Got a question/New mobo, buzzing with sound system

[southernlady]

Background: In order to build computers per M$ regs, we have to have a tech computer as part of the process so we bought a new mobo and cpu, etc to build it. Well, we decided to upgrade MY mobo and use the one I had as the tech computer. So I ended up with this mobo: ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 and an AMD 3200+ processor. We got it up and running after some issues with the memory we bought, it was labeled 400 but was actually 333 and incompatible with the 400 I already had! So after swapping out the 400 in the computer we are building the daughter who is running a single stick on a AMD 2600 board, we got everything settled in.

My problem now is the sound system has a very slight irritating buzz to it. Just loud enough I finally unplugged the speaker system altogether. I was using an Inspire 2.1 2500 by Creative and the sound is onboard supplied by ULi/ALi M5455 AC'97 Audio Controller.

Any ideas as to make the buzzing go away (and yes, I had the plug in the right hole, LOL). Liz

[Mobo]

This is the 64 bit driver
http://www.asrock.com/Drivers/ALi_Ch...XP64(5850).zip

It may be using the 32 bit version by default so try installing it and see if that cures the issue.

[southernlady]

I've got the 64 bit version on the cd. I thought since my system was using the 32 bit version of windows, that's what I needed but I need the 64 bit version? Liz

[Mobo]

Thats coreect Liz. I figured you would use the 64 bit version. Have you tried the speaker set on another system to rule out if its the issue ?

[southernlady]

Mobo, it worked fine with the other motherboard. So I will try uninstalling the current drivers and then reinstalling the 64 bit set and see what happens. And will report back and let you know. Liz

[Mobo]

Just check the version and date of the current driver first liz.

[southernlady]

Mobo, the driver I installed from our disk was the same one you had here. We had downloaded it just two days ago.

It didn't work,the buzzing is still there. I suspect I need a sound card for this beast. LOL. Anyway, that will just have to wait and if the buzzing gets too annoying, I'll turn OFF the sound. Liz

[southernlady]

Update to this: turns out it was a set of jumpers we hadn't set correctly. Liz

[Mobo]

Ok Liz. I'll cloe this thread as a result.