Problem with USB Skype device

LadFromWales

LadFromWales

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Hi all!

I've had this problem for a while, but have never got round to sorting it out...I have a VoIP Voice Skype uConnect, which allows one to use a standard landline phone to interface with Skype.

On my old system, NF7-S, 2500+ etc, it worked totally fine, but since upgrading to nF4 and Opteron, the sound output and input has sounded awful. The voice of the person I'm speaking to sounds all garbled and metallic, and I apparently sound the same. Sometimes it works fine after a reboot, and continues to work fine for that windows session, but as soon as I reboot again, it goes back to being metallic sounding.

Windows installs drivers for the sound component as standard. The sound is garbled at this point, before even installing the drivers which allow control of the device. I have installed both the AMD driver and Dual-Core Optimizer, and have also tried the Microsoft drivers (and all three at once, etc), none of which cure the problem.

I have no issues with my PCI soundcard...don't have any other USB sound devices to try either :(

I've no idea whats causing the issues, I'm at the end of my rope :p

Anyone have any ideas to get it working correctly again?

Cheers all :D
 
Are you connecting the soundcard directly to your pc? or through a hub?

If the device is USB2.0 then make sure its in a USB2.0 port.

Do you have any other applications using the internet at the same time as skype when you are having problems (if you dont know of any, check your system for spyware/adware/viruses etc).

All these relate to bandwidth issues. Let us know how you get on mate! :)
 
Directly to my PC, don't have enough USB devices to need a hub! (yet)

All the ports on my board (DFI LP nF4) are USB 2.0

I don't need to be using Skype for the issue to occur. The issue was there with a clean installation of windows. I set the USB sound card as default, and all system sounds were garbled. I'm too paranoid/too much of a geek to end up with spyware etc on my PC :p I don't install any application without checking up on it first.

LOL, I started typing this post last night, and forgot about it, hehe...any help though would be much appreciated :)
 
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