Hi. 🙂
I’m having a problem with my brand new motherboard and its audio. The audio is experiencing stuttering sounds on a 5 – 20 minute basis, with worse stuttering during games. I have re-installed my operating system 4 times now and even tried using the Standard PC installation, though the stuttering continued. I was using an external sound card to test that out and it was stuttering without any chipset drivers or audio drivers being installed. There was no difference between the sound card I tried and the on-board Realtek AC’97 with the stuttering (although to be fair, the sound card is an older pci card – Soundblaster Live!). I installed the latest drivers for the AC’97 as the ones that came on my motherboard disk sounded even worse with the stuttering. The newest drivers have improved it but only slightly. I’ve tried hardware acceleration changes for audio and I’m using the most current Direct X version. I put jumper pins in the correct positions to disable the front audio panel, hoping that by making audio exclusive to the rear panel that it would stop the stuttering. One theory is that the circuit is interrupted and causes stuttering if it’s running through all areas of the audio panel. Ditto to that one, didn’t change anything. Flashed the BIOS (successfully) with Foxconn’s latest update to try and improve on this problem. Also no better result. Physically my motherboard looks picture-perfect and the audio areas of the board look to be in perfect condition. Here are my specs:
Motherboard:
Foxconn 6100M2MA-RS2H
GeForce 6100 + nForce 410
Socket AM2
FSB 2000MT/s
VGA
PCIex16
DDR II 800/667/533
USB 2.0×8
6 Channel Audio – Realtek AC’97
10/100 LAN
RAID
Serial ATAIIx2
Looks a tiny bit different on Foxconn’s site as to the specs…. any techies might find this link useful if my listing here doesn’t seem right (I’m reading it off my motherboard box!)
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/Product/motherboard_detail.aspx?id=en-us0000163
CPU:
AMD Sempron 3400+ 1.8 GHz 256k Cache 1600Mhz
Socket AM2
RAM: 2 x A-Data 256 MB PC2 DDR2 (533 Mhz) Memory (512Mb RAM all up)
HDD: Seagate ST3808110AS 80GB 7200RPM SATA-II Hard Disk Drive 8MB Cache
CDD: Asus CD R/W drive
I have a 350W Power Supply
I am running Windows XP Home Service Pack 2 in a 32 bit environment. I have no other add-ons to my system that are causing conflicts with any of my hardware. This is my last ditch attempt to try and resolve this before I have to send the computer back for repair/replacement. If anyone else has had this problem or knows of an answer to it, please help, any suggestion would be welcome!?! Windows XP is not reporting any errors and device manager is showing no question marks anywhere.
Cheers.