Sean Davis wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:42:01AM +0100, devis wrote:
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>>Sean Davis wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:41:18 +0100, Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@xtrmntr.org> 
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>>>>On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:32:04AM -0500, Brian Rose wrote:
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>>>>>The best way to solve this is to get a better sound card. Look for a
>>>>>lot of electrolytic caps (little "trash cans") on the board. Some of
>>>>>the _really_ nice boards pull their power from the power supply and
>>>>>not the PCI bus power rails.
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>>>>or get a USB sound card.
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>>>Since I've never shopped for a uaudio device before... do you think
>>>this: http://tinyurl.com/5262a will work well enough?
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>>As a personnal experience i would mention as well that specifically 
>>Creative cards do not play well with shared interrupts pci slots. I 
>>couldn't see anybody else mentionning this on the thread and sorry if i 
>>missed it.
>>My experiments are on one of my system, i run a triple sound card system 
>>that has a SBLive!5.1 pci ( emu10k1 chip ), a zoltrix pro6 ( cmipci-ch6 
>>chip ), and an als4000 pci. There are 5 pci slots on the machine. I 
>>always had interferences with other devices ( background noise from 
>>speakers on hard disks, click from mouse moves and all other annoyances 
>>mentionned ) and i agree the pc environment is hostile however i decide 
>>to get rid of the problem once and for all, put out my motherboard 
>>documentation and realised the irq sharing of the pci slots was 
>>described as so:
>>slot 1 and 3 : shared
>>slot 2 and 6 : shared
>>slot 4 : not shared
>>slot 5: not shared
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>>Note that yours may vary.
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>>I connected the creative sblive in the slot 4. Since ALL GONE. Perfect, 
>>no more clicks and rattles. I also have read on DVD mailing lists that 
>>creative cards do not play nice when on a shared pci slot.
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>>Hope this is relevant.
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Looking at the manual of your mobo there, 
http://www.asrock.com/Drivers/Manual/K7V88_UM.pdf (mind the slow server) 
i couldn't find any indication of it in it, it seems your bios does not 
allow you to change irqs of pci slots which is pretty annoying. That way 
you could have make sure the pci slot of the SBlive is in a reserved mode.
If that could be a pointer, Asrock are sub division of Asus therefore 
their internals should (pure supposition here) act more or less 
similary. I would myself change the card pci slot around and and 
recheck. Theres is always a 'best' slot for those cards on a given mobo.
Hope that helps.
-b