Sombrero wrote on 2025-06-25, 06:16:

Hopefully they made the slim less annoying to open.

If anything, they made it even more annoying. 😁

I watched a few Xbox 360 S disassembly/cleaning videos on YouTube, and getting to those tabs can be tricky. And since plastic becomes brittle with age, I get the feeling that even a minor slip up would cause them to break.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2022-05-23, 09:57:

• MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758)

Do you have any noise on PCI ports?
I have same mobo (MSI Z77A-G43) and my Audigy 2ZS card make the background noise like cheap AC'97 codec.
I was afraid A2ZS was broken, but when I checked it on another computer (P4/i865PE) the noise was gone.

EDIT:
I tried to move A2ZS card to another PCI port, it didn't help.
PS: All analog/digital inputs in the mixer were muted.

ott wrote on 2025-06-25, 07:22:

Do you have any noise on PCI ports?
I have same mobo (MSI Z77A-G43) and my Audigy 2ZS card make the background noise like cheap AC'97 codec.

I don't currently have any PCI sound cards in this system, as I have no use case for them.

However, about 5-6 years ago, when I was just getting back into retro PC hardware, I did briefly put a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (SB0100) in this rig. From what I recall, it worked fine, and I don't think there was any excessive noise. In case it matters, my motherboard revision is 1.3.

I have the exact same motherboard and used PCI X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro with it for a while with zero issues. I may have also had PCI X-Fi XtremeMusic in there for a moment, not sure, but if I did it also worked fine.

Sombrero wrote on 2025-06-25, 08:25:

I have the exact same motherboard and used PCI X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro with it for a while with zero issues. I may have also had PCI X-Fi XtremeMusic in there for a moment, not sure, but if I did it also worked fine.

I have first revision Audigy 2ZS with golden jacks, maybe it is too sensitive?
Anyway, I got such noises on the ASRock Z77 Pro3 mobo. Then I tried A2ZS on the Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3-A mobo and didn't detect any noise.
So I think the noise issue related to ASMedia PCIe-PCI bridge, which is used on MSI Z77A-G43 and ASRock Z77 Pro3 mobos.
GA-B85-HD3-A has another iTE PCIe-PCI bridge.