Clicking hell with winXP and k7s5a motherboard :(

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sun Feb 17, 2002 12:11 pm

I can not even hear a music CD thru mediaplayer/winamp without clicks.

I realy need help on this one. For those of you using the k7s5a motherboard with succes - which slot have you installed your Pulsar in?

Immanuel

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sun Feb 17, 2002 2:55 pm

Huh?

BIOS update did it. I went from the september BIOS to teh January BIOS, and now I can use mediaplayer without clicks, I can run a 3DMark2000 Demo without clicks, and I do not get the PCI message before my 4rth masteverb (used to be at my second). This is actually a little bit better than 98micro before the BIOS update. I guess, I will stick to XP for a little longer and test it out with some "real" music.

Immanuel

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 9:31 am

Bah, I still get those crackels sometimes when listening to a CD.

Please those of you running a system with this MB post some of your setings, what OS do you run? What BIOS generation do you use? Anything, that can make my system work

Immanuel

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 10:41 am

Check our IRQs. Disable onboard stuff you're not using inside your BIOS.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 10:48 am

http://www.808.dk/pics/k7s5a_resource.gif

Pulsar is in the second lowest slot. But I have disabled USB in the BIOS (before installing winXP).

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subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 10:49 am

Put Pulsar in PCI2, leave PCI5 empty. Then the IRQ won't be the problem, so onto the next step, which is installing <a href=http://www.sis.com/support/driver/index.htm>drivers</a> for your motherboard.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 11:12 am

Durring my work finding out, wich drivers to install, I passed by the ocworkbench forum and in their k7s5a FAQ I found this -> http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/ul ... 4&t=002018. Step five explains, that you need to run siside.exe to enable DMA.

Thanks for the inspiration so far. I will now move my Pulsar1 from slot 4 to 5 (I hope XP can manage that without forcing me to uninstall Pulsar and reinstall)

Immanuel

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 12:05 pm

Seems fine so far. Time to install some logic

Immanuel