My sound card crackles or stutters with the GeForce. How can I fix it?
Try installing the latest drivers for your sound card.
Try installing the latest BIOS update for your motherboard. You can get help with finding out what BIOS you need and instructions as to how to flash it at Wim's BIOS page
Make sure that your sound card is not sharing an IRQ with another card. If it is, try moving your sound card to another PCI slot. You may also have to read the 'I have Windows 2000 and all of my devices share the same IRQ, causing problems with my GeForce. How can I fix it?' question.
If you have a Super Socket 7 motherboard, the registry fix in the 'I have instability problems with my Super Socket 7 motherboard. How can I fix them?' question may help.
Try disabling the 'Delayed Transaction' option in your BIOS.
Try enabling the 1MB memory hole between 15-16MB option in your BIOS.
If you have a 'PCI Latency Timing', 'CPU-to-PCI Bridge latency' or similar setting in your BIOS, try setting it to 0. If you do not have this option, and you have a VIA MVP3 chipset based motherboard, try putting the following program in your startup folder. It sets the CPU-to-PCI Bridge latency timer to 0. You can download the program here:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/parru/CPU-to-PCIBridgeLatencyTimerTo0clks.zip
If you have another chipset on your motherboard, you can use the shareware program TweakBIOS to change the PCI Latency on your soundcard. You can find out more information about this and download it at the following website:
http://www.miro.pair.com/tweakbios/
Try disabling DMA transfers on all of your drives. You can do this under the System control panel by opening each drive in turn and disabling DMA under the 'Settings' tab. This will reduce your drive's performance but may fix the problem.
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