<div id="RTEContent">Hi, John<br> What brand of video card was it? I wonder if it has a good rating, cause I was interested in getting a card with bigger memory for my P4. But the cost makes me wonder if its worth the trouble to go through upgrading.<br> <br> Thanks, Ron:)<br><br><b><i>JJ Neff <jjneff@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I have spent a few days hating that my video card died more than I needed to -<br>does that mean I'm happy my 100s of dollars card took a header - NO but I am<br>less upset about what I have in the meantime.<br><br>I was chatting with Pete the other day and asked about how sound and video<br>might be conflicting for an IRQ - but I could not find good evidence to support<br>this - I replaced an Nvidia 256M card with an Nvidia 256 M card. Both same<br>AGP type same slot etc.<br><br>When I rebooted with the borrowed video card I had no s
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assumed that<br>the IRQ must have moved or something to that effect and I reran alsaconf and<br>everything seemed OK. I noticed that a lot of apps - movies, sound, games,<br>sounded horrible lots of static and noise - then my spouse pointed out that<br>Skype would dial then screech like it was connecting to a Fax machine.<br><br>Long story short I turned down the volume and microphone settings via alsamixer<br>until I had a good range of volume with the manual speaker control and the<br>noise and screeching went away. This may seem like an easy thing to most of<br>you but if one person avoids wasted time trying to figure out what is wrong<br>with their card when all it is is a software settings issue then my e-mail met<br>its intended purpose.<br><br>I had chosen somewhere around 90 because it seemed nice and high while leaving<br>a small bit of room at the top if I needed to raise it more but it was actually<br>pushing too much noise and picking up too much causing the lo
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Around 75<br>was better.<br><br>Also skype has a great test tool for sound and microphone. Just put into the<br>dial pad 'echo123' and an answering machine like voice will tell you you have<br>10 seconds to talk then beep - talk until the next beep and it will be played<br>back. Fantastic for testing audio levels - is capture needed on the mic etc<br>etc.<br><br>JJN<br><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com <br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br>nflug@nflug.org<br>http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug<br></blockquote><br></div><p>
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