed some light on what may be a potential problem. The only time anything seemed consistent previously was when using the 2.24 drivers watching a ustream or such and the sound would stop after a minute or so, but since fiddling with things this doesn't occur anymore.
Some info on the setup behind the spoiler.
Windows: Windows VISTA, Version 6.0.6002, Service Pack 2, 64
Bit.
Internet Explorer: 7.0.6002.18005
Memory (RAM): 6143 MB
CPU Info: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
CPU Speed: 2804.8 MHz
Sound Card: Speakers (Razer Barracuda AC-1
Display Adapters: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series | ATI Radeon HD
4800 Series | RDPDD Chained DD | RDP Encoder Mirror Driver
Monitors: 2x; SyncMaster T220HD/T220MD(Digital) | ACER AL1916W
|
Screen Resolution: 1680 X 1050 - 32 bit
Network: Network Present
Network Adapters: D-Link DWA-552 XtremeN Desktop Adapter | Marvell
Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller | Hamachi Network
Ports: COM3 | COM4 | COM1 NOT Present
Hard Disks: C: 29.3GB |
74.5GB | E: 232.9GB | F: 195.3GB |
G: 241.1GB | H: 232.9GB
Hard Disks - Free: C: 3.9GB | 47.6GB | E: 129.7GB | F: 127.5GB |
G: 15.4GB | H: 2.1GB
USB Controllers: 6 host controllers.
Firewire (1394): 1 host controllers.
AC Power Status: OnLine
BIOS Info: AT/AT COMPATIBLE | 07/13/07 | NEC - 7000713
Motherboard: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2R32-MVP
Bit.
Internet Explorer: 7.0.6002.18005
Memory (RAM): 6143 MB
CPU Info: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
CPU Speed: 2804.8 MHz
Sound Card: Speakers (Razer Barracuda AC-1
Display Adapters: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series | ATI Radeon HD
4800 Series | RDPDD Chained DD | RDP Encoder Mirror Driver
Monitors: 2x; SyncMaster T220HD/T220MD(Digital) | ACER AL1916W
|
Screen Resolution: 1680 X 1050 - 32 bit
Network: Network Present
Network Adapters: D-Link DWA-552 XtremeN Desktop Adapter | Marvell
Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller | Hamachi Network
Ports: COM3 | COM4 | COM1 NOT Present
Hard Disks: C: 29.3GB |
74.5GB | E: 232.9GB | F: 195.3GB |G: 241.1GB | H: 232.9GB
Hard Disks - Free: C: 3.9GB |
47.6GB | E: 129.7GB | F: 127.5GB |G: 15.4GB | H: 2.1GB
USB Controllers: 6 host controllers.
Firewire (1394): 1 host controllers.
AC Power Status: OnLine
BIOS Info: AT/AT COMPATIBLE | 07/13/07 | NEC - 7000713
Motherboard: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2R32-MVP
Thanks for any help.
Wibod on
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literally, see if that works because it might be that the contact points or WHATEVER aren't so hot anymore
i only say this because it happened to me for a while and i just recently bought a usb dongle soundcard, which is pretty good