Please help, static noise capture AIW 128 pro ECS K7S5a

[racecar]

Hey Guys,

This forum is wonderful, what a resource.

I have a AIW 128 Pro with a ECS K7S5A motherboard (onboard sound card). When I play tv the audio comes in perfect but when I record it sounds staticy and like someone turned up the recording audio way too high. It's just a bunch of static, I can hear words but it sounds like the sound is overloaded.

I have tried lowering the audio on recording and such but to no avail. My question is that do you think it is the sound card problem? If it is do you know of any that work with AIW for a reasonable price that you have had success with or think would work out allright. Thank you for your input.

Have a good day!

Randy

[LanEvo7]

Are you using the onboard sound card?

[vmesquita287]

I have this Motherboard and had bad sound capture (noise and distortion) till I gave up the onboard audio and picked a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1...

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[NightWing]

I had almost the same problem with the onboard sound with a Asus Terminator computer. It was getting overloaded.

I know you have already tried but you may want to set the record level to about 1/2 to 1/8 level and unplug anything from the Line Input. Record something and play back. If hiss then its a board problem. If not then its a overload.

Finally put a stereo 10k pot in series to reduce the level feeding into the Line Input port. Basically feed the source across the resistance and pulled from the wiper to feed the Line Input jack. Even with the level set low it took the pot to finaly limit it to a decent input level.

Have the same board and will be using as the upgrade to that same system and will try the same test described above. It may be a few days since I am overloaded and cant test right now.

Its a toss between a Live and a Audrey mp3+ card. Both are outstanding quite cards. Not tham much difference in price.

Good luck on the hunt!

[Richard_G]

I had the same setup, K7S5A and ATI AIW 128 pro. The hiss on the captured sound was only one of the numerous problems I had. All were well documented on the motherboard forums and I ended up curing all the problems by junking the motherboard and replacing it with a different model. Over the years I have built something like 40 computers and only ever had problems with 2 of them - both used K7S5A motherboards.

As someone else has on the bottom of there posts, in the world of digital video you get what you pay for. In this case, in the world of crap motherboards, you also get what you pay for! I'll never touch anything made by ECS again.

[txpharoah]

Keep the motherboard, but go in the BIOS and turn off EVERYTHING that is not in use, including the soundcard. Go get a REAL soundcard, even if its a cheap $15 PCI card. The onboard cards are great to play with, but crap to record with - that's the difference.

[racecar]

You guys are great, thanks for the advice. It is very much appreciated. I will try turning stuff off, I agree with the ecs posts, this motherboard is kinda crappy and I kinda thought it was the problem all along.

Will a cheap pci card work to record stuff, and if so do you know any names, I will look at the soundblasters in the meantime. I don't need any fancy surrond sound stuff, I just want to archive my tapes without that annoying static. Have a good day and thanks again

[txpharoah]

Will a cheap pci card work to record stuff, and if so do you know any names, I will look at the soundblasters in the meantime.

I've seen $12 Inland PCI soundcards do fine. I'd suggest a SoundBlaster, even the $30 ones. Audigy is nice, but not needed.

[racecar]

Thanks txpharoh

Would you recommend the Creative Lab Sound Blaster 128 PCI Sound Card , I see it on newegg now for like $22 which is fine. Somehow I thought they were much more.

Later!