Slow-mo Sound!

spoon_key · Newbie Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

Hello I use a mic to speak to my Bro through MSN messenger, after a while the voice messages I send him go into slow-mo like a record on slow play! The only way I can resolve this is rebooting the PC! I close most things down in Task Manager but it still happens? I also had a message last week about the CPU overheating so I cleaned the heatsink & fan as it was covered in a blanket of dust!!! The problem with the slow sound was occuring before that though, but could it be due to the CPU getting to hot? I no longer get that CPU overheating message now. I wonder if this could also be linked to the problem I'm having burning DVD's? Any ideas why this happens would be great. Thanks Spoon

tw33k · Newbie Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 9

Hi Mate, Im not entirely sure. I had a similar problem with my sound expcept it broke up and sounded like it was underwater. It would only do this when I was running a heavy game and only after a while. A reboot was the only way to cure it. I managed to get it to stop doing it by upgrading the driver of my soundcard. Have you tried to do that yet?

spoon_key · Newbie Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

I have the latest drivers for the soundcard, its not exactly a great soundcard but it does that job. Its a software modem so maybe I could do with a reinstall or format of th PC (I hate doing that) I'm just worried that the problems I have had with the sound and with burning DVD's may be something to do with the CPU overheating? I dont know if it could have affected the CPU, so maybe someone with a tech head could tell me if the CPU may be faulty now? I dont get error messages or anything, and since I cleaned the heatsink I have had no more CPU overheating warnings? Again any help would be great. Thanks for the reply

Ulukai · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:45 am Post subject:

The sound card is actually a software modem? If so, a software modem is based on the CPU power you have under the hood, if the CPU slows (due to overheating), the modem slows, that type of deal. It might be a good idea to check if your overheating problem is really solved. Most processors whether it is audio, graphics or central processing units slow down to lower the temperature, its a protection. Some computers will give a warning first when slowing down, but some don't, because they need a bit of extra software to produce the warning. Other malfunctions like choppy sound or garbled sound is usuaully due to old drivers, or in certain configs with X-fi cards due to the amount of data thats pushed over the PCI (express) bus, the card will time-out for a milisecond which you would experience as a click, a chop or garbled sound.

spoon_key · Newbie Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

Thanks for the reply, I should have mentioned that its mobo onboard sound, so does this still have the same effects with the CPU overheating? I'm still trying to find the mobo manual to find out how to test the CPU temp! Thanks

Ulukai · Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:29 am Post subject:

It shouldn't have, unless the ambient temperature is very high, which would cause the sound chip to overheat. But that is very very rare, I have yet to hear about such a case.

spoon_key · Newbie Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

I found the mobo cd installed Asus PC Probe for my Asus K8V-X mobo. It detects temperatures in the PC, below are what it brings up. I also added other things that I dont know what are telling me? CPU temp 41c/105f MB temp 33c/91f CPU fan 4141 +12v 11.712 +5v 4.892 +3.3v 3.264 VCore 1.502 I dont know what temperature the CPU temp can go to and still be OK but I'm sure I will get a warning if its getting to hot, theres nothing about the sound temp though? One thing I did notice when using MSN to send voice messages was the bar that shows you are recording, it allows a certain amount of time to record, when the sound is Ok I get about 30 seconds record time but when the sound messes up and goes slow I only get about 15 seconds time to record, the bar goes along alot quicker? I hope you understand that! Also one last thing I forgot to mention, the sound on the speakers also goes wrong, it goes realy quiet so I have to max the speakers to hear the sound? Any more info on the above tempp and MSN thing would again be grateful Thanks

Ulukai · Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

When the sound messes up do other things go wrong too? Maybe the CPU overheating did more damage then first thought.

spoon_key · Newbie Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

No its just the sound, I did have a problem with burning DVD's but I'm nearly certain that was due to bad media. My DVD writer is power hungry, LG GSA-4167B but my power supply is capable of running it. Thanks for the reply

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