I bought a new sound card last week, and ever since I've had problems with my sound. Every few minutes my sound will stutter where it'll jump back and forth then go on normally, as if it's lagging. The sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster 5.1, and as far as I know of I have the latest drivers.
Goto your motherboard manufacturers website, find your board and you'll find a BIOS download link and instructions there.
I'm unsure now as to if my drivers are up-to-date or not, mainly because I can't find any downloads for my specific sound card, only the Live! version of it.
Well I can't find any drivers for it, its gone past it's support life. Sorry, I thought you just ommitted the "Live!" tag from the name. What are the rest of your systems specs?
I went through some checks the other day after I got back from a LAN at my mate's joint. Quite simple really...First I plugged in just the bare essentials (PSU, LCD, Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers) and tried to play some songs, and they played fine. Boy was I feeling confident! So I then plugged in my Wireless USB Adapter, which I got at the same time that I got my sound card and bam, the stuttering started occurring again. I'm planning on doing some more tests tomorrow, such as Sound Card w/ Cat5, Onboard w/ Cat5, Onboard w/ Wireless. Could be the router, which I also got at the same time I got my sound card.
Yes, I think so, I'll check now. EDIT: Can't find any on Belkin's website, so I guess there's no new ones?
I checked what PC Wizard 2006 lists my sound card as, and it's description was "SBLive! (OEM'd for Dell?)", so I went to the Sound Blaster website and found updated drivers for that. When I tried to install them, it said I had no sound blaster hardware installed. :|
This might sound strange, but if you install the original drivers, try disabling the windows Wireless Zero Connection Wizard (via services in Admin tools). It's a known issue with several programs that the WZC tries to reinitialize your connection every few seconds.
FoxComp Technology (http://foxcomp.com.au, I think) in Perth, Western Australia - I bought it from the store. I'll try this! Thanks. EDIT: Didn't work.
Not sure then I'm afraid, I was going to reccomend WZC next, as it can play havoc with belkin devices if its disabled.
I went to my mate's place for a little get together, and my sister borrowed the microphone while I was gone. I just realised before that there was no stuttering, and it's because the microphone was unplugged! To test my theory, I plugged my microphone back in. What do you know? ST-T-T-T-T-T-T-UTTER! Which is extremely weird, because I never plugged it in the first time I was testing. So this must mean that both the wireless adapter and the microphone were messing it up, and by disabling that Windows Zero Configuration, it fixed the adapter's problem, but the microphone was still messing up, hence why I thought it didn't work. Sound logical? I don't care, but it's not stuttering anymore!
