First post, by sofakng
I've just setup a new Pentium 4 system (Dell Dimension 4600) running Windows 98 SE and a GeForce4 Ti 4200 (AGP) and a Diamond Multimedia MX300 Vortex 2.
However, when I play a game (ie. Half-Life) and there is any action (ie. GPU activity?) I hear terrible coil whine through the sound card.
Here is what I've tried:
1) Remove all PCI cards except for video card and sound card.
2) Move sound card to different PCI slots (I've tried them all)
3) Try Vortex drivers 2041 and 2048
4) Use the PCI Latency Tool to change the AGP card latency from 248 to 64. (I've also tried setting it to 0 and it worked but didn't crash so I wonder if the tool even works on this machine)
5) Made sure everything except Wave is muted in the Win98 Volume Control.
Unfortunately the BIOS is basically empty (it's a Dell) and has no settings at all regarding PCI latency or anything else.
Is there anything else I can try? 🙁