Re: At Wits' End
- From: "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:24:15 -0400
Andy wrote:
> Hello, Tod,
>
> "tod" <no_spam_i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OVkSe.7149$z2.6482@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Here is the webpage with drivers from Foxconn for your motherboard.
>>
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/productsDownload_motherboard2.cfm?pMotherboard=K7S741MG-6L
>>
>> Here is the SIS webpage with even newer drivers for your motherboard.
>> http://www.sis.com/download/
>>
>> You might consider leaving out the Sound blaster and using built-in
>> sound. Sound Blasters are considered Bus Hogs
>> Which model Sound Blaster are you using?
>
> It's a Realtek AC'97 board. The guy who sold me the computer said it would
> provide better sound than the built-in sound.
Probably has the same chip as your motherboard.
> I'm getting the impression
> that he screwed me in more ways than one. The poblem I have with
> discarding the Realtek AC'97 is that it has 4 jacks, 2 for the speakers, 1
> for the earphone and 1 for the microphone. The mother board has only 3
> jacks: green, red and blue. So I'm short one jack there.
There's also a front audio connector on the motherboard--not sure what it
does when the rears are set for surround but there is a microphone in and
left and right headphone jacks.
You might also want to consider a USB microphone--onboard sound is usually
noisy--this isn't too big an issue on playback unless you're really picky,
but on recording it can make a major difference, and the USB mike by
digitizing the sound externally works around that. Makes a remarkable
difference on voice recognition. Plantronics and Andrea both have some
nice noise-cancelling models, and Andrea also has a dongle that lets you
hook just about any microphone to a USB port.
>> Also go into the bios and disable things you will not use, like parallel
>> and serial ports.
>> It will free up some IRQs, which might help the Sound Blaster work
>> better.
>>
>> To get into the bios, need to hit "Delete" key
>> in the first few seconds when the computer is first turned on (boot up).
>>
>>
>> "Andrew Manninger" <kanadaiy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:aQWRe.252885$on1.230512@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> To All Cognoscenti, Greeting!
>>>
>>> I've already posted here the story of my tribulations caused by heat
>>> damage to my HDDs. The damaged drives have at last been replaced,
>>> including the GigaByte motherboard that had a bad IDE controller. Now
>>> I'm struggling with the task of rebuilding my operating system (Windows
>>> XP Prof.) and all application programs, and therein lies the problem.
>>> The new motherboard is a K7S741MG that came with a WinFast Utility CD,
>>> Version 1.0. According to the instructions that came with the
>>> motherboard, this CD contains the drivers needed for this mother board.
>>> Trouble is, when I install these drivers I lose the sound (Creative
>>> SoundBlaster). If I don't install WinFast, the sound is soon last
>>> anyway, and I have trouble installing other components of the system.
>>>
>>> Any help to overcome these problems would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
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