sound problems after upgrade to 4 gig of memory
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I maxed out my memory of my desktop and now any video I play has all sorts of sound distortion or static on it. I've updated the bios and every driver I can think of. I'm guessing that it has something to do with allocated PCI memory being in conflict with real memory, but my BIOS doesn't let me change allocated PCI memory, only AGP memory. I've moved the audidy 2 card to different slots and changed bios settings to Plug and play OS and still nothing has worked. Any advice would be great! thanks
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I maxed out my memory of my desktop and now any video I play has all sorts of sound distortion or static on it. I've updated the bios and every driver I can think of. I'm guessing that it has something to do with allocated PCI memory being in conflict with real memory, but my BIOS doesn't let me change allocated PCI memory, only AGP memory. I've moved the audidy 2 card to different slots and changed bios settings to Plug and play OS and still nothing has worked. Any advice would be great! thanks
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I maxed out my memory of my desktop and now any video I play has all sorts of sound distortion or static on it. I've updated the bios and every driver I can think of. I'm guessing that it has something to do with allocated PCI memory being in conflict with real memory, but my BIOS doesn't let me change allocated PCI memory, only AGP memory. I've moved the audidy 2 card to different slots and changed bios settings to Plug and play OS and still nothing has worked. Any advice would be great! thanks
The problem is that - on a 32 Bit OS - your memory adresses and PCI addresses conflict (as you already recognized). You should see if there is a "Memory Hole"-Option in your BIOS and toggle it. Additionally, there might be a "Remap memory" option, which you could also activate. Otherwise, the only thing you can do is downgrading to 2 GB. Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
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The problem is that - on a 32 Bit OS - your memory adresses and PCI addresses conflict (as you already recognized). You should see if there is a "Memory Hole"-Option in your BIOS and toggle it. Additionally, there might be a "Remap memory" option, which you could also activate. Otherwise, the only thing you can do is downgrading to 2 GB. Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
thanks everyone. :) I upgraded to the lastest bios and there is no such option. :( How can intel say that their mobo supports 4 gb without telling me that it doesn't work correctly? I might be able to understand the oversight on a server board, but on a desktop mobo like this one? They mention what SHOULD happen it in their documentation, but don't tell me how to configure it or address it or anything. Maybe this is all automagical and there is a probelm with the sound card not telling the BIOS that it needs some more memory or something. who knows. Thanks again everyone. "The D875PBZ utilizes 4GB of addressable system memory. Typically the address space that is allocated for PCI add-in cards, AGP aperture, BIOS (firmware hub), and chipset overhead resides above the top of DRAM (total system memory). On a system that has 4GB of system memory installed, it is not possible to use all of the installed memory due to system address space being allocated for other system critical functions. These functions include the following: - Memory mapped I/O that is dynamically allocated for PCI and AGP cards - AGP aperture - APIC and chipset overhead (approx 18MB) - BIOS/firmware hub (approc 2MB) The amount of installed memory that can be used will vary based on add-in cards and BIOS settings. For example, if the PCI cards are requesting 200MB of system memory and the AGP aperture is set to 256 MB in the BIOS setup program, there will be approximately 3.54 GB of memory that can be accessed . . . All installed memory can be used when there is no overlap of system addresses. For example, all of the system address space can be utilized on a system that has 2GB of installed system memory, AGP aperture set for 256 MB, and the PCI cards are addressing 200MB of system address space."