SIS 661FX/964L works sort of

[starobrno1]

I´m looking for a soloution regarding sound pops and distortion while playing multiple audiotracks. I´ve been able to make this old {censored} mobo run pretty ok but this is the last problem I can´t get pass. It showed all I had to do was delete an apple custom kext and the OS sees the PATA harddrive as SATA so these days data transfer is pretty ok. But and this is it when I playback a few tracks in my musicsoftware it runs pretty ok but I get this popping and distortion in the sound.

 

When I start up the Activity controll app I see spikes in the harddrive activity so I guess it´s still the sis chipset that´s playing tricks on me.

 

It has nothing to do with my software since I´ve tried two seperate really good ones documented to work and does too on my other rigs. Also the videocard works ok QE and all.

 

Abit SG-72 mobo

geforce fx 5500 *8 agp 512 mb videocard

2 gig ddr 400 memory

150 gig 7200 rpm harddrive

P4 3 Ghz cpu

[starobrno1]

It´s weird cause it seems I actually can play a DVD movie no problems at all, sounds ok so is the video. I´ve read it´s not possible to use the second IDE port with this chipset but it works got two harddrives and one DVD drive connected no problems at all. Hmm what the heck´s going on here? Yes I know it´s an old {censored} mobo but still in moast cases it seems it can work ok but playing multiple wavs seems to be no go?

 

Got the latest bios update and all, running kalys leo 10.5.1 but I doubt uppgrading would do any good on an old steamengine mobo like this.

[PJ the iPod Sensei]

Specs are on par with a G5 iMac I got one of these boards off a friend I was looking to make into a media server/ possible Hackintosh box.

 

I'm not looking for speed. I just want to be able to use VLC player on my 37" 1080p Television. I have a GeForce 5500 256MB AGP Video card for it, and 1GB Ram.....

 

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