underclocking fixed my music
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:32 am
I accidentally found a solution to a very irritating problem i've had with the sound from this computer... and then i don't mean noise.
I like using the computer for playing music - however, since some time, whenever anything was read or written to my sata harddrive, there would be noise instead of music coming out of the speakers. Think a bag of potato chips in the hands of too many kids.
I tried undervolting my cpu today, as a cooler cpu cannot be wrong. To my big surprise i noted the music was just perfect all the time! I guess the cpu got too much voltage which must habe leaked onto the motherboard (an Abit KD7-S) and further onto my soundcard (a Soundblaster Ensoniq PCI) or something.. how else could you explain it?
And yeah, btw, i have a amd barton 2500+ which went from 1.650V to 1.350V and Prime95 have been running perfectly for 2 hours. Earlier the cpu idled at 39-41°C, now it's at 45â
I like using the computer for playing music - however, since some time, whenever anything was read or written to my sata harddrive, there would be noise instead of music coming out of the speakers. Think a bag of potato chips in the hands of too many kids.
I tried undervolting my cpu today, as a cooler cpu cannot be wrong. To my big surprise i noted the music was just perfect all the time! I guess the cpu got too much voltage which must habe leaked onto the motherboard (an Abit KD7-S) and further onto my soundcard (a Soundblaster Ensoniq PCI) or something.. how else could you explain it?
And yeah, btw, i have a amd barton 2500+ which went from 1.650V to 1.350V and Prime95 have been running perfectly for 2 hours. Earlier the cpu idled at 39-41°C, now it's at 45â