First post, by audiocrush
Hi,
I have a strange issue with my Sound Blaster cards.
Both cards worked fine in a 486 system running DOS 6.22 and also the Blue Lightning running Windows 3.11 but in my AMD K7 running Windows 98 SE I get a random crackle/pop/stutter noise every few seconds. Between these noises the playback is clean as a whistle.
Also there is no noise at all when using the midi synth.
I know the hardware is quite a bit newer than those soundcards, but I was hoping that this should work fine anyways?
I used the drivers from the sbw9xup.exe package of philscomputerlab.com.
But also this happens with the drivers that come with windows 98, so maybe it is not a driver issue?
I thought maybe the soundblasters are bus speed sensistive so I played around a bit with the ISA bus clock, but that also didn't change anything.
Any ideas on that?
Cheers
audiocrush
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