Slow Sweep Still Not Fixed

[George]

If DirectX still won't hold it's settings after trying what Bryan suggested, you can go in through the back door.

Open CONTROL PANEL.

Open SOUNDS AND AUDIO DEVICES.

Open AUDIO.

Under SOUND PLAYBACK DEFAULT DEVICE open ADVANCED.

Open PERFORMANCE.

You can now change the audio hardware accellerator.

If it still won't hold the new setting, something is not right with the os, as Bryan indicated.

George

[flipper]

Went to Mfg's site and downloaded chipset driver, and video driver updates.
Also spent quite a bit of time online w/Toshiba Support. They cannot figure out problem. After updates no change in status.

I have been holding off downloading windows SP2 due to many problems associated with it. I do see however that my windows update did download about 6 files about 3 days after the problem started that say SP2 on them. I'm not sure if I has anything to do with the problem.

Short of doing a complete restore it appears there are no other fixes available.

I have narrowed the workaround down to the sound acceleration setting in directx. No matter what the setting says after I boot up the sweep is not in sync. All I have to do is go in and move the aceleration setting to any other setting and Hoster sweeps perfectly. If I reboot for whatever reason it will not hold settings. I have found that the directdraw disable does not make any changes to the sweep.

I have a new portable pc coming from you folks today so I will be able to do a complete restore on the laptop without interrupting my show schedule.

flipper

[jsmith]

I'm having the same problem as Flipper. Sound playback default device is a Realtek AC97 audio device. I tried changing through DirectX and through the control panel. If I start Hoster or reboot the computer it resets the hardware acceleration to full. What can I do to fix this?

[George]

Con't know if this wlould work or not, but may be worth a try.

After setting the Sound Hardware Accellerator to where the sweep is correct, try creating a restore point before doing anything else.

One would think that would lock in the settings.

George

[jsmith]

How do you do that? I can't find an opton to create a restore point. I also cannot get the sweep correct. As soon as I start Hoster it resets the acceleration. BTW thanks for helping. John

[George]

Boy, just noticed my typos...grrr.
With XP to set a restore point, at the top of any windows screen(my documents,c:, etc),click on HELP, then HELP AND SUPPORT CENTER, then under PICK A TASK, open UNDO CHANGES WITH SYSTEM RESTORE, then click
CREATE A RESTORE POINT, then NEXT, then give it a name, anything you'll recognize will do, then click CREATE.

Since you're having the problem you are, immediately after setting the audio hardware accellerator down a notch(to the left), I'd do this. Don't open Hoster to check it out until you've done this first. If you see some, but not full improvement, you can repeat the process and move the accellerator another notch.

This is a wierd problem. Windows is supposed to hold the settings.

I don't know if this will cure it or not, but setting a restore point is supposed to lock in all the p.c.settings.

Before doing this you might want to delete any unwanted programs, files, temp internet files, etc,etc, and perhaps even do a disc defrag if you haven't done one in a while. Then you'd be starting fresher.

Hope this helps,
George

[jsmith]

Tried it without the defraging. Didn't work. I'll defrag and reboot and try it again.