Horrible Sound from VIA M10000

**TimmyB1979** · 03-09-2005, 10:42 PM

Just started putting together my carputer. I have the M10000 motherboard and am running XP Home SP2. I've been through 3 Windows re-installations, multiple drivers, and more googling than I can handle. THe problem I have is witth the sound output of the line out. I'm not expecting hi-fi but I'm having serious problems. All I can get is buzzing, changing the balance to one side does help a little. Do I have a bad motherboad? Any ideas. Thanks in advance.

Tim

**hcker2000** · 03-09-2005, 11:42 PM

Thats very odd because from what I have heard of mine they sound great. I would take a guess that it may be a bad board. Don't take my word alone wate for some more people to chime in on this.

**TimmyB1979** · 03-11-2005, 03:17 PM

That's what my googlin showed, what I'm experiencing is not typical. The sound is like the sound you hear when you touch two speaker wires together so maybe theres a short somewhere, tried checking for one with a multimeter but didn't really find one.

**wizardPC** · 03-11-2005, 03:19 PM

you checked your cables?

and your speakers?

**mxl4729** · 03-11-2005, 03:37 PM

ground loop. how are you powering the computer and were does the sound go after it comes out of the card. add a ground loop isolator and it shoudl clear everything up

**HostileJava** · 03-11-2005, 03:42 PM

Plug a set of known good headphones into the jack and see if the problem goes away. If it doesn't then I'd say send the board back.

**Bugbyte** · 03-11-2005, 11:27 PM

I have the same board and it sounds clear. The audiophiles don't like it but it sounds just fine to me. Try the headphone trick. If it sounds clear then YOU...HAVE...A....GROUNDLOOP.

Search terms: "groundloop" or "ground loop"

**martymoe** · 03-13-2005, 02:46 AM

i have an m10000 and i'm having the same problem it sounds terrible.. i finally gave up and put a usb sound card on it, (hoping somebody would figure out how to fix it..)
m2

**TimmyB1979** · 03-13-2005, 12:51 PM

Right now its powered by a Radio Shack CB power supply (13.8V) connected to a 200W snap-on DC-DC converter. My experience with ground loops in sound equipment has always been a subtle hum, not the static sound I'm experiencing. I'll look into it though. I've tried desktop speakers, headphones, and a FM transmitter, all have the same problems and work well on my laptop.

I really prefer to not go with a seperate sound card, I've used all my USB ports and want to save the PCI slot for a TV tuner. Thanks for the help everyone.

**Bugbyte** · 03-13-2005, 01:29 PM

Soooo...I've seen this sound problem mentioned several times recently but not before that. I'm wondering if there's a batch of bad Epia 10000's out there?

Did you check the via forums to see if others have reported this problem?