I have a pc at home that has onboard sound and when I leave it on for a few days the sound quits working. If I reboot just before it shuts down the sound comes back on, and when it reboots the sound works fine. The motherboard is a DFI 865petag with a P4 3.06ghz processor. I have disabled everything not used I.E. parallel port, Midi port, etc that I am not using because I was thinking it was an IRQ problem. If I uninstall and reinstall the sound drivers it will work again. Any Ideas.

hello badersk, and welcome to pchf. when you say uninstall/reinstall drivers, it works again, does that mean it's fixed, or only temporary? If temporary, I'd go to the mobo mfg and get the latest and greatest drivers out there; there easily could have been an update since you got the machine and the new ones won't crash. That's where I'd start, then post back if that doesn't cut it.

[quote=valis]hello badersk, and welcome to pchf. when you say uninstall/reinstall drivers, it works again, does that mean it's fixed, or only temporary? "

Only a temporary fix, after a couple of days it quits again.


"I'd go to the mobo mfg and get the latest and greatest drivers out there;"

I have done that. Interesting enough Microsoft update says there is a updated driver but if you load it, it quits completely until you roll back the driver.

don't use ms update.....go directly to the motherboard manufacturer page......

The Driver that is on there now is the manufacturers driver the latest one. I think it has something to do with how Windows XP handles IRQs and it is dropping off the sound. I wonder if I could change a setting in the BIOS that would stop it?

I dunno. You can check, but you can also check by going to start > run > sysdm.cpl > hardware tab > device manager > sound devices and monkeying around in there. I wouldn't reco changing ANYTHING, though, as windows generally does a pretty good job handling irq problems. You can also go to start > run > eventvwr.msc and check for any errors that are sound card related. If you find any, double click on them, then click the two pieces of paper to copy them to your clipboard, then come back here and paste the results....that would let us know if it's a hardware issue or a software issue.

fwiw, I would still d/l and install the driver from the site. It's possible that your driver on your machine got corrupted.

thanks,

v