Infuriating sound problem on Asus P5K Premium

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I have just bought a new pc, about a month ago and have been having an issue with the sound. Specs

Quad Q9300 (455fsbx7.5), 4gb Corsair Dominator PC2-8500 (2x2gb), Asus P5K Premium (Black Pearl Ed) mobo (onboard sound). Win XP.

So the sound basically pops and crackles on Itunes and seems to stutter on games like medievil 2. I have all the drivers up to date. If I put the pc back to normal specs then the sound problem disappears. The weird thing is if I leave the computer overclocked and turn it off and leave for a couple of hours and turn it back on, the sound can be fine. I won't have changed anything (still overclocked), and it works fine. Then occasionally the issue returns. Tried re-installing the sound drivers with no effects.

Other things I should mention, on SP3 and the software is SoundMax. I have also tried disabling digital output on the soundmax software and have also changed the JMicron controller to IDE instead of SCSI, all to no effect.

Very infuriating. I have tried googling, tried overclocking forums, asus forum all with no luck does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks
 
just been mucking around some more, music actually plays on windows media player, where the same song (from the same source) stutters on itunes, why the hell is that?

Its not just itunes either, medievil 2 - total war suffers with the stuttering. Any more opinions?

Cob, hi mate, I tried that previously and it didnt make any difference, I took it up to 111 from memory.
 
Cob said:
You could try upping the PCI-E Frequency a little.
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Might be me being dumb, but why would this help?

If you're running SP3 then I know the Beta' and RC's didn't include drivers for the HD Audio bus, did they put this in the final release? (I can't imagine they wouldn't).
 
just been mucking around some more, music actually plays on windows media player, where the same song (from the same source) stutters on itunes, why the hell is that?

Its not just itunes either, medievil 2 - total war suffers with the stuttering. Any more opinions?
 
Weird thing is now my itunes is working fine, no popping at all. Yet in an hour or so, the popping could be back. Just to really confuse things, windows media player is fine now and would be fine the whole time even when itnues developes the problems. When the popping starts, I can turn the machine off overnight and at the wall to cure the issue, but it can come back at the most in opportune times.

Damn weird.
 
Any more ideas? Would a stand alone card solve this? I am a bit reticent to do that until having the problem narrowed down.
 
Well I have had quite a few Asus boards with the Soundmax Audio, even going back to the P4C800 and have had the same problem intermittently with most of them, never really quite figured out what causes it. Sometimes I've just reinstalled windows and its been ok, good luck, you'll need it.
 
Thanks G_Whizz, at least i am not going mental anyway. So you actually bought a second board and it also had the same problem? Have you developed a way to clear it, other than turning off the pc for a few hours? Did you ever get a standalone card and if so, did the problem dissapear?

Cheers
 
First try a different version of the drivers, get the latest ones from soundmax rather than Asus, you can find the Soundmax website on google.
 
Still got the problem. Just downloaded crysis, playing music all fine. Restarted machine and bang, sound sputtering and popping again. Seems to be an issue when I restart. I am looking around for non asus sound max drivers now.
 
I have tried different drivers, but I am still sure the drivers are from asus, can't really find any non-asus drivers. I have even tried to get windows high def audio drivers to work but no luck yet as the device won't initialise.

Anyway, despite having this issue accross a number of forums I am not really getting any further forward. Some people seem to think that it is an overclock issue, which it could be, but the board is actually rock solid at 455x7.5 and the sound issue (crackling and popping) is only intermitant.

I think I might bite the bullet and get a standalone card, do you think that might solve the problem?

I only have a 2.1 speakers system, so I doubt I need to spend hundreds, can anyone recommend me a decent card? I have been looking around but not exactly sure what to buy as I have always had onboard sound.

Cheers
 
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