Posted by CWB on 04/22/06 20:26

Best guess is that between adding that new card, disabling AC97,
removing card, enable AC97........ The AC97 is probably on a
different IRQ from what it was originally. Probably on its own this
tme and not sharing with another device.

Charlie
http://www.soundclick.com/pro/view/01/default.cfm?bandID=475287&content=music

>I tried the solution of getting a good sound card, and installed my ESS
>Maestro in the system. With this installed and the mic plugged into it
>and the real ac97 disabled, I was not able to get ANYTHING recorded on
>the mike input. I fiddled with every possible setting from every piece
>of software that controls sound. However, the mic did work just barely.
>Then I tried having windows set the ess sound card for voice and audio
>recording, and all the playback to the ac97 built in audio. That didn't
>work either. From what i seem to recall, I dont think I was even able
>to get the mic via the sound card to work when ac97 was disabled. At
>some point after all these changes with the hardware and software, when
>i removed the ess card and returned the system to ac97, the problem
>with the timing of the vocals and audio (which wasn't always speeded
>up), was gone. So was the clicking noise in the background. Thing is, I
>have no idea what I did, if anything, to solve it!

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