Ever since I build my PC, the sound has been bad. It's difficult for me to describe but I think the ticking/crackling of a gramophone record comes closest.
I am talking about the onboard sound(Azalia) here.
I cannot seem to resolve the issue by updating the drivers. I have tried the drivers supplied on CD, the drivers from gigabyte website and even the drivers from realtek.
After googling a bit I found out that a bad DPC latency can cause these problems. I checked it and indeed they don't look very good.
This is on Windows Vista SP1 x64:
![](http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8796/dpcvistafh5.jpg)
I installed Windows XP SP3 x86 just to check if it might have something to do with Vista:
![](http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4953/dpcxpdw7.jpg)
As the results are both bad I suppose it has nothing to do with a driver.
What could it be and how can I fix this? Listening to sound is unbearably annoying :(
Disabling Advanced DES seems to improve the latency a little, but it's still over 2000 most of the time.
Another (related?) issue I have is that the DES process "GSvr.exe" always crashes after some time. Mostly within the hour after a boot.
Here's my config:
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q9450
GPU: Sapphire HD 4870
MEM: 2x 2GB OCZ 1000 Mhz (running @ 800Mhz though)
Power: Corsair 620HX
I am talking about the onboard sound(Azalia) here.
I cannot seem to resolve the issue by updating the drivers. I have tried the drivers supplied on CD, the drivers from gigabyte website and even the drivers from realtek.
After googling a bit I found out that a bad DPC latency can cause these problems. I checked it and indeed they don't look very good.
This is on Windows Vista SP1 x64:
![](http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8796/dpcvistafh5.jpg)
I installed Windows XP SP3 x86 just to check if it might have something to do with Vista:
![](http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4953/dpcxpdw7.jpg)
As the results are both bad I suppose it has nothing to do with a driver.
What could it be and how can I fix this? Listening to sound is unbearably annoying :(
Disabling Advanced DES seems to improve the latency a little, but it's still over 2000 most of the time.
Another (related?) issue I have is that the DES process "GSvr.exe" always crashes after some time. Mostly within the hour after a boot.
Here's my config:
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q9450
GPU: Sapphire HD 4870
MEM: 2x 2GB OCZ 1000 Mhz (running @ 800Mhz though)
Power: Corsair 620HX
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