August 11, 2003

Sound card too fast?

Sometime ago, after installing and uninstalling a fancy audio card (that did not really work), I noticed that my computer was playing sound substantially faster - so much so that vocal recordings resembled the Chipmunks. It took me quite a while to sort out the problem but I finally found a very helpful thread in Google groups. If you have Intel AC'97 audio like I do, the solution, per David Hollway's post, is as follows:

  1. Update Intel chipset
  2. Update the audio driver by clicking Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager->Sound, video and game controllers->AC'97 Audio codec->Driver->Update->Windows Update
It will offer to install SoundMax - that'll work.

Posted by torque at August 11, 2003 5:03 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Your suggestions are awesome! Thanks. I had this similar problem and did not want to take the unit into the "shop"; I really like to handle these things myself (trouble, huh!?). Anyway, I followed the steps as suggested, and vola! Thanks again.

Martin

Posted by: Martin at November 26, 2004 9:29 AM

Hi1 I read your comments and I also had a similar problem.
Actually I acidentally unistalled the drivers that keptmy sound card neat.
Now I've landed up in the same problem of sound playing fast. Please let me know what tot do as I followed the two steps given above and the second one doesn't ask me for SOUNDMAX update.
thanks,
-BHushan

Posted by: Bhushan at February 10, 2005 10:34 AM

Good job!

Posted by: Markus at December 11, 2006 7:24 AM

Good job!

Posted by: Markus at December 12, 2006 5:21 PM
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