I think it may be a driver problem, I had a Aureal sound card (Diamond
Brand) before my SB live card, when I tested it with win98, it seems fine,
but my home machine is win2K, the card wouldn't work properly, it only plays
(any sound) about 30 seconds, after that the sound became "crappy". If I put
the card back to test machine (at work place) with win98, it works again. I
could only replace the Aureal card with a SB live.

Aureal chip doesn't have good driver support (especially for win2k) in my
opinion.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Wheeler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 6:22 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Sound card only plays sound for 1 second


> Hello,
> I have a Aureal AU8830 Vortex2 A3D sound card (PCI). I'm using Win98 first
edition. I have a Tyan Trinity 100AT motherboard with 128MB of RAM. I'm
using the latest reference drivers, and I tried the drivers included with
the card, but got the same problem. I also got this same problem using the
default drivers in Windows 2000 (Win98 doesn't have drivers for the AU8830
Vortex2), but fixed this problem by installing the drivers included with the
card.
>
> The problem:
> For every application I use, it only plays sound for about 1 second. In
Media Player it plays sound for about 1 second and pauses automatically. I
can unpause the sound and hear another portion of the wav file I am playing.
I can restart other applications and play sound for another 1 second, but
that's the only fix. The sounds such as the ones for menus, minimizing,
maximizing, etc. work, but if they are too long, I don't hear all of them.
>
> Question:
> How do I fix my sound card?
>

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