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Crackly sound with AC97 ALC850
Fetched: January 17th, 2009, 6:14am CET

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Author: yaks07
Forum: Windows 7
Date: 2009-01-17

Hey all,

I've had a few hiccups with windows 7 but I'm loving it!! There is one very annoying problem I'm having at the moment that I hope someone can help me with.

I'm using an on board Realtek AC'97 ALC sound card. It is on an nForce3 250 motherboard (and Realtek audio manager says the audio controller is nVidia (00EA) ) and was working fine under vista. I've tried all sorts of different drivers (vista drivers, XP drivers and windows update drivers) and all of them had a problem of crackling sound.

Daytodie tried to help me but all the AC'97 HD drivers he recommended didn't like being installed, and when forced installed didn't work (device manager said device was not working after I restarted my computer).

I really want to use Windows 7, it is by far the speediest OS i've used on this machine (including XP!!).

I would highly appreciate any help/ideas that would get the crackle out of my sound.

Thanks in advance.

PS I heard the x64 drivers seem to solve the crackle, but I'm not an x64 kinda guy. Would it be possible to install x64 drivers on a 32 bit install?

My comp:
AMD Sempron 3100+ (64bit capable)
1.5 GB Ram DDR2700
GeForce 6200 AGP 128MB
and of course Windows 7 Beta 32bit!