NVidia and Sound Card ANNOYANCE boot up...

[chako]

Is there any fix for the conflict of an NVidia card and the beginning sounds of Windows booting up besides turning the sounds off?

What I mean is how many of you have an Nvidia card, and when your PC boots, your screen flickers while the Nvidia driver loads, in the mean while your sound is playing the windows start up wav file and practically sounds like a choking chicken during bootup. Not a very good senerio if you are trying to impress your friends... "duh...sorry man...my Nvidia card freaks out my sound card when my PC boots".....


Anyone have an ideas?

[Incognitotj]

MB: Shuttle AK31a
CPU: AMD 1800+
Mem: 512 DDR 2100 (used to be 768)
Vid: Gigabyte GF4 mx420
OS: Win XP Home

LOL!!! I have the same problem. I was also crashing a lot when playing UT2003. At first I thought it was a corrupt windows installation. Backed up everything and spent hours reinstalling, updating drivers, and putting everything they way I wanted it.

Funny, it still did it...

Next I thought it might be a memory issue. I was using a 512 mb stick in mem(1), and two 128's in mem(2) and (3). I removed the two 128's, and the UT crashes went away. Either a bad stick or a latency problem, not sure yet...

But the chicken sound still plagued me... (love that analogy)

Finally figured it out - I believe that the sequence of driver's / programs used by nvidia starts at the end of the bootup. I have witnessed my cpu is pegged at 100% as the expert tool is loading. Yeah, this is normal to be at 100% during boot up, but it lasts a lot longer than other machines I have checked. I first thought of this when I started up my comp and as I was hitting the xp log in screen I got a phone call. After 15 minutes, I logged in and the sound was perfect. Tried it several more times and no problem. It is only when I immediately enter my password that I get that stuttering. I also realize now that it didn't start happening until after I installed new drivers for the video card. You might be able to fix this by altering the startup programs' order, but I just give my system a chance to catch it's breath now.

Incog

do you have the latest nforce sound drivers?


http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

[chako]

Yup sure do. It's been doing this since drive version 34.x through driver now 45.x.....When the Nvidia driver loads, it make the startup sound shutter.... always...

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_2.45

im talking about those, not the video card updates

[chako]

I don't have an nForce Sound Card.

I've built many computers, all range with onboard MSI sound card to an Audigy2 sound card. NVidia drivers conflict or "over take" the system and choke the sound always that I've notice. The only common link is I've used all MSI motherboard and AMD chips so far. Wait...I take that back. I just built a P4 with an MSI 875 chip set and an 5200 FX card, using the MSI on board sound card and it chokes too.

ohhhh im sorry i mis read i thought you said you had the nforce chipset. What sound card are you using?

[ArcticFox]

Uh, nVidia doesn't make sound cards. You have to be talking about the nForce/nForce2 for that. I just switched from that (the stuff on my A7N8X-DX) to my Audigy that was gathering dust, as I play Counter-Strike a lot and it would get hideously distorted after awhile of playing.

weird i have no problems with cs and my nforce soundcard. i had problems with the enter the matrix and the static noise but the new patch fixed that

[chako]

Guy/Gals...

I am not having any other issues except when the computer boots, and I have a "start up windows" sound enable. The default Windows Start sound, and I have a NVidia video card installed.

My questions are:

If you have an NVidia card, when your PC boots the first time, does your screen flicker once or twice?

During that screen flicker, the windows startup sound is trying to play, so the sound trying to play cuts in and out...doesn't matter if I am using the onboard MSI sound card or a $100 Audigy2 sound card. Any time I install a nVidia card with an MSI motherboard, with any sound card...I get the shutter startup sound while the nividia card is loading or what ever the heck it is trying to do when the screen flickers during a normal boot.

After this, games, internet, whatever...I don't have an lag, static, problems or nothing..flawless....