i have the combination of a creative sound card and an nforce4 motherboard. this crackling issue seems to have gone on for ages and from the recent search i did to find a solution to this problem, doesn't seem to be much out there - either that or i missed something.
has anyone experienced the same problem and found a solution or do i need to work round it and get a new sound card (not creative). if so, which one? as mainly most sound cards seem to be creative.
managed to sort it out. boot'd up using the vista dvd, formatted the drive using advanced option under custom install. this then did corrupt the bootup information and windows wouldn't start - used vista repair to resolve this. finally have an 100% 2 drive...at last!
had xp installed on hard drive c:. recently aquired vista 64bit and installed this on hard drive d:. i kept xp just to i could transfer all the data over and as a fallback incase i had any problems....so far, it's been ok, so i want to remove xp from the other drive. using diskmanagement i can see that a partition has be made (14meg) that i cannot remove or merge with the primary partition, and vista won't let me format through right clicking on the harddrive and click format.
one other reason that i'm a little worried is that when i had xp, i installed this on the drive that was labelled c:, after installing vista...the letters have been switched around, vista now lies on c: and xp lies on d:...so a little baffled as to what is going on....
yep, that is the motherboard. and yes, bios says i have 4096mb ram, but then follows that with installed 2560mb ram, so a little baffled with that one...
in bios setup i had to go to advanced-> cpu config. -> memory config. -> and enable hardware memory hole
seems to be now showing 4 gig, both in bios and in windows. one question i do still have is, when the pc starts up and bios is going through it's check, why does memory show as 4 gig and installed show as 2560? below is what bios says exactly.
find the manufacturures website, and exact location of the motherboard, and paste a link in here, I want to see this mother board, if you don't mind pasting me a link.MOCHIRON_MAN
cannot send you the direct link as the website doesn't have a specific url for the motherboard, it goes through some script i suppose.
i've uploaded the file and can be retrieved from the below link
2 of the 4 sticks has ddr-me written on it. i've checked online and can't see any confirmation on what the "me" part means.....is this something to take it to consideration?
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